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Distinctive Wooden Métis Houses
Many Métis communities across the Métis Nation Homeland had a distinctive way of building and designing their homes. Métis in the Upper...


Métis at Michipicoten
Michipicoten was an important location for the Upper Great Lakes fur trade and among Métis families. Michipicoten was an attractive...


Métis Recognition at Penetanguishene
Ever since their relocation from Drummond Island, Penetanguishene has been the well-documented as the home to Métis in the Upper Great...


Penetanguishene’s Métis Scarlet Fever Patients
British doctor Thomas Sutton clearly distinguished the “half-breeds” from both the “Chipawa-Indians” and non-Indigenous settlers during...


The 1859 Moose Factory Fight Night
By 1859, the Abitibi Inland Métis Community both exhibited and asserted a distinct collective identity apart from First Nations,...


Métis Resistance to the Ontario Fisheries Act
The introduction of Ontario’s Fisheries Act made it difficult for Métis in Georgian Bay and across the Upper Great Lakes to practice...
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