 Noel Jeddore appointed his son as Chief in the 1920s but his son refused.According to American anthropologist and University of Pennsylvania professor Frank Speck, one of his older Mi'kmaq informants described in detail how the Mi'kmaq made the sixty mile voyage across the Cabot Strait between Cape Ray on the south-western coast of Newfoundland and Cape North, Cape Breton in two days by birch bark canoes.According to the Miawpukek First Nation, Jeddore said