A Mi'kmaq camp

A Mi'kmaq camp at Sydney, Cape Breton, N.S. in 1857.
Mi'kmaq families were still travelling back and forth between Cape Breton and Newfoundland in the middle of the 19th century.

"Micmac camp. Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia" photographed by Paul-Émile Miot in 1857. Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada/coll 1995-084/PA-194632.
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