Canada's Fur Trade History & Genealogy
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Adding the lists to the Top of this page again, since they keep shrinking to the bottom. 1888 Lists https://albertaonrecord.ca/iw-glen-846 and 1886 Lists https://albertaonrecord.ca/iw-glen-845 Happy Researching!

Métis Trade Routes of the Pacific Northwest 1806-1886 Land Geography & the Metis People Lisa Shepherd & Kristi Bridgeman... *Available in Kristi's online SHOP https://www.kristibridgeman.com//Metis-Trade-Routes-Pacifi This was an interesting and challenging map to create- showing travel of our Metis Ancestors in BC during the late 18th and 19th centuries. (Documented in British Columbia as early as 1793) While the trade routes of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company moved across the rest of the country from East to West, in BC the trade routes traveled from North to South. This is due to the natural geography of the land. The rivers the highways of the day run North and South throughout BC. Metis culture and community traveled along these communication routes, facilitating the movement of Metis people and culture over a vast geographical area. The trade routes in BC ran south through the medicine line (into the U.S.) and out to the west at Fort Astoria. Intended as an educational piece, the beautiful posters also explain the significance of the land geography and how it impacted our kinship ties and the beginnings of British Columbia. Created in ink, watercolour, wax resist, glass beads. Graphic Design Poster layout by Greg Glover. All rights reserved Kristi Bridgeman and Lisa Shepherd.

In 1854, an aging Cuthbert Grant succumbed to his injuries from falling off his horse and passed away on this day. Grant led the Métis to victory during the Ba...ttle of Seven Oaks, had a long career as a prominent fur trader, and is considered a founding father of the Métis national identity. Read more about this great Métis leader at @GabrielDumontInstitute’s virtual museum: http://ow.ly/itY550Au50J

National Indigenous History Month - Photo 6 Thappe arrived in Grande Cache around 1845. He was Beaver (Dene-saa) from an area near the Spirit and Peace rivers. ...Thappe married Louise Findlay, a local woman to Grande Cache. They had two children named Joe and Louisa. During the winter, Thappe went hunting in what is now the Willmore Wilderness Park. Though it's still unknown exactly what happened, Thappe died. Because of the frozen ground, he couldn't be buried properly. His friends returned in the spring and built a spirit house for his remains. Following Thappe's death, Louise Findlay married Donald McDonald. They did not have any children together but Joe, Thappe and Louise's son, changed his last name to McDonald. Now a well-known family name in the Grande Cache area, Thappe's memory as the patriarch of the McDonald family has been preserved on local maps and in local folklore. Source: "A History of Grande Cache", Richard Wuorinen & "Legends of Grande Cache and the Yellowhead", Jack Deenik, Robert Guest & Richard Wuorinen Image: From left to right, Donald McDonald, Louisa Findlay, Joe McDonald, Louise McDonald, Provincial Archives

The archaeology community in Newfoundland and Labrador has suffered yet another tremendous loss with the passing of Gerry Penney yesterday. We wish to express o...ur heartfelt condolences to his wife Ellen, family, and friends. Each member of the Provincial Archaeology Office (PAO) certainly counted Gerry as our friend and colleague. We will miss his friendship, humour, and his vast wealth of knowledge and experience in Newfoundland and Labrador archaeology & history. Gerry was an active participant in a number of groups and organizations. Several of them have expressed their condolences with regard to their ties to Gerry, such as the Miawpukek First Nation and the Newfoundland and Labrador Archaeological Society. Part of our deep admiration and respect for Gerry can be expressed through recognizing his long and prolific archaeological career. Based on the records at the PAO, Gerry held more than 250 archaeology permits and either found or revisited more than 400 archaeology sites. All of these permits and sites require extensive documentation. His list of references in the PAO Reference List extends more than 15 pages and includes more than 350 reports! In fact, Gerry produced so much documentation that he had his own filing cabinet at the PAO. From our records, Gerry began his archaeology career with a survey from the North Side of Trinity Bay from Cape Bonavista to the Isthmus of Avalon. He was the first independent archaeological consultant to operate in this province starting in 1978 with a survey of the Upper Salmon Hydro Development on the south coast of the Island. He continued to be an independent archaeological consultant until his passing. He was heavily involved with the Miawpukek First Nation in Conne River and their search for their history on the Island. Part of the goal of his 1985 Master’s Thesis was to search for Mi’kmaq sites, and while he found several recent historic Mi’kmaq sites during this work, his lasting contribution from his thesis was the L'Anse à Flamme site. Gerry named the Little Passage complex based on his work at L'Anse à Flamme, which we know today as the precontact ancestors of the Beothuk based mostly on his work. On the heels of his thesis, he became the first archaeologist to excavate a Mi’kmaq site on the island, including Burnt Knapps, Temagen Gospen, and King George IV Lake. In the 1990s, he led a search for Mi’kmaq sites called the Katalisk survey that stretched from the Codroy River Valley to Bay St. George. As an independent archaeological consultant, he expanded his company and had several excellent people working with him including archaeologists, historians, and GIS/CAD technicians. Together they carried out projects for NL Hydro, property development companies, numerous municipalities throughout Newfoundland and Labrador, and various mineral exploration and forestry companies. He worked for several government departments including our own doing desk-based assessments, field assessments, and directed research. He carried out several large archaeological surveys looking for sites, in areas such as western Notre Dame Bay and the eastern shore of Trinity Bay. In the last few years, much of his work focused on St. John’s and area. This included projects like the Harbour Interceptor Sewer, work near the Basilica and the Anglican Cathedral, various hotel and office building projects, and work near Quidi Vidi Lake. Over his career, Gerry’s work literally took him from southern Newfoundland to northern Labrador. He found or revisited 103 sites in Labrador and 310 on the Island. His archaeology career exemplified the phrase been there, done that. Obituary https://necrocanada.com/obituaries-2020/gerald-penney-2020/

Pierre Pangman Died 1850

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An in-depth look at Métis Settlements in Alberta and how they came to be.

GENOCIDE First Nations starved to death by the Canadian government to make way for the settlers and the railroad following the slaughter of the great Buffalo Na...tions. "...Indeed, prime minister John A. Macdonald is quoted as saying, We are doing all we can, by refusing food until the Indians are on the verge of starvation, to reduce the expense. Food spoiled in dominion warehouses while native people starved and sickened (one federal agent even called all the starving people of his reserve to the storehouse to hand out food, then sent them home as he laughed, calling it an April Fool’s joke), women prostituted themselves for food and government ministers blithely claimed that so long as First Nations people expected food, they would remain helpless, or, as Daschuk quotes, it was not intended that the Indian should become self-supporting. He was only to be kept quiet till the country filled up when his ill will could be ignored. ~ Image. - Native residents on Crow's Nest Pass Line Railway, British Columbia Library and Archives Canada/Travers Coleman collection Public Domain. See more

MARKING THE GREAT DIVIDE -- Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide: The Alberta-BC Boundary Survey, 1918-1924 by Jay Sherwood and reviewed here by Ke...ith Regular: "Borders define us. Canada’s political and physical borders, such as mountain ramparts, isolate and cultivate distinct attitudes on environmental issues and economic agendas, and harden perspectives such as exist today between BC’s environmentalist focus and Alberta’s energy-driven economic program. The huge geographic and disparate landmass that is modern Canada attaches an enduring bordering effect to its citizens and, as evidenced by the recent genesis of WEXIT, has created as much mutual suspicion as collective celebration. The contemporary fractious relations that exist between Alberta and British Columbia, however, betray an earlier and much more amicable relationship when, like today, much was at stake." Thank you Richard Somerset Mackie and The Ormsby Review -- Have a Look! See more

ALDEN, James Madison (1834-1921), New England-born landscape artist, nephew of Lieutenant James Alden who came to California in 1854 by invitation of his uncle ...to accept a position as artist, topographer and junior office aboard the U.S.S. Active for the U.S. Coast Survey. He worked for the survey from 1854 to 1860, creating hundreds of watercolors and drawings of the west coast in exacting detail. These particular paintings were completed in 1858 during his time north of the 49th parallel, and particularly of the Fraser River landscape. See more