Location: Halifax Origins: Status: Inactive Registration: Cost: History: Incorporated in 2003, folded by 2005. One of their directors is spokesperson for 7 orgs in NS as of 2018. # of Members: Connections: Contact: Supporting Docs Court Cases
Location: Origins: 1999 Status: Inactive Registration: Cost: History: Posts on its website between 2002-2009. Starting in 2004, starts talking about “Acadian-Métis” on its website. Headed by Wendy Annand. Incorporated in 2004, folded in 2009. # of Members: Connections: Member of Canadian Métis Council, based in Hamilton. Members organizations also included Annapolis Valley Métis Council, Yarmouth & District Métis Council, Eldawik Métis Council (Halifax), South West Nova Scotia Métis Council, Kespu’kwitk Métis Council (Tusket), We’kopekwitk Métis Council (Truro) Contact: http://www.geocities.com:80/nsmetis/culture.html…
Location: Origins: Status: Inactive Registration: Cost: History: Inactive, was at its peak around 2007-2009. Connected with Lloyd Fournier, former “chief.” # of Members: Connections: Contact: Supporting Docs Court Cases
Location: Tusket, NS Origins: 2018 Status: Active Registration: Cost: History: No trace online. Only trace is in NS registry of corporate bodies. # of Members: Connections: Contact: Supporting Docs Court Cases
Location: Mineville, NS Origins: June 2018 Status: Active Registration: Cost: History: Founded by Greg Burke and 5 other directors in 2017. Offshoot of the Bras d’Or Métis Nation/Unama’ki Voyageur Métis Nation. # of Members: Connections: Bras d’Or Métis Nation/Unama’ki Voyageur Métis Nation. Contact: Supporting Docs Court Cases
Location: Little Dover, NS Origins: 2006 Status: Active Registration: Any Indigenous ancestor works for membership. Certified genealogy and DNA ancestry test through 23andme (no longer required as of 01/17). Cost: $75 application fee $25 per year. History: # of Members: Connections: Signed a “treaty” with Council of the First Métis People in Canada in 2018 Founding member of Nova Scotia Métis Alliance on July 13, 2018. Contact: http://www.easternshoremetis.com Supporting Docs Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquos, “Newsletter,” Summer 2018. Court Cases
Location: Yarmouth, NS Origins: Incorporated in 1999. Status: Active Registration: Claim to be Wampanoag descendants Cost: History: Has had 3 other names that are different versions of the current one. # of Members: 3,000 members in 2010 Connections: Contact: Facebook page Canada. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples. 1st. sess. 41st Parliament. Evidence. November 6 2012. Court Cases R. v. Babin
Location: Located in Yarmouth, NS Origins: Status: Active Registration: Any ancestry will do. “There is NO blood quantum required. We do not see ourselves as a percentage of our Native heritage, but as being 100% Metis Aboriginals and nothing else. Our members come from all walks of life and heritage – Mi’kmaq, Cree, Ojibwa, Blackfoot, Sioux or any other Native peoples. What joins our Metis people together is our commonalities, our inability to walk in either Indian or White…
Location: Yarmouth, NS. Origins: Started formal incorporation in 2008, as response to Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) “Powley Implementation Project” Status: Active Registration: “The AAMS will accept as a Regular member, any individual over the age of sixteen (16) years, who resides in Nova Scotia and beyond, whose families originated in mainland Nova Scotia, who self-identifies as Métis with an ancestral connection to a historical Acadian community, who provides genealogical proof of an ancestral connection to Acadian Métis heritage…
Location: Clark’s Harbour, NS Origins: Incorporated in 2003 as Sou’West Nova Métis. Status: Active Registration: Cost: $100 first-time fee $20 annually thereafter. History: Also known as Subsachemship of Nova Scotia Wampanoag Claim to be Wampanoag descendants. Are British Loyalists who were granted land by British authorities in Nova Scotia in late 1700s. They immigrated from New England. # of Members: Connections: “Treaty” partner of Metis Federation of Canada Contact: http://nswampanoag-nsmetis.org Supporting Docs Canada. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Aboriginal…