Villeneuve | Metis, Montagnais, Slavi, Mixed-heritage: French, Cree | Surname Anchor Post

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  |  VILLENEUVE

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• Surname lists: Surname Anchor Posts
• Regions:  Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, The Territories
• Ethnicity:  Metis, Montagnais, Slavi / Esclave, Mixed-heritage: French, Cree
• Associated surnames:  Allary, Amiot / Amyot, Atkinson, Boissonneau, Dumont, Groslouis, Henry, Hill, Kapiouapnokoue, Laplante, Larence, Mackay, Marchand, McGillis, Nolin, Paradis, Sero, Vallee.
• Misc.:
• Isidore Villeneuve (m. Matilda Henry) and Marie Villeneuve‘s husband Joseph Octave Nolin, Jr. are both listed on lists of Metis involved in the Restistance of 1885. 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].

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CENSUS DISTRICTS  |  VILLENEUVE

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ALBERTA

Edmonton | 41 (71)  (1911)

QUEBEC

Chicoutimi & Saguenay | Pointe Blene  (1911)

SASKATCHEWAN

The Territories | Egg Lake  (1901)

The Territories | Fish Creek (1901)

The Territories | Meota  (1901)

The Territories | Stony Lake  (1901) 

THE TERRITORIES

Athabaska Landing  (1901)

Athabaska a-4  (1901)  

Unorganized Terr. | Mackenzie d-2 (1901) 

Northwest Territories | Fort Providence  (1911)

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MARRIAGES  |  VILLENEUVE

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AION [CDN Marriage Extracts] [QC]

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

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

GIRO [CDN Marriage Extracts]  [QC]

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

N … | Native – First Peoples – Metis [CDN Marriage Extracts] [ON] Newhouse

NICH [CDN Marriage Extracts] [SK]

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

V …   [CDN Marriage Extracts] [ON-QC-SK-Western Canada Metis Scrip]

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RELATED POSTS  |   VILLENEUVE

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INDEXES

Main Index: Canadian Census Extracts by Region & by Nation

Index: Canadian Marriage Extracts in Alphabetical Order

Index: First Nations and Metis Surname Lists

OTHER POSTS

French Canadian Pioneers: The Villeneuves of Quebec

Reader Query: Duquettes in Caughnawaga | Part 1/3

French Canadian Pioneers: The Amyots of Quebec

EXTERNAL LINKS

North-West Resistance [The Canadian Encyclopedia]