Ducharme | Metis, American Indian, Cree, Mixed-heritage Cree, French

Ducharme | Metis, American Indian, Cree, Mixed-heritage Cree, French | Surname Anchor Post

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

Each of these posts is dedicated to one surname that is carried by someone connected to indigenous, Metis or mixed-heritage people in Canada. Please be aware that it’s a synthesis of the information I’ve collected in my personal research throughout the years and is by no way complete!

SURNAME NOTES | DUCHARME

Surname lists: Surname Anchor Posts, Metis (ON)
Regions: Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Western Canada
Ethnicity: Metis, American Indian, Cree, Mixed-heritage Cree, French
Associated surnames: (A) Alary / Allary, Amyot, Anderson, Asham, Augier / Auger, Aymond (B) Beauchemin / Millet, Beaugrand, Beaulieu, Belhumeur / Bellehumeur, Belleau, Berard, Bercier / Bersier, Bernard, Beyner, Boucher / Butcher, Boudreau, Bousquet, Boyer, Braconnier, Brass, Bremner (C) Campbell, Caplette, Cardinal, Carriere, Chaboyer, Chartrand, Constant, Corrigal (D) Dagneault, Decock, Delorme, Deschamps, Descoteaux / Des Coteau, Desjarlais, Desmarais, Donald, Ducharme, Durand, Durocher (F) Fagnant, Falcon, Faye, Ferguson, Fidler / Fiddler, Finnegan, Flamand / Flammand, Fleury, Foye (G) Gagnon, Garand, Gariepy, Genaille / Chenail, Gaudry, Gladu, Godbout, Gosselin, Gouin, Goulet, Grant, Grieves, Grouette (H) Hachland, Hamand, Hamelin, Heneault, Henry, Hewitt, Honore, Houle, Huireault (Mireault ?), Hupe / Huppe (J) Jolicoeur (K) Kanepow, Klyne / Kline (L) Ladouceur, Lafournaise, Lagemodiere, Lagemoniere,Lamb, Lambert, Laplante, Lapointe, Larocque, La Sauteuse, Lavallee, Laverdure, Lavigne, Leclair, Ledoux, Legare, Lemire, Lepine, Lilly, Lucier / Lussier (M) MacDonald, Mallette, Marsden, Marstad (Morsted ?), Martin, Masson, Matoose, McCabe, McDonald, McKay, McLeod, Moar, Millette, Mispounas, Moise / Kakiekamiek, Monet / Monette, Mongrain, Monkman, Montour, Moosetail, Morin, Morrisseau, Morrissette, Mousseau, Mulligan (N) Nabes / Nabess, Nolin / Nolan (O) Osaweyman, Oshtigwaneshi (P) Pangman, Parisien, Pelletier, Perreault, Pilon, Poitras, Proulx, Pruden (R) Racette, Renaud, Richard, Richarme / Richaume, Ritchot, Robert, Robillard, Rocheleau, Rochon, Ross (S) Saindon, Saltel, Sanderson, Sauve, Sayese, Shearer / Sharon / Charon, Simpson, Sinclair, Sioux, Smith, Spence, Starr, St. Denis / Denis, St. Germain, St. Pierre, Swain (T) Tessier, Tetrault, Todd (V) Vallee, Vandal, Vileburn / Villebrun (?) Vivier Ward (Y) Young.
Misc.:
1. One line of Red River Metis Ducharmes descends from Quebecker Antoine Ducharme and his Metis wife Jane Lambert. Their offspring included: Alexander Ducharme (m. Catherine Corrigal), Catherine Ducharme (m. Francois Poitras), Isabella Ducharme (m. Thomas Corrigal), Josephte Ducharme (m. Joseph Sinclair), Marguerite Ducharme (m. John Ward & Paul Fagnant)
2. Another Red River line descends from the couple Francois Ducharme (son of a Quebecker) and Marguerite Sanderson. Their offspring included: Charles Ducharme (m. Elizabeth Asham), Francis / Francois Ducharme (m. Eliza Anderson), James Ducharme (m. Marguerite Brass), Louison Ducharme (m. Sara Flett), Robert J. Ducharme (m. Catherine Alice Asham), Eliza Ducharme (m. Donald Ross), Elizabeth Ducharme (m. Samuel Sanderson), Isabella Annabella Ducharme (m. Henry George Henderson), Marguerite Ducharme (m. Charles Marsden), Mary Ducharme (m. Angus McLeod).
3. Two Metis Ducharmes were involved in the 1885 North-West Resistance (formerly known as The North-West Rebellion). They were Charles Ducharme and Joseph Ducharme (m. Sarah Brass). The 1885 North-West Resistance included Metis and other indigenous peoples (Cree, Kainai, Piikani, Saulteaux and Siksika) and was in response to broken treaties, starvation and encroachment on their lands by new settlers in what are now Saskatchewan and Alberta. The resistance fighters were defeated and Canada’s federal government asserted its control over the area. [Source: Veterans and Families of the 1885 Northwest Resistance, Lawrence Barkwell, Louis Riel Institute].
4. This is one Ducharme surname variation – Ducharme dit Decoutou / Descoteaux.