Métis communities across the Homeland have always shared a love of food. Stews and soups were and continue to be a warm, hearty meal during winter, using ingredients found within each Métis community’s place in the Homeland. One stew shared across the Homeland is Rubaboo. Rubaboo is a hearty stew or soup made from meat, vegetables, and water. The earliest record of this cultural dish dates back to the 1800s. Traditionally, Rubaboo was made of peas or corn with bear or pork

The Hudson’s Bay Company’s post at Rat Portage was the northernmost outpost at Lake of the Woods, near present-day Kenora. For generations, it served as the bridge between the traders of the Red River and the Upper Great Lakes. George L. Huyshe, a solider in Colonel Garnet Wolseley’s 1870 expeditionary force to the Red River, described the post at Rat Portage as: “a small affair, three log houses roofed with bark and enclosed by a high wooden palisading. The Company maintain

The Métis people are known for their sense of humour and love of a good joke. Despite forced relocations, restrictive government policies, and countless personal hardships, Upper Great Lakes Métis have always maintained—and been quick to share—their vibrant sense of humour. Self-deprecating humour was one way that Métis in Upper Great Lakes could enliven the spirits of themselves and others. In her interview with A.C. Osborne, for example, then-elderly Angelique Langlad

On November 16, 2004, the Métis Nation of Ontario and Chiefs of Ontario signed a historic Political Protocol Agreement. The Agreement was created in recognition that, “First Nations and Métis peoples within Ontario have a history of respecting and recognizing each others interests, as well as, working in partnership and cooperation, as neighbours and relations, in support of each others interests and aspirations”. Its purpose was to, “affirm mutual respect, recognition and s