These census posts are part of a larger project to identify the surnames that have appeared among Indigenous, Metis and Mixed-heritage people over the past few hundred years across what is now Canada. Johannes Becker m. Marie David (1 Sep 1766). Davis | Metis, Assin., BC, Cayuga, Iroq...
Take Reford as an example: in 1918, her uncle, Lord Mount Stephen, who had retired as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway and moved to England, gave her his summer salmon-fishing camp on the Gasp& eacute; Peninsula. People who know gardening come from as far away as Europe and ...
we’re standing on our own as Metis people yet we pay billions in taxes in this country and we have to fend for ourselves because of this political football of who’s responsible for us.”
Blakeney places Romanow’s people in 4 of the 7 positions. Blakeney did not protect himself with a group of loyalists. He had to rebuild the machinery of government which Thatcher had allowed to decay. He hired civil servants that were not necessarily partisan like Douglas ...
There I met three women from the Manitoba Metis Federation who had obtained a grant to teach people who worked with their children.; Although beadwork and traditional arts were new to me, sewing clothes and making decorative objects for the home were not. One summer while we were visiting ...