First Metis Families of Quebec Vol. 3 Martin Prevost and Marie Olivier Sylvestre

First Metis Families of Quebec Vol. 3 Martin Prevost and Marie Olivier Sylvestre
Author: Gail Morin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2017-11-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781979833486

Martin Prevost or Provost arrived in Quebec before 1639. He was settler and farmed near Beauport, Quebec. He married on 3 November 1644 at Quebec. Marie-Olivier, was the daughter of Roch Manithabewich, a Huron (or maybe an Algonquin) Indian, and adopted daughter of Olivier Letardif. Together they had eight children whose descendants continue to the 21st century. Martin Prevost remained in Quebec. His wife Marie-Olivier died on 10 September 1665 when her youngest child was only 3 months old. He married Marie d'Abancourt two months later. They had no known children. Marie d'Abancourt was the widow of Jean Jolliet and widow of Godfroy Guillot dit Lavallee. She died between 1678 and 1681. Martin remained unmarried until his death in 1691 at Beauport (Quebec). His surviving children and grandchildren were all living near Beauport. They were farmers, laborers and merchants and appear to have assimilated into the non-Indian culture. In the seventh generation the Prevost descendants are living in the Oregon Territory, Alberta, and Manitoba and have once again married mixed blood wives. Notable descendents of Roch Manitouabeouich, father-in-law of Martin Prevost are Jean Baptiste Lepine, Stephen Liberty, Louis Provo, Joseph Salois, and Joseph St.Germain.

Eastern Métis

Eastern Métis
Author: Michel Bouchard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1793605440

In Eastern Métis, Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette, and Siomonn Pulla demonstrate the historical and social evidence for the origins and continued existence of Métis communities across Ontario, Quebec, and the Canadian Maritimes as well as the West. Contributors to this edited collection explore archival and historical records that challenge narratives which exclude the possibility of Métis communities and identities in central and eastern Canada. Taking a continental rhizomatic approach, this book provides a rich and nuanced view of what it means to be Métis.

The Audacity of His Enterprise

The Audacity of His Enterprise
Author: M. Max Hamon
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0228000092

Shining a spotlight on the life, vision, and cultivation of one of Canada's most influential historical figures.

One of the Family

One of the Family
Author: Brenda Macdougall
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0774859121

In recent years there has been growing interest in identifying the social and cultural attributes that define the Metis as a distinct people. In this groundbreaking study, Brenda Macdougall employs the concept of wahkootowin � the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values interconnectedness � to trace the emergence of a Metis community in northern Saskatchewan. Wahkootowin describes how relationships worked and helps to explain how the Metis negotiated with local economic and religious institutions while nurturing a society that emphasized family obligation and responsibility. This innovative exploration of the birth of Metis identity offers a model for future research and discussion.

Bois-Brûlés

Bois-Brûlés
Author: Michel Bouchard
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0774862351

We think of Métis as having exclusively Prairie roots. Quebec doesn’t recognize a historical Métis community, and the Métis National Council contests the existence of any Métis east of Ontario. Quebec residents who seek recognition as Métis under the Canadian Constitution therefore face an uphill legal and political battle. Who is right? Bois-Brûlés examines archival and ethnographic evidence to piece together a riveting history of Métis in the Outaouais region. Scottish and French-Canadian fur traders and Indigenous women established themselves with their Bois-Brûlé children in the unsurveyed lands of western Quebec in the early nineteenth century. As the fur trade declined, these communities remained. This controversial work, previously available only in French, challenges head-on two powerful nationalisms – Métis and Québécois – that see Quebec Métis as “race-shifting” individuals. The authors provide a nuanced analysis of the historical basis for a distinctly Métis identity that can be traced all the way to today.

Distorted Descent

Distorted Descent
Author: Darryl Leroux
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0887555942

Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined “Indigenous” identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi-generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response. Rather, it is about white, French-descendant people discovering an Indigenous ancestor born 300 to 375 years ago through genealogy and using that ancestor as the sole basis for an eventual shift into an “Indigenous” identity today. After setting out the most common genealogical practices that facilitate race shifting, Leroux examines two of the most prominent self-identified “Indigenous” organizations currently operating in Quebec. Both organizations have their origins in committed opposition to Indigenous land and territorial negotiations, and both encourage the use of suspect genealogical practices. Distorted Descent brings to light to how these claims to an “Indigenous” identity are then used politically to oppose actual, living Indigenous peoples, exposing along the way the shifting politics of whiteness, white settler colonialism, and white supremacy.

First Metis Families of Quebec 1622-1748

First Metis Families of Quebec 1622-1748
Author: Gail Morin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2017-11-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781979829908

First in a series of Metis Families in Quebec. Metis are the children of a French Canadian man and an Native American woman. If the husband married again to a non-native woman, those children are not included. Fifty-six metis families have been identified between the years 1628 and 1748. Three generations of those families are included in this second edition.