Like other Métis communities across the Homeland, Métis communities in the  Upper Great Lakes have relied on harvesting and deep...

George Atkinson was born at Moose Factory in February 1839 to Samuel Atkinson and Sara Mary Atkinson (nee Moore), whose Métis family had...

The Atkinson-Moore family, originally from Moose Factory, has grown and maintained deep connections throughout the Métis Homeland for...

Sara Mary Moore was born in Moose Factory in 1818. Her Métis father, George Moore Jr., was a steersman with the Hudson’s Bay Company...

Eustache Lesage was born in Sault Ste. Marie in 1833.   In November 1849, at the age of only 16, Lesage, fellow Métis leader Charles...

Following their exclusion from the 1850 Robinson-Huron Treaty and despite Treaty Commissioner Robinson’s recognition that the Métis were...