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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 | FORTIN
- Regions:
- Alberta, Ontario, Quebec,
- Ethnicity:
- Chipeweyan, Metis, Mixed-heritage: Montagnais
- Associated surnames:
- Berard, Davieux, Decoine, Dufour, Filion, Gaudreau, Maltais, Murdock, Paul, Riverin, Skeene, St. Gelais, Guay, Whitford.
- Misc.: –
- One early Metis couple in western Canada were the French Canadian Pierre Berard and a Metis woman Marie Fortin. Metis scrip records show that they were married by 1834.
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CENSUS DISTRICTS | FORTIN
ALBERTA
Victoria | Grand Rapids (1911)
QUEBEC
Chicoutimi & Saguenay | Ouiatchouan (1901)
MARRIAGES | FORTIN
D …. [CDN Marriage Extracts] [ON]
DOKIS [CDN Marriage Extracts] [QC]
F …. [CDN Marriage Extracts] [QC-Western Canada Metis Scrip]
G … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [QC]
M … | [CDN Marriage Extracts] [QC]
MOBE [CDN Marriage Extracts [QC]
P … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [QC]
WHEE – Z [CDN Marriage Extracts] [Western Canada Metis Scrip]
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A Canadian Family 
Bonsoir to you 🙂 !
I was wondering if you could help me figure out some things about my family lines?
In email if possible 🙂 !
I’ve been searching for indigenous roots in both my paternal and maternal families, but it is very hard to find infos overall.
Do any of these surnames ring a bell for you? 🙂
My maternal side is Fortin – Levreault.
Andre Fortin (from Fortin and a Deneault) with Marguerite Levreault (from Levreault and a Olivier). Grandparents, they lived around St.Bernard / St.Bernard de Lacolle (or more largely, Le Haut-Richelieu / St.Jean sur Richelieu?), Quebec 🙂
My paternal side is Paris / maybe Parish?? – Boisvert.
Andre or Benoit (he went by both names) Paris (from Paris and a Tardif) with Suzanne Boisvert (from Boisvert and a Blanchet / Blanchette). Grandparents, they lived around Arthabaska / Victoriaville, Quebec.
I’m therefore wondering if these people from my family (or maybe their ancestors) could possibly be connected with indigenous roots?
I was also wondering if you have any kind of info on a Marie Martin “Matchoton”, who (maybe) has some ties to Abraham Martin (the Abraham Plains one)? That man being one of my ancestors 🙂 !
There seems to be terrible confusion online about whether Marie Martin Matchoton (who was a Huron or metis woman?) was Abraham’s sibling, wife, or daughter (or even, unrelated).
I know this is quite a lot… Thank you very much / Merci beaucoup for your time 🙂 !
(I also want to mention how nice your website is!! I’ve been spending hours on it, learning a ton of things 🙂 Very grateful to have found it, and for you to have made it / kept it updated for all these years!)
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