Pelletier | Metis, Cree, Ojibway, Ottawa, Mixed-heritage: Cree, French

Pelletier | Metis, Cree, Ojibway, Ottawa, Mixed-heritage: Cree, French | Surname Anchor Post

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

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 | PELLETIER

Surname lists: Surname Anchor Posts, Metis Surnames [ON],
Regions: Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan
Ethnicity: Metis, Cree, Ojibway, Ottawa, Mixed-heritage: Cree, French
Associated surnames: Amyot, Atchikate Sparvier, Ayatowew, Azure, Beauchemin, Bellegarde / Belgarde, Bercier, Birston, Black, Blondin / Blondeau, Bonneau, Boucher, Bourassa, Boyer, Brissette, Bruyere, Burnette, Cardinal, Carontay, Chalifoux, Chenail, Cluseau, Cochrane, Denomme, Deschamps, Descoteaux, Desjarlais, Desmarais, Ducharme, Fagnant, Favel, Fiddler, Fisher, Flamand / Flammand, Fleury, Fournier, Gagnon, Galarneau, Gonneville / Gunnvil, Gregoire, Hamelin, Houle, Jawana, Jourdain, Kanapeuishit, Klyne, La Crise, Lafontaine, Laframboise, Landry, Langee, Lapierre, Lemire, Listener, Mcnab, McGillis, Mediwash, Minnie, Mirouabeouit, Morin, Norris, Ouellet, Ouemoutabeu, Parisien, Patenaude, Pollet, Primeau, Racette, Rocheblanc, Sanderson, Shigwaria, Sioui, Sutherland / O-pee-tooka-kao, Swan / Swain, St. Denis, St. Germain, St. Pierre, Themichite, Titech, Trottier, Vallee, Watson.

Misc.:
1. In his thesis Ethnogenese des premiers metis canadiens (1601-1763), Denis Jean mentions several early Pelletier mixed marriages. (a) The earliest Pelletier mixed marriage took place with a descendant of settlers Nicolas Pelletier and Jeanne De Voisy who had arrived in the St. Lawrence Valley in 1636. Nicolas and Jeanne’s offspring spoke Montagnais (and possibly other languages), and one of them – Francois Pelletier dit Antaya married a First Nations woman named Dorothee (no surname) in 1660, although she died soon afterwards and it’s unknown whether the couple had children. (b) Nicolas Pellletier dit Marolles had three First Nations wives. The first was Madeleine Tegochix by whom he had one child (a girl),
2. Several Metis Pelletiers (or their spouses) were associated with the 1885 Resistance in Eastern Canada. They were: Edouard Pelletier (m. Madeleine Morin), Julie Pelletier (m. Maxime Flamand), Marie-Ma deleine Pelletier (m. Louison Lafontaine). The 1885 North-West Resistance involved the 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.
3. One common spelling variation of Pelletier is Peltier.