A new report says there is no evidence that Thomas Lagarde dit St. Jean, a man born in the early 1800s near Montreal, was in fact Algonquin.
This is significant, because more than 1,000 Canadians claim to be Algonquin because Lagarde is one of their ancestors.
They are among the approximately 8,000 members of the Algonquins of Ontario (AOO), an organization on the verge of concluding a billion dollar land claim agreement with the governments of Canada and Ontario.
