Métis communities across the Homeland were important contributors to the fur trade, with Métis men and women working at trading posts for...

Throughout history, travelling between Métis communities has been an important part of maintaining economic, political, cultural, and kinship connections. While canoes were a common means of transportation throughout the lakes and river systems of the Métis Homeland, they became increasingly dangerous in winter. When lakes began to freeze, canoe routes became difficult or impossible to navigate, and cold temperatures made birch bark canoes brittle. This meant that many Métis

Métis communities throughout the Métis Homeland have vibrant and diverse ways of life grounded in the lands and waters that surround...

George McPherson (Sr.) was born in the Northwest around 1814. At the age of sixteen, he began his career with the Hudson’s Bay Company...

Historians and academics have described Métis in what is now Ontario as “jacks-of-all-trades”, whose adaptability and resiliency have...

Fishing has been a prominent profession within Métis communities across the Métis Homeland for generations, forming an important part of their distinct Métis economy and way of life. Accounts of Métis commercial fishing on the eastern shores of Georgian Bay, for example, were recorded as early as the 1830s and 1840s—shortly after the Métis community’s relocation from Drummond Island. Over successive generations, Métis in Georgian Bay fought to maintain this important occu