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I just want to congratulate you on your very informative site. I have been trying to research Metis ancestors for a friend of mine and found your site. I have a very great interest in Canadian and USA history. I have Quaker ancestors as well as French Canadians. Your comments on racism and its founders in our country was informative as well. My husband and I have been targets of White Supremist in B.C. and Alberta, because of our surname of Kisch. My friend that I am doing Metis research for has also been a target of the W S, so we know what prejudice is all about. 

Thank you again for your site and sharing it with others. 

Sandra Kisch - 01-2004

I was delighted to discover your site & some of my ancestors listed in it. 
Thanks so much for your response.

Sarah Judson - 01-2004

I have been using your web site and think it is informative and important.
Thanks for the good you do.

Blair Bohr - 01-2004

May I complement you on the high quality of your site.  
I am sure that your work will serve as a useful tool for researchers for generations to come.
Thank you for sharing this with us.

Keith Gauthier - 01-2004

Thank you for your wonderful Site.
I would like to commend you for your enormous effort in creating this resource.

Ralph Gravelle - 01-2004

Thank you for all the work you have done in posting all this info on the net, its wonderful.

Lisa - 01-2004

Great website
Your website is fantastic!

Art Haines - 01-2004

I have been collecting Metis families history for our area 
which is Lac La Biche and found your works.
Whow!!!!
The extensive work you have done is unbelievable in the least.
Very interesting to read.

Millie Lansing (Ladouceur) - 02-2004

I stumbled across your site
I would like to thank you for making your work available

Brian Franzene - 02-2004

I was glad to run across your web site.
I am a rabid genealogist.
My ancestors are Hawaiians and Metis.
I will save this site and peruse it latter when I have time to absorb.
Any way, aloha from Hawaii!

Roree Oehlman - 02-2004

My name is Jeffrey Turcotte, a Metis, who's family is from Fishing Lake, Alberta (Flamond and McLean stock).
I spent about two years living in St. Paul with my grandmother as well as spending many of my childhood summer vacations in Fishing Lake.
I have recently found myself interested in my family genealogy and along with my wife will be looking deeply into this.
Your website brought some hope to someone who until recently (not) the most proud of his heritage.
Your website helped me to push away that regrettable thinking, Thanks to you!

Jeffery Turcotte - 02-2004

Mii gwetch mind-nidgi

A fine piece of work

Alexandra - 02-2004

I just discovered your web site through Google
I was amazed with all the facts you collected and are publishing.
It seems to be a fantastic source of information.
Thank you for sharing all this information.

Patricia Baril - 02-2004

Your web site is of great interest
thank you for your detailed work
I haven't finished reading but wanted to share my satisfaction
to find this global work.

Serge Roze des Ordons - 03-2004

Love your site! I find it very educating.

Monashee Sun - 03-2004

First I must thank you for your site.
At first, I visited your site for the Garneaux connections I have in my SD family 
that are part of my Rosebud Reservation past;
then for my MS connections, that are part of my daily life.
I thank you for giving me some information and insight into what they are going through.  

Gina - 03-2004

RD, thanks for your website.
I am an amateur historian having collected many hundreds of books.
I commend you for your research and for providing us (me) with a source reference.
I also thank you for the quote "History is a collection of conflicting views of any event".
Studying history is a challenge that is created by these conflicting views.

Wayne King - 03-2004

You have a great site, with an enormous amount of good information!
You obviously have put a lot of effort and consideration into the project.
You really do have a wonderful site on Metis culture and relations!!!

Nick Sheedy - 03-2004

I have emailed you before regarding your website.
I just wanted to thank you again for the detailed work you have put into the website.
I really appreciate the compilation you have stored.

Teresa Green - 03-2004

Upon researching Egyptian kings/pharaohs, I came upon your site. 
Thanks for all of your work ! 
Your documentation of history is succinct and enjoyable 
(definitely a 'bookmark' for many future hours of reading).
Also, on your homepage,...I appreciated your comments about "birth, women/children, environment.
I look forward to seeing Canada, and certainly plan to move 'north'. 
Currently, I am a rancher in southern New Mexico. 
The land is spacious, but the gov't has ruined everything. 
"All to Say"...a quick, well guarded visit...at the most.

Linda - 03-2004

I would like to comment on the information provided in your website 
because it is really innacurate regarding the relationship and history of 
the French and natives in North America.
First you generalize, you falsely state innacurate information, and 
may I ask were are the Acadians of maritimes??  
They were also French, but I can't seem to find them, 
you seem to include all the French of the early 17th century in New France.  
I think that you should go read more books on Canadian colonial history.
If you would like a reading list, I am sure I could get one for you

Jeremie Louis LeBlanc - 03-2004
Ma. Candidate
Department of History
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, NB

I just found your website, and I think it will be very helpful for my own research. 
The little that I have read has been fascinating.

Melissa Cryer - 03-2004

Just wanted to THANK YOU so much for your site!
I has helped me in locating some family members in my genealogy searching
and has given me a better understanding of the history of my area!
THANK YOU so much for being so generous in sharing on the web!

Patsy Lethgo - 03-2004

Tansi ! I am wondering if you know when and where the first Canadian Indian Reserve was?
I used your search engine (which I really like) but didn't find this time what I was looking for.

I will continue to say " your site is worth a million"!

May you be well and have enough~

Sarah Queener-Plourde - 04-2004
Willamette Valley, Oregon

I am taking a course in Quebec history this semester, and 
I am using your website as one of the references. 
I'm bad with navigation, and may have missed it on your page, 
but what motivated you to create this webpage? 
Who is your intended audience? 
Was there a certain view or opinion about Canadian history that you wanted reflected through your work? 
Any answers, or even a short and sweet bio of yourself would be greatly appreciated.


Cynthia Pike - 04-2004
Concodia University

I am amazed at the amount of work involved in obtaining all the info on this website!
Thank you so much, it enabled me to find some of my family.

Charlotte Johnson - 04-2004

I like your website.
Found it by mistake, --- I was researching my genealogy.
Again, loved your website.

Meg Sans Souci - 04-2004

Fantastic website you have.
Good evening and what an incredible website you have.
I want to remark how fantastic it is.
It's been more than two hours that I've spent on your page alone, just reading and reading.
Your website has enlightened me very much and I plan to return and read more.
It is truly fascinating, including the Metis section.
I've learned a lot more than I had expected, thanks to your background in this area.
You deserve an award for your "site".
Please do continue with the European History page.

Ms. Diane Lacasse - 04-2004

What a wonderful place to find. Have been searching above surnames sine ca 1995. 
Completed my Tremblay tree. But Landry, Gotten no where. 
But will search in here and just maybe get lucky.
Thank you for wonderful searching grounds.

Viola. - 04-2004

What a wonderful place to find.
Thank you for a wonderful searching grounds.

Viola - 04-2004

Thank you for your most interesting and informative web-site.
I was unaware of the Metis People until searching the various portholes of information.

Rosalind Dooley - 04-2004

I have really enjoyed your writings on the history of our (Anishinabee) people 
and the wonderful bits of history concerning the wide spectrum you have covered 
from Europe to North America etc.

Norm Fontaine - 04-2004

I have been to your site many times, each time I return it is like returning home.
How are you doing-your health was tipsy the last time I visited-pray you are in better health, 
the loss would be ours the wit, humor, honor, and wisdom is so eloquently put on your website.
I find it interesting, the idea of what came first in the agricultural revolution of the Europeans,
 "Was it bread or alcohol?"

Marlene Owl Simon - 05-2004

Thank you for providing the information found on your website.
(A correction and value-add was provided.)
Thanks again for providing all that info on the Cadotte family!

E. Dahi - 05-2004

Thank you so much. I kinda fell into this site while looking for info on petroglyphs, mi'kmaq which I love.
My grandmother taught me the medicine way as well as the wisdom at a time when it was not nice to be native. I am so glad that I chose to walk this pathway. It gave me the pride and strength in who I am.
Again I say wellalin, thank you. I will return to this site often and will pass it on to others.

Grandmother Jeorgina Sagaligesgw
Mi'kmaq elder and grandmother - 05-2004

Your web site is so good, and so nicely done, I have it as my favorites.
I can appreciate the work you must have done to create such a masterpiece,
and for you to share all its contents is so much appreciated.
I can't find my family mentioned, 
although I do feel I walked and lived through their experiences with them by reading all you have presented, thanks!

Timothy Waters - 05-2004

Your site is wonderful!

Paul Bunnell - 06-2004

I found your site very informative
and I think these are my people as listed on your site.

Theresa Majeran - 06-2004

Just a note to say thank you and I love your site.
I see many of the fragments of knowledge I picked up in my research mentioned on your pages,
except yours is more coherently collated than mine.

Starlene Johnson - 06-2004

Thanks for your interesting and informative site.

Dan Bazuin - 06-2004

Your Site Is Great
I had to comment on your site.
I have lived in my present home and area for nearly 50 years and 
I have seen and remember many things.
It is the best, reading that I have read in some time.
I find that the information is easy to digest and it has answered many questions 
about Alberta and Edmonton which have been playing on my mind too.
Its a wonderful, an informative collection of events that you have created here 
and I just had to say Thank you for sharing.

Maureen Naegeli aka Pankey - 06-2004

Great job
You have created a wonderful site.

Denis Nadeau - 06-2004

Just wanted to let you know how wonderful I thought your site is.
Your history time-line is amazing for anyone doing Canadian genealogy
and is a real education --- it should be taught in school!
I will certainly visit often and I progress in my research and will link to it
when I get my own family web page going.

Carol Marion - 07-2004

THANK YOU FOR YOUR AMAZING SITE!!!

Art Grrl - 07-2004

Just discovered your website while seeking info on northern McKay history. I 
have much to learn.
Very fascinating---thank you very much for sharing it ! 

Betsi McKay - 07-2004

I just want to thank you for allowing the public to view your sections titled "European History" 
and for allowing individuals to copy it.
I have been doing the genealogy of my families and thought it would be very good to have a reference like an historic timeline as an aid. 
I found your site through Google, doing a search for "European History" as I knew Italy had not been born as a republic until 1860.

Linda - 07-2004

I am grateful to Mr. Garneau for kindly sharing his research, without which, I may not have been able to realize my French-Canadian ancestry. For me, it was a revelation that my maternal line is Metis French-HoChunk/Winnebago-Menominee (Descaris-Hopoekaw). When family members were asked about an Indian bloodline their answer was, "Not!"
Mr. Garneau's work has also helped me to begin to understand how politics played on the Metis Culture and how politics shaped the loss of the Metis Culture in the U.S.

Connie Lea Fredericks State - 07-2004

Thank you again! I shared some of your site info and links with a new
friend of mine and they called this morning to tell me how excited they were
to see some info on their "Vandalle" family.
As I said before, it is certainly an inspiration!
*Hugs* for all your hard work!

Lori-Anne Malone - 07-2004

50 years is a long, long time but I'm ecstatic that you have remained true to the cause and more importantly, you have kept your site free to the public. Thank you, your work is deeply appreciated.

 Jackie Trotchie -08-2004

Thanks you for your lovely work (oh, the thousands of hours!) 
in creating the Indian History pages.
I stumbled across them today, while looking for
material on Ojibwa healing ritual, and I was delghted.
Almost 40 years ago, I was given an "American
History" course to teach in a college in California,
and I took the term seriously -- but found almost no
information gathered (except a fine old book on 1st
peoples by a woman named Ruth...). 
Anyway, I struggled over the next few years to pull
together some of the materials you have so
beautifully synthesized -- and with such a strong
understanding of "history" as storytelling. 
I'm so glad to see the work leaping forward in my
lifetime. 

 Mark Hein -09-2004

Pointed out a date problem which was corrected.
Thanks!

 C.P. Walters -09-2004

You have a great site!

Micky LoPresti 09-2004

I enjoyed reading your Garneau history online. 

Elizabeth 09-2004

I consider myself as an aspiring Metis Historian who has seen your site recently. 
I have looked at your Metis Section of your site; and I find it interesting.

Del Majorie 10-2004

It is odd to "talk" to a Mr. Garneau who doesn't speak French. 
But that comes with Canadian history, I guess.
Your site holds a fantastic wealth of information, but unfortunately is not
user-friendly. I wish I could use this valuable information, but reading
full-screen endless lines of historical data mixed with Metis resentment is
too much. If your goal is to defend the Metis, fine, set up such a site; if
it's to give historical data, do that. But don't mix the two. History never
gains from after-the-fact interpretation.
Please see this as a friendly, constructive comment, since I greatly admire
what you have gathered and that my interest is precisely trying to tie
Quebec families with Western (and Western starts with the Ottawa River!)
Metis families. (If, on my part, I can supply information about the
St-Lawrence Valley families, I'll gladly do so.)
I ended up on your site trying to find Detroit's Ste-Anne records. It seems
that you' have used them, but since there is no reference, one can just guess.
I hope you didn't find my approach too direct.

Denise Latremouille 11-2004

Many thanks for this valuable piece of information.  
We have had many different ideas put forward, and 
even the Meti Hertage Centre in Winnipeg knew nothing of it.

(The number in question comes from 
'The Genealogy of the First Metis Nation' as compiled by D.N. Sprague and R.P. Frye.)

Peter Lawford 11 - 2004

I have been enjoying your work on Coureurs de bois and voyagers in the Mississippi Valley.  
The family I am tracing and planning to write a history on is, Roy dit Chatellerault.  

Your website is a fine representation of the history.

Roy Kennrth 11-2004

Hello, I am doing a paper on the novel Tracks, by Louisew Erdrich and 
I would like to use some of the information in your website

 Christina -12-2004

Since your site is on my favorites list, I spend time going over your research, all very interesting and enjoyable to read.  Thank you.

 Allen Lepage -12-2004

Your website is my favorite.

 Sarah Q-Plourde -12-2004

Wow, your site is remarkable. 
I have already spent hours enjoying the information you have posted. 
I enjoy also the quotes.

Joyce Scott 12-2004

Hi. Great site

 Len Flutrer -12-2004

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