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    Métis land base: the eight Métis settlements, with a population of approximately 5,000 people on 1.25 million acres (5,100 km2) and the newer Metis lands...
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  • A knit cap is a piece of knitted headwear designed to provide warmth in cold weather. It usually has a simple tapered shape, although more elaborate variants...
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  • through the Métis and Non-Status Indian Relations Directorate of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. The Métis and Non-Status...
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  • municipality of Saint-Octave-de-Métis, and the municipality of Grand-Métis); in the County of Gaspé West: the village municipality of Cap-Chat, the parish municipality...
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  • Îles-de-la-Madeleine L'Islet Lotbinière Métis-sur-Mer Neuville Notre-Dame-du-Portage Percé Sainte-Pétronille Sainte-Rose-du-Nord Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly...
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    was that the Métis people were not familiar with the enforcement of laws, and the concept of deeds and money - this resulted in many Métis people being...
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    Louis Riel (category Canadian Métis people)
    Franco-Chipewyan Métis descent, had gained prominence in this community by organizing a group that supported Guillaume Sayer, a Métis arrested and tried...
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    North-West Rebellion (category Métis in Canada)
    persons in the western Prairies, and even some Métis. Riel had the allegiance of about 250 armed Métis, 250 Indigenous fighters and at least one white...
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    Capote (garment) (category Métis culture)
    of different colors; blue was preferred by the Catholic Métis and white by the Protestant Métis while grey was worn by both. A sash was worn around the...
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    Saint-Octave-de-Métis became the Municipality of Grand-Métis. The Municipality of Saint-Octave-de-Métis-Sud became the Parish of Saint-Octave-de-Métis. Creation...
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    Saint-Jérôme is: 91.8% White 1.8% Indigenous; 1.0% First Nations, 0.6% Métis 1.3% Latin American 3.2% Black 0.1% South Asian 0.2% East Asian; 0.2% Chinese...
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    (418) 379 (581) 296 Cacouna: see Rivière-du-Loup Cap-Chat: (418) 786 (581) 395 Cap-Saint-Ignace: (418) 246 715 Cap-Santé: see Donnacona Caplan: (418) 388...
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  • Port-Cartier and municipality of Rivière-Pentecôte. City of Métis-sur-Mer: Former village of Métis-sur-Mer and municipality of Les Boules. City of Lac-Etchemin:...
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    Labrador include the Northern Inuit of Nunatsiavut, the Southern Inuit-Métis of NunatuKavut, and the Innu of Nitassinan. Labrador is named after João...
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    Saint Benedict Abbey, Sanctuaire Notre-Dame-du-Cap [fr], Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Marie-Reine-du-Monde de Montréal Basilica-Cathedral, Saint-Michel...
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    Pemmican War (category Métis)
    pemmican was purchased from the local Métis and to a lesser degree from the local First Nations people and freemen. The Métis were the descendants of French...
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    Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Inuvialuit Nunangit Sannaiqtuaq), and both Métis and Nêhiyawak countries (Michif Piyii and ᓀᐦᐃᔮᓈᕁ nêhiýânâhk, respectively)...
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    Indigenous peoples in present-day Canada include the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, the last being of mixed descent who originated in the mid-17th century...
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    the French in 1677. Though under continuous French administration since, métis families, descended from Dutch and French traders and African wives, dominated...
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    Sources: Pointe-Mitis Lighthouse, Métis-sur-mer, built in 1909 Cap de la tête au chien Lighthouse, Saint-Siméon Cap-au-Saumon Lighthouse, Port-au-Persil...
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    Jackie Vautour (category Canadian people who self-identify as being of Métis descent)
    the inhabitants of the communities liquidated to form Kouchibouguac are Métis (i.e., they descend from both Mi'kmaq and early European settlers), and...
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    the area were Indigenous peoples of the Americas – Algonquins, Innu and Métis – who lived near Lake Kapibouska. Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The...
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  • Saint-Gédéon Not to be confused with the current municipality of Sainte-Anne-du-Lac Not to be confused with the current parish of Saint-Gérard-Majella Not...
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    neighbouring towns of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap, Saint-Louis-de-France, Trois-Rivières-Ouest, and the municipality of Pointe-du-Lac, were combined...
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    administered in three geographic provinces: Notre-Dame-du-Cap (French), housed at Notre-Dame-du-Cap Basilica in Trois-Rivières, Quebec Lacombe (English)...
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    North American fur trade during its peak importance, and is home to many Métis people who originated in that trade. The area was mostly part of Rupert's...
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    House of Slaves (French: Maison des esclaves), built by an Afro-French Métis family about 1780–1784. The House of Slaves is one of the oldest houses...
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  • ISBN 978-0-628-03769-5. Someone who hates Afrikaners and tries to harm or prejudice them du Preez, Max (2004). Pale Native: Memories of a Renegade Reporter. Cape Town:...
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    Rouge and New Orleans in the United States; and Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haïtien (founded as Cap-Français) in Haiti, Saint-Pierre and Fort Saint-Louis (formerly...
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    Census, indigenous peoples (First Nations – 851,560, Inuit – 59,445 and Métis – 451,795) numbered at 1,400,685, or 4.3% of the country's total population...
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