Noel Bear (died 1907) was a Maliseet hunter, trapper, guide, and basket-maker who was identified by a variety of first (Noil, Newell, Newal) and last (Bair, Muin, Aubin?) names. It is known that he married in 1851 and died in 1907 on the Tobique River, New Brunswick, Canada.

Noel Bear is known to history from a petition signed by the Penobscot at Old Town, Maine in 1831. He was active during the "Aroostook War" of (1838–39) when he was a hunter for the soldiers at Fort Fairfield in Maine. He appears on census lists at the Tobique Indian Reserve beginning in 1853.

Noel Bear

External links

Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Maliseet people

Artists from New Brunswick

19th-century births

1907 deaths

Noel Bear