A Canadian Family

The goal of this project is to create a series of mini-indexes that make it easier to access information about surnames on this site that are associated with indigenous, Metis or mixed-heritage individuals. Each post below serves to organize the information that is currently scattered about the site. There are frequent updates. Continue reading →

November 30, 2020 Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | Montagnais, Montagnais/French | 8 Comments

Index: A Portrait Gallery of Traditional Quebec Life, Trades & Professions

A Portrait Gallery of Traditional Quebec Life, Trades & Professions | First French Canadian Settlers of Quebec

Some years ago I was combing through the discarded books at my local library when I was lucky enough to come across this wonderfully illustrated volume called Les Anciennes Familles du Quebec. I used it for several years with my students as they worked on family history projects and I’ve decided to share it with readers of this blog because I think it could be very helpful to other teachers of Quebec history as well as to those of you writing your own family histories. Continue reading →

November 9, 2018 Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | early life in Nouvelle France, Early Quebec Settlers, les habitants de Quebec, New France, Pioneer Professions, Pioneer Trades, portraits of Quebec pioneers, Traditional Life | Leave a comment

Main Index: Native – First Peoples – Metis [Canadian Census Extracts]

Core Index: First Peoples Genealogy and History

Surnames: Mi'kmaq (Micmac), Malecite (Amelicite Maliseet), Inuit, Algonquin. Ojibway, Cree, Six Nations, Oneida, Iroquois, Mississauga, Tuscarora, Chippewa, Metis, Montagnais

This is part of a constantly updated larger project to locate surnames carried by Canadian Natives, First Peoples and Metis. In this series of posts, I list Continue reading →

March 29, 2017 Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | Abenaki Abenaquis Surnames, Amalecite Malecite Maliseet surnames, Canadian First Nations census extracts, Chippewa & Saulteaux, Cree surnames, Dakota/Lakota and Nakoda Stoney, Innu Montagnais Surnames, Iroquois Surnames, Metis surnames, Mohawk surnames, Native Metis Census Surnames, Ojibway, Sioux surnames, The Blackfoot Confederacy, The Ojibwe, The Sioux, Wolastoqiyik Surnames | 12 Comments

Core Index: Historical Postcards

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Regional Indexes

Main Index: Vintage Postcards of Quebec

Main Index: Vintage Postcards of New Brunswick Continue reading →

May 4, 2013 Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | Leave a comment

Index: Native – First Peoples – Metis [Canadian Marriage Extracts]

Main Index: Native/First Peoples/Metis Surnames | Census Extracts

Core Index: First Peoples Genealogy & History

Native First Peoples Metis Marriages

Each indigenous people of Canada has their own written and oral historical knowledge to draw on when researching their family trees. Unfortunately, for non-indigenous family historians who believe they might have First Nations bloodlines, and who are not connected to a particular indigenous group it can be difficult to even know where to start to trace their lines. Continue reading →

January 6, 2012 Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | Algonquin surnames, Huron surnames, Iroquois Surnames, Metis surnames, Mohawk surnames, Ontario Metis marriages | 151 Comments

Main Index: Early French Canadian Pioneers of Quebec

Early French Canadian Pioneers of Quebec is a series of micro-posts containing information I’ve collected over the years about many of Quebec’s earliest settlers. The list is not comprehensive. It contains surnames from my family trees and other family trees I’ve worked on as well as surnames that appear in my First Nations, Metis and Mixed-heritage projects. Continue reading →

March 25, 2009 Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | first Canadian settlers, French Canadian pioneers, the earliest Canadian settlers, the founding families of Quebec | 109 Comments

SK | Qu’Appelle [224-43] (1921) | Cree, Saulteaux, Assiniboine

Main Index: Native – First Peoples – Metis [Canadian Census Extracts]

These census posts are part of a larger project to identify the surnames that have appeared among Indigenous, Metis and Mixed-heritage people over the past few hundred years across what is now Canada.

Wherever possible, I’ve posted census links to the individual surnames – but either way there is always a link to the overall census at the foot of the post under External Links. In addition, some of the older posts have orange colour coding. If a surname is orange-coloured it means that it appears in the marriage records on this site. Unfortunately, for technical reasons, the most recent posts don’t yet have this orange coding.

You may also be interested in two companion series of posts. The first – Canadian Marriage Extracts, consists of transcribed marriage records. The second more recent project is a steadily growing series of Surname Anchor Posts. Each surname post is dedicated to just one surname and its variations across Canada and over the past few hundred years.

Note: The goal of all these projects is to arrive at a representative sampling of the surnames. The list is not comprehensive and it relies primarily on settler records (non-indigenous). In all cases, indigenous peoples have the true knowledge of these surnames and of their peoples’ genealogy.

This project is meant simply as a jumping-off point for people who want to answer the questions: Has one of my surnames ever appeared in connection with indigenous or mixed-heritage records? And if so, where and when and among which peoples?

Census Data

Enumeration district: Saskatchewan, Qu’Appelle [224-43] (1921)

[Cree, Saulteaux, Assiniboine]

Agecoutay

Ahkesis – Anagnos

Antipa – Asham – – Aslam

Assincoppo

Ben

Capps

Chicoine – Cye

Cyr

Ditcheanognod – Dubois