After spending his formative years with his Métis family at small inland Hudson’s Bay Company posts, like Matawagamingue, John Saunders’...

John Saunders was born in 1845 at Matawagamingue, a small inland Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) post located at Mattagami Lake.  John’s...

On October 7, 2004—exactly three months after the signing of the Métis Nation of Ontario’s landmark interim Harvesting Agreement—Ontario...

On July 7, 2004, the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources signed the first-ever negotiated...

On July 7, 2004, the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources made history together by signing the first-ever negotiated agreement recognizing Métis harvesting rights anywhere in the Métis homeland.  Known as the “Four Points Agreement,” the interim Harvesting Agreement emerged less than a year after the Supreme Court of Canada’s historic decision in R. v. Powley  (2003).  The Supreme Court’s unanimous Powley ruling made it clear: historic M

While Treaty 9 was being negotiated in 1905, Métis in Moose Factory organized and petitioned the government for “that scrip has been...