It is important to note that many of the summaries on this site are just drafts that were not initially intended to be shared. It is a work in progress made by amateur researchers with lots of passion.
The purpose of this site is to ensure that correct information is made available in relation to Eastern Metis research, to stop the perpetuation of incorrect/made up "Metis" ancestors by the internet/online trees.
All in Cape Sable
“I am not in the state to produce and to return the registers of baptisms of marriages and burials that I had held in the different posts that I have served that having been forced to flee from the first, to provide for my safety, and to that of my inhabitants and that having been forcibly removed from the last named the Cap de Sable and transferred to France”
I had heard some of the oldest of the French settlers say that the Indian language was as familiar to them as their mother tongue.
Guy-Marie Oury O.S.B. discusses the difficulty that Père Jean-Mandé Sigogne experienced with the “Sang-Mêlés (“Mixed-Bloods”)
