Métis siblings Michael, Antoine, and Catherine Labatte were not simply passive witnesses to their family’s landing at Thunder Beach in Tiny Township. Together, they became oral historians whose combined memories preserved a foundational chapter of Métis life along Georgian Bay for future generations of their Métis community. Their accounts, recorded in A.C. Osborne’s 1901 The Migration of Voyageurs from Drummond Island to Penetanguishene , demonstrate how Métis history often

In 1905, Métis brothers George and William McLeod stood together with members of their Métis community to sign the Moose Factory Métis Petition, asserting their collective presence, rights, and future. That same sense of solidarity and connection defined George and William’s lives as siblings and was quite literally built into the walls of Moose Factory’s McLeod House, which they had built together. George and William worked together at the Hudson’s Bay Company post at Moose

In the decade following the War of 1812, Métis siblings Louis, Augustin, Adolphus, Marguerite, and Angelique Nolin extended their family’s connections from Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Great Lakes across the Métis Homeland through lives defined by shared purpose, responsibility, and service. Their paths took them in different directions, but the siblings carried forward a family tradition and legacy rooted in diplomacy, trade, education, and leadership. Following in his fath

1840 Penetanguishene “Half Breed” Petition signatory, Thomas Jones, was one of many members of the Georgian Bay Métis Community who raised a large Métis family grounded in the values of community and connection. Together, former Drummond Islanders Thomas Jones and Mary Blette dit Sorrelle raised eleven Métis children while living deeply connected to their local community. Four of their children were baptized at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Penetanguishene, built by members of

Pride, responsibility and connection-building have been deeply woven through generations of the Georgian Bay Métis Community’s Longlade family, engrained among siblings, passed down to their children, and shared with their Métis neighbours.  Father and son, Charles Longlade Sr. and Charles Longlade Jr, were signatories to the 1840 Penetanguishene “Half Breed” Petition, joining other Métis families like the Vasseurs, Labattes, Beausoliels, and St. Onges, in an act of community

The strength of Métis connections and kinship in the Upper Great Lakes is reflected across generations of families, such as the Vasseurs of Penetanguishene. For example, War of 1812 veteran Charles Vasseur married fellow Métis Marguerite Longlade on Mackinac Island and later settled together among the richly connected Métis community on Drummond Island. Charles became a prominent member of Penetanguishene’s Métis community following its relocation from Drummond Island, signin