Bourque, Burke | Abenaki, Chipewyan, Cree, Huron, Metis, Shushwap Mixed heritage: Irish, French | Surname Anchor Posts

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.  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 means complete!

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SURNAME NOTES  |  BOURQUE

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• Surname lists: Surname Anchor Posts, Metis (ON), Chippewa, Cree,  Abenaki, Wabanaki (NB-NS-PEI-QC)
• Regions: AB-BC-MB-QC-SK-Western Canada
• Ethnicity:  Metis, Abenaki, Chipewyan, Cree, Huron, Shushwap Mixed heritage: Irish, French
• Associated surnames: Branconnier, Campbell, Cardinal, Carriere / Carrier, Chalifoux, Charron / Sharon, Courteoreille, Desjarlais, Falardeau, Fiddler / Fidler, Flirth, Gardner, Garrioch / Garriock, Grouette, Hale, Hallet, Hamelin, Henderson, Houle, Johnston, Kakikekamick, Kirton, Klyne, Laderoute, Ladouceur, Larocque, Leclerc / Leclair, Lepine, McDonald, Mercredi, Moise / Kakikekamick, Parker, Porter, Ryan, Simon, Sioui, Stodgill, Thibert, Tremblay, Walker, Walsh / Welsh, Widdle, Wylie.
• Misc.:  
• 1. At least two lines of western Metis Bourques descend from French Canadians. The two founding couples are:  George Bourque and his Metis wife Agathe Ladouceur, and John Alfred Bourque and his Metis wife Philomene Laderoute.
• 2. Other Bourkes descend from Irishman John Palmer Bourke and his Metis wife Nancy Campbell.
• 3. The Bourke surname can be carried by Bourkes but also by descendants of French Bourques who have anglicized their surname to Bourke or Burke.

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CENSUS DISTRICTS  |  BOURQUE, BURKE

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ALBERTA

The Territories  |  Duhamel (1901)

The Territories  |  Edmonton East   (1901)

The Territories  |  Lac La Biche (1901)

Victoria  |  Lac La Biche (1911)

Bourque in Edmonton East  |  47  (1921)  May 2022    

BRITISH COLUMBIA

Yale-Cariboo  |  Kamloops Indian Agency  (1911)   newly indexed May 2022

Bourque in Yale | Lytton & Cache Creek & Spence’s Bridge & Kamloops (1921)  May 2022

Bourques in Yale  |   Lytton & Cache Creek …  (1881)   May 2022 

Burkes in Cariboo  |  Kamloops  (1921)  May 2022 

MANITOBA

Lisgar  |  Louise (1901) 

Macdonald  |  Portage La Prairie  (1901)

Selkirk  |  Assiniboia a-1 (1901)  

Selkirk  |  Clandeboye Agency   (1911)

Selkirk | St. Francois-Xavier N-3 (1901)   newly indexed May 2022

SASKATCHEWAN

The Territories  |  Assiniboia W.   | Willowbunch  (1901)

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES

NWT  |  Fort Resolution  (1911)

THE TERRITORIES

Terr   |  Mackenzie D-3  (1901)  newly indexed May 2022

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MARRIAGES  |  BOURQUE, BURKE

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BLAN   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [AB-BC-MB-SK-Western Canada Metis Scrip]

BRAS   [CDN Marriage Extracts] [MB] 

C …  [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB] 

COON   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [AB]

DELM   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [AB]  

F …   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [BC-Western Canada Metis Scrip]

G  …  [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [Western Canada Metis Scrip] 

H …   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [AB-Western Canada Metis Scrip]

KASA   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [MB] 

P  …   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [SK] 

SAUN   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [AB]

SIMO   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [QC] 

SNOW   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [Western Canada Metis Scrip]

THOR   [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [AB] 

WHE– Z    [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [AB]  

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RELATED POSTS  |  BOURQUE, BURKE

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INDEXES

Main Index: Canadian Census Extracts by Region & by Nation

Index: Canadian Marriage Extracts in Alphabetical Order