Moreau | Metis, Montagnais, Mixed-heritage: Cree, Montagnais | Surname Anchor Post

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

SURNAME NOTES | MOREAU

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 the Moreau surname appears in census and/or marriage documents: Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, 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 the Moreau surname in census records as well as Metis scrip and marriage documents.: Metis, Montagnais, Mixed-heritage: Cree, French, Montagnais. 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 Moreau spouses. Note: Please see the Marriages section down below to reach posts containing my marriage transcriptions.
- Andre, Ashini

- Bacon, Beauchamp, Begin, Bellehumeur, Berard, Brissette
- Cardinal, Chevrette, Collard, Coulumbre, Courchene,
- Deschamps (2023), Desjarlais / Orkasais, Dion, Dominique,
- Etienne, Flammand,
- Gariepy (Upd. 2023), Gignac, Gosselin
- Hervieux, Ishpatao, Jourdain
- Lafeuille / Gariepy
- Lafontaine, Lafreniere, Lalo, Lamoureux, Laplante (Upd. 2023), Laviolette, Louis
- Mallec, Marchildon, Marion, Mestenepeo, Mestokosho, Moreau
- Nanipou, Otshiman, Ouellette, Paul, Picard, Quesnelle
- Racette (Upd. 2023), Riverin, Robillard, Rock / Roch, Ross (Upd. 2023), Rousselot
- Sauve (Upd. 2023), Simeon, St. Denis, St. Onge
- Vallee, Venne, Vollant, White.
Misc.:
- 1. One Western Canadian Moreau Metis lineage descends through Jonas Moreau (son of French Canadian Baptiste Moreau and Metisse Francoise Beauchamp) and his Metis wife Cecile Desjarlais).
- 2. Morrow is a common anglicization of Moreau.
- 3. Two Moreau women were married to Metis involved in the 1885 Resistance. They were Elise Moreau (m. Alexandre Cardinal) and Madeleine Morin (m. Edouard Pelletier). 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]. See External Links below for more information.
- 4. My marriage database contains Innu Montagnais and mixed-heritage Montagnais / French marriages as listed in a study by the Communauté Métisse du Domaine du Roy et de la Seigneurie de Mingan.