Two Navy members linked to Canada Day incident at Indigenous ceremony
HALIFAX — A spokesperson for the military has confirmed that two members of the Navy were involved in a confrontation at an Indigenous ceremony in Halifax on Canada Day.
The servicemen are believed to be among five men that appear in a filmed encounter that occurred at a ceremony around a statue of Halifax’s controversial founder on Saturday.
Organizer Rebecca Moore said dozens of people were gathered around the statue of Edward Cornwallis as Chief Grizzly Mamma, who is originally from British Columbia, shaved her head in a ceremony to mourn the atrocities committed against Indigenous Peoples.
Cornwallis, as governor of Nova Scotia, founded Halifax in 1749, and soon after issued a bounty on Mi’kmaq scalps in response to an attack on colonists.