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Hi Angela:
Try some of the following info sources:
Look up listings using Canada’s phone book - http://canada411.sympatico.ca/english/person.asp - use “Search All” or MANITOBA.
There are no PASHEE spellings in Canada's phone books, but there are 13 PASHE, all in Manitoba and most on the Dakota Tipi Reserve, just outside Portage la Prairie (we Canadians just call it "Portage"). Why not call some of these folks and find out what they know. I think they are your "cousins". They are in CENTRAL TIME ZONE.
There are 19 PASH names across Canada. The ones in Nova Scotia (NS) and Alberta (AB) are related to each other, maybe also to the others. I don't think these folks have any native blood in them.
Can't find the place you are looking for ? An excellent (and easy to use) website where you can locate up to 350,000 current and former placenames in Canada, accessible in French or English, is - http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/cgndb.html - or Home Page at - http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/Home.html -
Provincial Archives of Manitoba
Provincial Services Division
200 Vaughan Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 1T5
Telephone: 204-945-3971
Fax: 204-948-2672
E-mail: - pam@gov.mb.ca -
Web Site: - http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/index.html/archives/index.html - includes Hudson's Bay Company archives which were donated to the Manitoba Archives several years ago. The Hudson's Bay Company was created in 1670 by English merchants with the help of King Charles II. It is the world's oldest trading company still in business. The HBC would have lots of records of native people who traded their furs at its trading posts and general stores, in return for flour, bacon, and cooking utensils (pots and pans).
Cyndi's list has a Native section - http://www.CyndisList.com/native.htm -
email - feedback@nativeweb.org - or E-Mail: - nw-news@nativeweb.org -
Resources - An extensive listing of resources for Indigenous people and nations around the world.
Books & Music - Hundreds of Books, Cassettes and CD's categorized and linked to - http://www.Amazon.com -
Hosted Materials - Links to Indigenous organizations, web sites and materials hosted on - NativeWeb.Communities -
Message boards, white pages, jobs, events and more ! Contact Us.
Native American Information - http://www.pawnee.com/indian/ -
- http://www.arapaho.com/ -
- http://www.pawnee.com -
These have LINKS to other native sites.
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The “Métis” of Canada
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB - www.glenbow.org/archhtm/denney.htm - has the Charles Denny Papers - Metis collection which MAY include connections to the genaology of the famous Massey Family found in Canadian National Library. Elizabeth Massey and Johnson Merriam are listed in the inventory of names. Glenbow Museum employees state that they did not appear to be Métis, but they were at Red River. These papers are a complilation of family history files on over 1200 families with roots in the Red River (Manitoba, Canada), predominantly (but not all) Métis and fur trade families. This collection is available on microfilm and may be borrowed through interlibrary loan through libraries at a cost of $10.70 to be collected by the library.
In the north where large posts of the Hudsons Bay Company (HBC) existed (e.g. York Factory, Moose Factory), the word “Factor” came into being. The Post, Fort etc was a Factory for producing bundles of furs traded for utensils, beads, powder, and shot. The name “Factor” as manager of the Post faded, later becoming “manager”. One had to do something pretty bad to be expelled as a Factor, and you would likely have been called back to England for expulsion.
# 14412 CANADA - Stan Hulme - nanitort@home.com - wrote April 03, 2000: I do Metis genealogy as a hobby and concentrate on the HBC, NWC and Red River Settlement. I currently have slightly over 20,000 individuals in my furtrade data base with some of the families extending from mid 1700s to the current.
- http://genweb.net/~metis-treedb7/surnames.htm #L - Serena's Database. 2000-01-10: “The requested URL - /~metis-treedb7/surnames.htm - was not found on this server”.
Site belonging to Gail Morin called “Métis Families”. The address is - http://www.televar.com/~gmorin/index. html -. This is a web site about the pioneer families who settled Canada's Western Provinces in the 18th and 19th centuries. “Métis” is the French equivalent to the Spanish “mestisos” or “mixed blood” people who were usually part aboriginal American and part white background.
In Canada, most Métis found themselves in Manitoba after it became a Province of Canada in 1870. Their leader was Louis Riel who along with Gabriel Dumont tried to get more equality and better living conditions for their people in light of the hatred and racism visited upon them by new white settlers. The constant battles between the British authorities and the Métis culminated in the brand new railroad being used to bring troops of the North West Police (now known as Royal Canadian Mounted Police) to fight it out with the Métis in 1885. Riel was arrested and hanged after a mock trial. After that, he was a martyr and hero to his people, but a traitor and troublemaker to most white anglophones. His reputation and the real achievements he brought to his people were only admitted and recognized in the late 1980’s by the Canadian Government at an official ceremony where various monuments to his memory were unveiled.
Krystal Tait - krystal.tait@ec.gc.ca - wrote August 20, 1999: I have done a lot of research into Métis families in Manitoba. I also have access to the Glenbow Archives in Calgary, which contains a lot of information on other families like Delorme and Swain.
Selected Métis names:
- Baresse/Barresi/Barresse - Beauchamp - Clemente - Manitoba
- Gunville/Goneville/Gonneville - Swan/Swaine - Manitoba
- Belanger - Delorme - Versailles - Cypress Hills
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