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03-17-2005, 02:14 PM
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Micmac tribe arrow head
From the land of the Bluenose....getting slow at work so going through my forum to some old posts. This little goodie was found in Oakfield Park where there is a great little swimming hole. At one time this area was one massive hay farm and on land digs have found a few NS tokens circa 1832 to 1840. Had a newbie , Johnny White Pail out with me one day and while digging a penny in the picnic area this popped out. It now resides in a collection of Debbie on the Lucky Dan's Forum...doesn't shineso no interest to this bouy.
http://www.lonestartreasure.com/pics/pic582.jpg Not sure of the real spelling of the tribe but is close to this: Maqtqak. One interesting legend about this tribe, concerns the chief's daughter who had taken up with a British soldier who had broken her heart. The chief got the tribal medicine man to put a curse on the bridge between Halifax and Dartmouth, the route used by the soldier to come visit the lady and throughtout our history this bridge has collapsed and rebuilt only to burn. When a modern steel suspension bridge ( MacDonald) was built the premiere of the province had a Maqtqak medicine man take away the curse...bridge is still standing with a second bridge now spanning the narrows near Bedford Basin. It is roughly between these bridges where around 1917 the Imo and Mont Blanc collided in the harbour causing the biggest man made explosion up till the dropping of the atomic bomb by the Americans in WW11. 
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03-17-2005, 05:19 PM
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Interesting story and cool point! Thanks for sharing
Pat
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03-19-2005, 11:22 AM
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great story
 looking fwd to many more of these wounderful tales.
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03-20-2005, 06:48 PM
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yo Tom
From the land of the Bluenose...thanks!
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03-21-2005, 12:43 PM
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I am surprised you dont care
more about your countrys pre-history Leslie. You seem very well versed on it's moderen history. That is your choice though. HH
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03-21-2005, 05:14 PM
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yo Tom...re NS history
From the land of the Bluenose...hard to find that prehistory stuff. Oldest settlement here was the French at Port Royal in the lowe 1600's. It is a sad fact that before the Europeans landed here there is not too much information especial about the Mac'qat. Rumor I have been trying to research is that prior to the French a Spanish gallon had come into Halifax Harbour and made it's way into Bedfors Basin only to sink....no documentation so far. Problem with that is where it supposedly sank a rive runs into the basin and the silt is a mile deep so I'mtold and no one has discovered anything.
Just in the last decade in Newfoundland where everyone believes Cabot was the first to visit in 1534 they now have proof of viking visitations...who nows! Know any good links I could try?
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