The Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1726

On June 4, 1726, Mi’kmaw, Wəlastəkokewiyik, and Peskətəmohkatewey leaders gathered at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, to ratify a treaty with the British Crown.

The Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1726 was signed on the grounds of what is now Fort Anne National Historic Site.

This Treaty was based on a treaty negotiated in Boston in 1725. It sought to end years of hostilities in the Atlantic region and to establish a relationship of peaceful coexistence for the future.

Between 1725 and 1779, Northeast North American Indigenous Peoples and the British Crown made a series of agreements known as the Peace and Friendship Treaties. The Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1726 played an important role in this process. It served as the basis for future negotiations and treaties in the 18th century, and it laid the foundation for modern Crown-Indigenous relations in Eastern Canada.

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• Peace and Friendship Treaties
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