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Tue 06 Jun 2009NUI Galway to repatriate Maliseet canoe to Canadians
NUI GALWAY is to repatriate a 180-year-old birch-bark canoe, built by native Americans and acquired by an Irish soldier serving with British imperial forces in Canada.
The Maliseet canoe, which is believed to be the oldest of its type in the world, is to be donated by the university to the “Canadian people”, following an appeal for its return by a native American community in new Brunswick.
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