by Elder, Dr. Daniel N. Paul, CM , ONS, MMNN Contributor
Chief Lawrence Paul.
Chief Lawrence, the 10th of fourteen children, and nine of my sisters and brothers were born in New Brunswick, I and four of my sisters were born in Nova Scotia, Shubenacadie Indian Reserve, now known as Indian Brook.
The reason Lawrence and many of my siblings were born in New Brunswick was that after our Father, William G. Paul, and Mother, Sarah Agnes, nee Noel, were married in Truro, while residing in Millbrook, decided, along with many other Mi’kmaq, that perhaps they would find a more viable means to alleviate their poverty existence in that Province, which worked quite well until the 1929 Recession hit and most people where being laid off by the early 1930s.
My father was among thos ...
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