Elsie Basque, nee Charles, was born to Margaret Labrador and Joe Charles at Hectanooga, Digby County, on May 12, 1916. She was the first Mi’kmaq to earn a teacher's certificate from the Provincial Normal College in Truro. Photo: November 1999

Click on the Link to read a Halifax Herald column I wrote honouring Elsie: October 6, 1995
http://www.danielnpaul.com/Col/1995/ElsieBasque-MicmacPioneer.html