Pierre Basquet (

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

1841–52) was, most likely, a

Maliseet The Wolastoqiyik, (, also known as the Maliseet or Malecite () are an Algonquian-speaking First Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy. They are the Indigenous people of the Wolastoq ( Saint John River) valley and its tributaries. Their terri ...

by birth who became part of the

Mi'kmaq The Mi'kmaq (also ''Mi'gmaq'', ''Lnu'', ''Mi'kmaw'' or ''Mi'gmaw''; ; , and formerly Micmac) are an Indigenous group of people of the Northeastern Woodlands, native to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Bru ...

community in the Restigouche area. Basquet was involved in work with

Moses Henry Perley Moses Henry Perley (31 December 1804 – 17 August 1862) was a lawyer and entrepreneur in colonial New Brunswick. Biography Born in Maugerville, Sunbury County, Perley received his primary school education in Saint John. In 1829, he married J ...

who was New Brunswick's commissioner of Indian affairs. He is chiefly remembered in history for the embarrassment he caused British authorities and the lieutenant governor of

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on two trips that he made to England.

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* 19th-century First Nations people Canadian Mi'kmaq people Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown People from Restigouche County, New Brunswick {{Canada-bio-stub