After the War of 1812, the Nolin family began to expand their connections and influence westward beyond the family’s home at Sault Ste....

The legacy of the prominent Métis Nolin family began with the marriage of Jean Baptiste Nolin, a French-Canadian fur trader, and Marie...

By the time Pierre Guillaume Sayer retired from the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1832, his family had grown and settled in Grantown (later...

The merger of the North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company in 1821 marked a turning point in the fur trade.   For Métis fur trade...

As Métis boys who grew up learning from their fur trader father in the vibrant fur trading posts of the Upper Great Lakes, Henry, Pierre...

Growing up in the heart of the historic fur trade, the Sayer brothers—Henry, Pierre Guillaume, and John Charles—were part the emergent...