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BY DEVIN GREGORY AND AARON RICHARDSON |
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Some people say he was free others say he was a
salve to the governor of port royal but some just don’t know. |
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He was the first African to set foot on Canadian soil |
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Mathieu Da Costa spoke French, Dutch,Portguese
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Was born in the Azores and was an interpreter. |
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He served as an interpreter between the French
and the Mic Macs. |
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He was also a navigator of the African descent. |
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He was a former Portuguese slave in the
sixteenth century among an expedition from France to Port Royal and Quebec before 1603/5. |
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No one really knew what Mathieu Da Costa really
looked like. |
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The first picture we got looks a lot different
than the second. |
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The conditions were snowing & cold in the
winter |
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You had to build your own house with very few
supplies.Around winter the people in the village have a GOOD CHEER party
that is for getting their hopes up because the times are bad.It has a lot
of food and clean water.So it makes the people in the village feel better
about themselves. |
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We got are pictures from Google image.com |
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Info from the paper the teacher gave us and at
http://www.blackhistorysociety.ca/mathieu%20Costa%20a_j_b%20johnston.htm. |
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