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  • Métis Veterans of Manitoba: From Buffalo to Battlefields
  • The Battle of Seven Oaks: A Métis Perspective
  • The Boundary Commission's Métis Scouts: The 49th Rangers
  • Women of the Métis Nation
Métis Firsts in North America

Métis Veterans of Manitoba: From Buffalo to Battlefields

When World War One was declared, volunteers from all areas of the Métis nation came forward to join the Canadian Army.  They had to forget the inhumane treatment which other Canadian soldiers had recently inflicted on their fathers and mothers during the dark days of 1870 and 1885.  They set aside these sad stories and feelings to fight a common enemy.  Germany was waging war against France, a country that many Métis felt a bond with as many of their ancestors had come from there.  They were as anxious to visit France as a child would be to visit a grandparent.

Written by: A. Brian Cyr CD

Price: $29.95

210 pages - paperback

Suggested grades: High School - University (or as a teacher's resource)

ISBN # 978-0-9809912-2-2 (Volume 1)

The Battle of Seven Oaks: A Métis Perspective

The Battle of Seven Oaks was a culmination of the Pemmican Wars and the escalating fur trade disputes between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company.  Most of Governor Semple's men who were killed in this confrontation were part of an Irish paramilitary force hired by Selkirk to cut off the North West Company's trade.  Most accounts of this encounter are one-sided and do not list the men from both sides who were involved in this battle.  This monograph will correct these omissions.  The widely held beliefs that the battle was against the Selkirk Settlers and that Cuthbert Grant attacked Governor Semple are shown to be false.

Written by: Lawrence J. Barkwell

Price: $9.95

40 pages - paperback

Suggested Grades: High School to University (or as a teacher's resource)

ISBN # 978-0-9809912-9-1

The Boundary Commission's Métis Scouts: The 49th Rangers

In 1872, the formal survey of the border between Canada and the United States began.  The Commission surveyed from the Northwest Angle of the Lake of the Woods to the Red River over the winter of 1872-73.  They used Métis guides and Chippewa men to assist them with this task.

During 1873 and 1874, the Boundary Commission surveyed from Pembina to the Rocky Mountains.  The British Commission employed William Hallett and 30 armed Métis guides and scouts, the subject of this monograph.

Written by: Larry Haag and Lawrence J. Barkwell

Price: $9.95

56 pages - paperback

Suggested grades: High School to University (or as a teacher's resource)

ISBN # 978-0-9809912-4-6

Women of the Métis Nation

This book is intended to give the reader an overview of Métis history through the biographies of a very diverse cross section of North America's Métis women.  We attempt to correct the oversight of previous historical treatments which have failed to document the lives of Métis women.

Métis women were integral to all endeavours. Métis women played important roles in commercial and domestic production and in the political life of what was to become the Canadian and American Northwest.  Métis women were the clothing designers, doctors, pharmacists, midwives, peacekeepers, teachers, artists and agriculturalists.  Métis women were the children's teachers and keepers of the Métis languages.

Within this volume, well-known Métis personalities (such as writers Louise Erdrich and Maria Campbell) as well as the unsung heroes of Métis communities and families are documented.

Written through the contributions of various authors.  Edited by: Lawrence J. Barkwell

Price: $24.95

188 pages - paperback

Suggested Grades: High school to university (or as a teacher's resource)

ISBN # 978-0-9809912-5-3

Métis Firsts in North America: Many Little Known Facts About the Métis

Métis contributions to North American life and history.  Many other entries relate interesting Métis trivia.

Compiled by: Lawrence J. Barkwell

Price: $5.95

76 pages - paperback

ISBN # 978-0-9865369-5-3

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