Frederick McLeod, son of George McLeod and Isabelle McBean, was born on October 9th, 1893, into the vibrant and historic Métis community at Moose Factory. In 1905, when Frederick was at the impressionable age of thirteen, his father, George, was one of six Métis of Moose Factory, “born & brought up in the country”, to sign a petition to the government on behalf of their families and communities for “that scrip has been granted to the Halfbreeds of the North West Territory”. A

Edward Cyrus Richards, the Métis son of Reverend Edward Richards Sr. and Jane Jones, was born on June 14, 1887, near James Bay. A descendant of the Favell family, Edward worked as a clerk and was living at the Fort Hope Post on the Albany River before being conscripted during the First World War and forced to join the 1st Depot Battalion in June 1918. Edward's departure for Europe was delayed just one month after he joined his battalion when he was hospitalized in Port Arthur

George Harvey was born on December 16, 1856 at Michipicoten on Lake Superior to a Métis mother, Jane Flett, and Scottish Hudson Bay Company employee, Alexander Harvey.  The next year, the Harvey family moved north to Moose Factory on James Bay, where the young George spent many of his formative years deeply engrained within the region’s bustling fur trade economy and growing Métis community.  In 1870, when George was just 13 years old, he was sent to Stromness in Scotland’s O

Charlotte Turner was born in Moose Factory, in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s (HBC) Rupert’s Land territory, on or about July 11, 1828....

The Hudson Bay Company’s Michipicoten Post on Lake Superior was a strategically important fur trade hub, located halfway between Sault Ste. Marie and Fort William and along the Michipicoten River route to Moose Factory on James Bay. In addition to facilitating the lucrative flow of trade goods in numerous directions, Michipicoten became an important intersection point for numerous Métis family and trade networks along both the north-south and east-west travel routes on which

The Supreme Court of Canada’s unanimous decision in R. v. Powley on September 19, 2003 affirmed that members of the historic Sault Ste. Marie Métis Community have a constitutionally protected right to harvest and laid a foundation for further Métis rights recognition across the Métis Homeland from the Upper Great Lakes to the Rocky Mountains. Days after the Supreme Court’s Powley ruling, after having “took time to understand the court ruling and its implications”, Manitoba