Plante | Metis, Mixed-heritage: Cree | 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 | PLANTE

Regions:
- Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Western Canada
Ethnicity:
- Metis, Mixed-heritage: Cree, French
Associated surnames:
- Alary / Allary (Upd. 2023)
- Beauchamp (Upd. 2023), Beaudry, Beaupre, Belanger, Bellecourt / Belcourt, Bellerose, Boucher, Braconnier, Bruneau (Upd. 2023)
- Calliou
- Desjarlais, Dufond, Emond
- Fagnant, Fiddler, Fife / Fyfe, Fisher
- Gagnon, Gaucher, Gaudry
- Hayden, Henry, Hill (Upd. 2023)
- Kaneratison (Upd. 2023), Katsitsioronkwas
- La Course, Lafleur (Upd. 2023), Lagemodiere, Laplante, Larocque, Lavallee, Leclair, Letendre, L’Iroquois / Waniyande, L’Hirondelle, Meunier / Lafleur
- Moberly, Nault / Naud
- Onensihatha / Hill, Ouellette
- Page, Pambrun, Parenteau, Poitras (Upd. 2023)
- Robillard (Upd. 2023), Roy (Upd. 2023)
- Sansregret, Skawennetsi, Stevens.
Misc.:
- 1. In 1813, Pierre Plante and Francoise Lagrave of Sorel, Quebec were among the earliest non-indigenous settlers of Red River County.
- 2. In 1817, another French Canadian couple named Basil Plante (of Lanoraie, Quebec) and Genevieve Lacourse also settled in Red River County.
- 3. Two Plante couples were associated with the 1885 Metis Restistance: Basile Plante (m. Madeleine La Plante) and Judith Plante (m. Isidore (Wabash) Parenteau). 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. See also Laplante Surname Anchor Post.