Dubois | Metis, Saulteaux, Ojjibwa, Chippewa, Stoney, Mixed-heritage: Montagnais, French | Surname Anchor Post

Index:  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.

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SURNAME NOTES  |  DUBOIS

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• Regions:
  • Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan.
• Ethnicity:  
  • Metis, Saulteaux, Ojjibwa, Chippewa, Stoney, Mixed-heritage: Montagnais, French
• Associated surnames:
  • Berthelet, Caron, Clement, Collongeard, Desjardins, Desjarlais, Dorion, Dow / Dower, Gagow, George, Ispicous, Keplat, Kippling, Kisikopiyesis, Laberge, Lapierre, Lapointe, Larence, Lariviere, Larocque, Ledoux, Morrisseau, Morand, Morin, Ogweiaw, Okwelaw, Ouellette, Parenteau, Pilon, Primeau, Savoyard, Schellin, St. Pierre / St. Peter, White, Vivier.
• Misc.: –  
  • 1. Some Dubois anglicize their name to Wood or Woods.
  • 2. One Red River Metis lineage descends from the couple Francois Xavier Dubois and Angelique Lariviere through their offspring: Francois Dubois (m. Madeleine Laberge), Jean Baptiste Dubois (m. Marie Laberge), Louise Dubois (m. Pierre Berthelet / Savoyard), Marguerite Dubois (m. Joseph Berthelet), Marie Dubois (m. Jean Baptiste Morin), Suzanne Dubois (m. Francois Plourde),
  • 3. Several Metis Dubois  (or their spouses) were involved in the 1885 North-West Resistance (formerly known as The North-West Rebellion). They include: Ambroise Dubois (m. Angelique Caron), Florence Dubois (m. Ignace Zenon Poitras], Maxime Dubois (m. Catherine Ledoux) and Rosalie Dubois (m. Napoleon 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. 

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CENSUS DISTRICTS  |  DUBOIS

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MANITOBA

Dufferin  |  Lisgar (1901) 

Lisgar | Carman (1901)  

Provencher  |  La Broquerie e-7  (1901)

Provencher  |  Morris Town G (1901) 

Provencher  |  Dubois in Township 6, range 4   (1911)

ONTARIO

Algoma  |  Batchawana  (1901)  

Algoma  | Michipicoten River  (1901) 

Algoma  |  Michipicotin  (1881) 

Algoma  |  DuBois in Sault Ste Marie   (1901)

Algoma  |  Couchiching Agency  (1901) 

Algoma West | Garden River Reserve  (1921)  

Muskoka & Parry Sound  |  Wallbridge & Brown (1901)

Thunder Bay & Rainy River  |  Wabigoon  (1911)

Dubois in Port Arthur and Kenora | Lake of the Woods … (1921)

QUEBEC

Chicoutimi & Saguenay  |  Ouuiatchouan (1901)

SASKATCHEWAN

Humboldt  |  Gordon and Muskow-ekwum Indian Reserves  (1906) 

Humboldt  |  Dubois in Indian Reserve (1911)

Prince Albert  |  Petaquakeys I.R.  (1911) 

Qu’Appelle  |  Dubois in Crooked Lake Indian Reserve  (1911)

Qu’Appelle  |  Indian Agency  (1911) 

The Territories  |  Flett Springs  (1901) 

The Territories  |  Asssiniboia E.  | Muskowpehung & File Hills   (1901) 

Dubois in Qu’Appelle-Saskatchewan | Indian Reserve (1921)

Dubois in Regina | Indian Reserve (1921)

TERRITORIES

The Territories  |  Keewatin c-2   (1901)  Wood  

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MARRIAGES  |  DUBOIS

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

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

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

DOKIS    [CDN Marriage Extracts] [MB-ON-SK-Western Canada Metis Scrip]

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

MOBE    [CDN Marriage Extracts    [Western Canada Metis Scrip]

OKAN     | CDN Marriage Extracts] [MB-Western Canada Metis Scrip]  

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

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

SAUN   [CDN Marriage Extracts]   [ON-Western Canada Metis Scrip]

WHE– Z   [CDN Marriage Extracts]   [AB-North Dakota-Western Canada Metis Scrip]

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

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RELATED POSTS  |  DUBOIS

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Dubois Maternal Roots In Kahnawake

French Canadian Pioneers: The Dubois of Quebec

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EXTERNAL LINKS

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Dubois Family / Cypress Hills Metis Hunting Band [Gabriel Dumont Institute]

Dubois, Francois Xavier [Red River Ancestry]

North-West Resistance [The Canadian Encyclopedia]

Veterans and Families of the 1885  Northwest Resistance [Louis Riel Institute]

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