McDonald & Var. | Metis, Algonquin, Blackfoot, Iroquois, Montagnais, Mixed-heritage: Scottish/Cree

McDonald & Var. | Metis, Algonquin, Blackfoot, Iroquois, Montagnais, Mixed-heritage: Scottish/Cree | Surname Anchor Post

Upd. Nov 2021

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

MacDonald / Macdonald – McDonald / Mcdonnald – Mcdonnel

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!

SURNAME NOTES | MCDONALD & VAR.

Surname lists: Surname Anchor Posts, Iroquois, Metis (ON), Wabanaki
Regions: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Western Canada
Ethnicity: Metis, Algonquin, Blackfoot, Iroquois, Montagnais, Mixed-heritage: Scottish, Cree
Associated surnames: Anderson, Atkiness, Allard, Atkinson, Basile / Bazile, Bear, Beaudry, Beauvais, Boucher, Burke / Bourque, Burns, Bryant, Cadotte, Calder, Campbell, Cardinal Cleary, Cook, Courtepatte, Decaire / Dicaire, Desjarlais, Desrochers, Ducharme, Dumont, Duncan, Durocher, Dusome, Eccles, Fadden, Ferris, Ferguson, Flett, Fraser, Gabriel, Garrow, George, Gleazer, Godon, Gordon, Green, Gunn, Hamelin, Hay, Heavy Runner, Henderson, Herne, Hill, Inkster, Jacco / Jacko / Jock, , Jack, James, Joachim, Johnston, Kirkness, Klyne, Laderoute, Langevin, Lapierre,Laprise, Larance / Laurance, Laurin, Lazare, L’Hirondelle, Lindstrom, Lizotte, Logan, Manson, McAulay, McCorrister, McDonnell / McDonald, McGhie, McKay, McLeod, Mercredi, Miruabeuit, Moar, Mowatt, Murray, Nanipo / Nanipou, Napane, Ostawenserahes, Patenaude, Peebles, Peel, Pheasnt, Presley, Quintal / Quintall, Raphael, Roach, Robillard, Rodgers, Rowland, Roy, Setter / Settee, Silver, Sylleboy, Swain, Tait, Tappe, Taylor, Thomason, Tourangeau, Turner, Verhelst, Verrault, Whetung, Whiteway, Williams.
Misc.: 1. There are some Algonquin McDonnells who descend from John McDonnell / Mcdonald (son of Alexander McDonnell and Mary Ann McKay) and Marie Angelique / Manian Angelique Dufond / Osaabikwe (daughter of Amable Jean-Paul Dufond & Elizabeth Fisher.) [Source: Jean-Guy Paquin] 2. One branch of Western Metis McDonalds descends from John McDonald and Charlotte Inkster through their son: Donald McDonald (m. Margaret Turner) and their daughter Rosalie McDonald (m. Arthur Cummings Clare). 2. In Quebec there are many Montagnais McDonalds, as well as other McDonalds connected to the Iroquois. 3. My marriage database contains both Innu Montagnais First Nations individuals as well as mixed Montagnais / French marriages as listed in a study by the Communauté Métisse du Domaine du Roy et de la Seigneurie de Mingan. Some mixed French/Montagnais descendants self-identify as Metis (see Etienne Rivard’s discussion paper). 4. In Ontario there are three lines of recognized Metis descending from couples with a McDonnel/McDonald or MacDonald wife. a. Marie Cecile McDonnell dit Mawiskak and her husband Narcisse Pierre Dorion. b. Janet MacDonald and her husband Henry Charles Fraser c. Isabelle MacDonald and her husband Isaac Hunter. 5. Hudson’s Bay Company has service records for over 20 individuals with a McDonald or McDonnell surname. Note: HBC service records relate to employees who worked in traditional indigenous territories and who may or may not have started mixed-heritage families. Scroll down to External Links for more information.