John Baptist Denny, Jr. (c. 1851-1918) was the last hereditary grand chief of the
Grand Council (Mi'kmaq)
The Grand Council (Santé Mawiómi or Mi'kmawey Mawio'mi) is the normal senior level of government for the Mi'kmaq, based in present-day Canada, until passage of the Indian Act in 1876, requiring elected governments. After the Indian Act, the Gran ...
, from 1881 to 1918.
Commemoration
On 28 January 2019, Temma Frecker, a Nova Scotia teacher at The Booker School, was awarded the
Governor General's History Award for her class' proposal to build a statue of Denny in Cornwallis Park. Her proposal was to include the existing
Edward Cornwallis statue among three other statues of
Acadian
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Noël Doiron Noël Doiron (Port-Royal, 1684 – December 13, 1758) was a leader of the Acadians, renowned for his leadership during the Deportation of the Acadians. Doiron was deported on a vessel named the ''Duke William'' (1758). The ''Duke William'' sank, ki ...
,
Black Nova Scotian Viola Desmond and Mi'kmaq Chief John Denny Jr. The four statutes would be positioned as if in a conversation with each other, discussing their accomplishments and struggles.
References
History of Nova Scotia
1850s births
1918 deaths
Canadian Mi'kmaq people
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