A Mi’kmaw hereditary chief’s missing jacket has been found after an extensive search of the Montreal airport where it was misplaced.
Adorned with a medal presented to him for the Order of Canada, along with the King Charles III Coronation Medal and the Queen Elizabeth Platinum Jubilee Medal, Chief Stephen Augustine’s jacket also features a rich representation of his family’s story.
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The jacket is a replica of the regalia gifted to British army Capt. Henry Dunn O’Halloran by the Mi’kmaq in the 1840s, and was created by his late ancestor.
After Augustine lost the one-of-a-kind garment somewhere in the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal on Nov. 10, he pleaded with the public to help him track it down.
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Augustine told The Canadian Press over the weekend the jacket is a treasure and that its loss felt like losing a family member.
He said the news that the jacket is being returned to him came as a great “relief.”
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