Begg | Chippewa, Metis, Ojibway, Mixed heritage: Cree | Surname Anchor Post

Index:  Indigenous, Metis & Mixed-Heritage Surname Anchor Posts

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Each of these posts is dedicated to one surname that is carried by someone connected to indigenous, Metis or mixed-heritage people in Canada.

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SURNAME NOTES  |  BEGG

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• Purpose:
  • The goal of these Surname Anchor Posts is to answer these questions:  Based on settler documents, has my surname ever been associated with indigenous people in what is now called Canada? If so, where and when did it occur? And finally, with which specific peoples was my surname associated?  Note: These posts are just a Finding Aide to help you continue with your own in-depth research. This project is constantly updated but will never be complete.
• Regions:
  • These are the regions where this surname appears in census and/or marriage documents: Manitoba, Ontario, Western Canada.
  • Note: Please see the Census District section down below for links to posts with more location-based information.
• Ethnicity:
  • These are the ethnicities recorded for this surname  in census records as well as Metis scrip and marriage documents: Chippewa, Cree, Metis, Ojibway, Mixed heritage – Scottish, Cree/Scottish.  Note: Please see the Census District section below for links to census posts that list ethnicity by location.
• Associated surnames:
  • These are the surnames of spouses for this surname. Note: Please see the Marriages section down below to reach posts containing my marriage transcriptions.
  • Asmus, Bolton / Boulton, Calder
  • Favel, Fidler / Fiddler, Fraser, Isbister
  • Lacombe, Laing
  • Mayo, McKenzie, Mitchell, Muggaberg, Muir
  • Sigurdson, Spence, Sturgeon, Sunday
  • Valentine, White.
• Misc.:
  • This is where I place scattered bits of information from my Archives.
  • 1.  The Ontario Metis Beggs descend from Charles Begg (originally from Orkney Islands, Scotland) and Catherine Spence (Metis) through their children: Duncan Finlayson Begg (m. Jane Boulton), John George Begg (m. Julia Sturgeon & Annie Calder), Robert James Begg (m. Margaret Jane).  Margaret Begg  (m. George Mitchell). Charles Begg had worked as a labourer and then a slooper for the Hudson’s Bay Company and then a fur trader. He became fluent in Cree which was the first language of his wife Catherine Spence.  [Source: Metis Nation of Ontario, Red River Ancestry]
  • 2.  Charles Begg took part in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s exploration of the Arctic in the late 1830s under the direction of Peter Warren Dease [Source: Red River Ancestry].

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CENSUS DISTRICTS  |  BEGG

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MANITOBA

Selkirk  |  St. Andrews L-7

Beggs in  Selkirk  |   St. Andrew Parish / St. Clement Parish (1906)

Beggs in   Selkirk  |  St. Paul Parish / St. Clement  (1911)

Beggs in Nelson  |  Norway House Indian Reserve  (1921) 

Beggs in Nelson | R.C.M.P.  (1921) 

ONTARIO

Algoma  |  Rat Portage – Town N(2)-2  (1901)

Algoma  |  Rat Portage – Town N(2)-3  (1901) 

Thunder Bay & Rainy River  |  Wabigoon (1911)

Beggs in Port Arthur & Kenora  |  Indian Reserve  (1921)

Beggs in Thunder Bay & Rainy River  |  Fort William   (1911)

TERRITORIES

Unorg. Terr.  |  Keewatin c-2  (1901) 

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MARRIAGES  |  BEGG

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ASAI   [CDN Marriage Extracts] 

BAST   [CDN Marriage Extracts] 

F  …. [CDN Marriage Extracts]

I …   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  

L …    [CDN Marriage Extracts] 

LAHO   [CDN Marriage Extracts]

MCCU   [CDN Marriage Extracts]

MICE    [CDN Marriage Extracts] 

SNOW   [CDN Marriage Extracts] 

V …   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  

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