Chief finds missing jacket adorned with honours, family history in Montreal airport

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OTTAWA - A Mi'kmaw hereditary chief's missing jacket has been found after an extensive search of the Montreal airport where it was misplaced.

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OTTAWA – A Mi’kmaw hereditary chief’s missing jacket has been found after an extensive search of the Montreal airport where it was misplaced.

Adorned with a medal presented to him for the Order of Canada, along with the King Charles III Coronation Medal and the Queen Elizabeth Platinum Jubilee Medal, Chief Stephen Augustine’s jacket also features a rich representation of his family’s story.

The jacket is a replica of the regalia gifted to British army Capt. Henry Dunn O’Halloran by the Mi’kmaq in the 1840s, and was created by his late ancestor.

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon stands with Hereditary Chief Stephen Augustine, from Elsipogtog First Nation, N.B., after investing him in the Order of Canada during a National Indigenous Peoples Day ceremony at Rideau Hall, in Ottawa, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon stands with Hereditary Chief Stephen Augustine, from Elsipogtog First Nation, N.B., after investing him in the Order of Canada during a National Indigenous Peoples Day ceremony at Rideau Hall, in Ottawa, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

After Augustine lost the one-of-a-kind garment somewhere in the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal on Nov. 10, he pleaded with the public to help him track it down.

Augustine told The Canadian Press over the weekend the jacket is a treasure and that its loss felt like losing a family member.

He said the news that the jacket is being returned to him came as a great “relief.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 17, 2025.

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