indicates Michael Francklin convinced the Mi’kmaq to continue their tradition at St. Aspinquid's Chapel. But in 1786, evidence of Mi’kmaq support for patriots in the American Revolution alarmed the local authorities and further celebration of the old feast was forbidden. Battle at St. Aspinquid's Chapel Tradition indicates that at St. Aspinquid's Chapel in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Lahave Chief Paul Laurent and a party of eleven invited Shubenacadie Chief Jean-Baptiste Cope and five others to St. Aspinquid's Chapel to negotiate peace with the British. Chief Paul Laurent had just arrived in Halifax after surrendering to the British at Fort Cumberland on 29 February 1760. In early March 1760, the two parties met and engaged in armed conflict. Chief Larent's party killed Cope and two others, while Chief Cope's party killed five of the British supporters. Shortly after Cope's death, Mi'kmaq chiefs signed a peace treaty in Halifax on 10 March 1760. Chief Laurent signed on behalf of the Lahave tribe and a new chief, Claude Rene, signed on behalf of the Shubenacadie tribe. (During this time of surrender and treaty making, tensions among the various factions who were allied against the British were evident. For example, a few months after the death of Cope, the Mi'kmaq militia and Acadian militias made the rare decisions to continue to fight in the Battle of Restigouche despite losing the support of the French priests who were encouraging surrender.) Burial ground Some of the notable people interred in the burial ground are Thury (3 June 1699), the first recorded burial in Halifax; Shubenacadie Chief Jean Baptiste Cope (1760); and Halifax Chief Paul the last Mi’kmaq chief of the Chebucto tribe. The Duc d'Anville Expedition arrived with the crew dying of typhus, which spread to and devastated the Mi’kmaq who were at Chebucto, many of whom are interred at the burial ground (1746). References Endnotes Texts Don Awalt.The Mi’kmaq and Point Pleasant Park. 2004 Eckstrom, Fannie Hardy. “History of Maine, Chapter III”: Bangor, 1919 Raddall, Thomas H. "The Feast of St. Aspinquid": Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 1, no. 1, March 1971, p. 1–9 Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. "The Old Man Told Us" Nimbus Publishing Limited, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1991. J. Dennis Robinson. White man invented St. Aspinquid An old Indian Feast, Sketches and traditions of the Northwest Arm (1908), p. 165 Saint Aspenquid of Agamenticus. Samuel Drake New England Legends and Folk lore in Prose