By Rosemary Godin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cape Breton Post The following condensed information about how the Mi’kmaq of Sydney lost their traditional land on Kings Road has been taken from a document found on the Membertou First Nation website called: “Kings Road Reserve — 100 years Later — The Journey On … The Story of Membertou’s Reconciliation.” In 1877, a wealthy lawyer and member of Parliament named Joseph A. Gillies, purchased the land next to the reserve known as Kun’tewiktuk on Kings Road in Sydney and started a campaign against the Mi’kmaq of Kings Road. For the next 40 years, he and the Sydney municipality tried to force the Department of Indian Affairs to remove the Mi’kmaq from their Kings Road home to somewhere outside the city limits and…
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