Fisher | Metis, Algonquin, BC First Nations, Chippewa, Iroquois, Ojibway, Saulteaux, Mixed-heritage

Fisher | Metis, Algonquin, BC First Nations, Chippewa, Iroquois, Ojibway, Saulteaux, Mixed-heritage | 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 | FISHER

Surname lists: Surname Anchor Posts, Metis [ON]
Regions: British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Territories
Ethnicity: Metis, Algonquin, BC First Nations, Chippewa, Iroquois, Ojibway, Saulteaux, Mixed-heritage
Associated surnames: Amikwabe, Beaulieu, Bergis, Bousquet, Boyer, Brabant, Cawaneska / Kochens, Cayole / Dumont, Chalifoux, Courville, Desjarlais, Desmarais, Dufond / Inini, Falcon, Fleury, Hill, Kakionhenton / Metchel, Kawennahere, Klyne, Lacelle, Lacouture, Laframboise,Laliberte, Langevin, Leach, Ledoux, Letendre, Lisee, Martin, McGuire, McLeod, Montour, Netawassang, Nonaponkouns, Nuhkatow, Ojoimasaguogie, Osahgee, Pelletier, Pilon, Plante, Poitras, Pontheguagui, Powless, Primeau, Racette, Ross, Scott, Sinclair, Soney, Spence, Stacey, Sylvestre, Tourond, Vandale, Vermette, Villebrun, Wabikwans / Wabicon, Wapikoens / Wabukance,.
Misc.: – 1. One Algonquin lineage descends from Michel Fisher / Wabikwans / Wabicons and Catherine Mauroit / Ikewich [Source: Jean-Guy Paquin]. 2. The Metis Nation of Ontario recognize Joseph Fisher and Lisette Netawassang as a Metis root couple. Their lineage descends through their daughter Agnes Kadjish and Patrick Sylvester McGuire. 3. Red River Ancestry lists a lineage through Manitoba surveyor Frederick John George Fischer and Sarah Stevenson. 4. Seven Fishers (Alexander, Alfred, George (x 2), John, Pierre and William) signed the September 1880 Metis Petition of the Qu’Appelle Settlement which was asserting rights for land, hunting and trading [Source: Fisher Family of the Qu’Appelle River Valley [Institute Gabriel Dumont] 5. The Hudson’s Bay Company has service records for five Fishers (2 Alexanders, 1 Baptiste and 2 Henrys) as well as a Frederick Fischer. You can reach those records by clicking on the External Links at the bottom of this post. Note: These HBC service records relate to employees who worked in traditional indigenous territories and who may or may not have started mixed-heritage families. 5. Some Metis Fishers (or their spouses) were involved in the 1885 North-West Resistance (formerly known as The North-West Rebellion). They include: Alexandre Fisher Jr. (m. Margaret Racette), Elisabeth Fisher (m. Louis Bousquet), Elise Fisher (m. Leon Esdras Parenteau) and Virginie Fisher (m. David Tourond). 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.