1. Jean Baptiste Cope was known as Major Cope, a title he was probably given from the French military, the highest rank given to Mi'kmaq.
13 Facts About Jean-Baptiste Cope
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Jean-Baptiste Cope was the sakamaw of the Mi'kmaq people of Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.
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Jean-Baptiste Cope maintained close ties with the Acadians along the Bay of Fundy, speaking French and being Catholic.
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Jean-Baptiste Cope is perhaps best known for signing the Treaty of 1752 with the British, which was upheld in the Supreme Court of Canada in 1985 and is celebrated every year along with other treaties on Treaty Day.
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Jean-Baptiste Cope was born in Port Royal and the oldest child of six.
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Jean-Baptiste Cope tried to set up peace treaties, but failed.
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Jean-Baptiste Cope eventually gave up, resigned his commission and left the colony.
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Jean-Baptiste Cope tried to get other Mi'kmaq chiefs in Nova Scotia to agree to the treaty but was unsuccessful.
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Shortly after, Jean-Baptiste Cope joined Le Loutre again and worked to convince Acadians to join the exodus from peninsula Nova Scotia.
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Jean-Baptiste Cope was probably among the Mi'kmaq and the Algonquian allies who helped Acadians evade capture during the St John River Campaign.
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Jean-Baptiste Cope is reported to have gone to Miramichi, New Brunswick, in the area where French Officer Boishebert had his refugee camp for Acadians escaping the deportation.
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Jean-Baptiste Cope is likely to have died in the region before 1760.
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The descendants of Jean-Baptiste Cope gave Jean-Baptiste Cope's gun to the Citadel Hill museum of Parks Canada.