He was charged in Inverness County, Cape Breton, with possession of muskrat and fox pelts, in violation of the provincial Lands and Forests Act.

The court also indicated that there was not enough evidence uncovered at that time to determine if the treaty was terminated by subsequent hostilities.

[4] In August 1993, in Antigonish, Donald Marshall, Jr. (who was from Cape Breton) caught 463 pounds of eels and sold them for $800 as part of a commercial fishery.

[4] The Crown's expert historian Stephen Patterson dismantled the validity of the Treaty of 1752 that was used to support Marshall's case.

The Province of Nova Scotia granted the late Grand Chief Gabriel Sylliboy a posthumous free pardon.