The changing identity of the community of the St. Augustine, Province of Quebec, Canada
In 1965 I was involved in a community study of the village of St. Augustine which looked like a Euro-Canadian English-speaking community whose members had a diversity of origins: English, French Canadian, Irish, Jersey and a possibility of a hidden Inuit ancestry. Thirty years later, I have done a thorough genealogical research which proved that at that time half of the community members had two couples as their ancestors: one full blood Inuit and one half-blood. A few years after the 2003 Powley decision by the Supreme court of Canada concerning the hunting rights of a Metis community, I prepare an expert report for a court case concerning members of the St. Augustine community which had been arrested and fined for fishing illegally by Canadian fisheries officers. Unable to have those rights recognized by the Government of Canada, some leaders of the community decided to claim full Inuit Aboriginal rights and hired a lawyers' firm to defend these rights and to work on a new approach for their claims. The content of my paper will be threefold: 1) a presentation of the evolution of the ethnic identity of the St. Augustine community: 2) the Inuit culture heritage and the importance of fishing as the main economic activity; 3) a link with similar claims of Inuit aboriginal rights by communities of Southern and Central Labrador.
Keywords
Communaute de St. Augustine,
Euro-Canadiens,
Metis,
heritage cul-turel inuit,
communaute Nunamit,
organisation NunatuKavutAuthors
| Charest Paul | Universite Laval | |
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