After travelling extensively and forming rich connections throughout the Métis Homeland, Hyppolite Brissette and his Métis wife, Archange...

Hyppolite Brissette’s fur trade career began in 1817 when he signed a three-year contract with the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) as a...

Archange L’Hirondelle, the Métis matriarch of the Brissette-L’Hirondelle family, grew up in the fur trade world around Lesser Slave Lake,...

While Elizabeth, Philip, Charlotte, and Joseph Turner Jr. moved west to establish their lives and careers in various Métis communities...

Elizabeth Turner was baptized at Moose Factory on June 30, 1822, alongside her brothers, Joseph Jr. and Philip. Elizabeth grew up...

Following his apprenticeship at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Island Lake District headquarters near Lake Winnipeg, Joseph Turner Jr....