Joseph Turner Jr. was born into the Métis world of the coastal and inland fur trade posts of western James Bay in 1816 and was baptized...

Joseph Turner Sr., a devoted servant of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), began his career in 1799 at the depot at Moose Factory, a key...

While some members of the Nolin family moved further west to Red River in the last years of the 1810s, others remained in Sault Ste....

After retiring from the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1837, Jean Baptiste and Marie Angelique’s son, Augustin, was granted a River Lot in the...

The legacy of the prominent Métis Nolin family began with the marriage of Jean Baptiste Nolin, a French-Canadian fur trader, and Marie...

The merger of the North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company in 1821 marked a turning point in the fur trade.   For Métis fur trade...