Gabriel Acquin

[1] In 1847, the executors of a Loyalist estate invited Acquin to settle on land at what was to become the St. Mary's Indian Reserve, in York County, New Brunswick.

Apparently, as a result of that encounter, Acquin later received an invitation to the United Kingdom to be one of Canada's entries in the International Fisheries Exhibition, held in London in 1883.

He made the journey, taking with him a canoe and beaded clothing, and set up a wigwam near ponds at South Kensington.

In London, he interacted socially with Prince Albert Edward, other members of the royal family, and officers with whom he became acquainted back at home.

[1] Acquin was seen by many as a symbol of both romanticism as it related to the native population of Canada and the assimilation of Aboriginal Canadians into European culture.