Location: Casselman, ON Origins: 2017 Status: Active Registration: Cost: History: # of Members: 60 initial members. Connections: Associated with CPAQ Contact: Supporting Docs Charboneau, Vicky, “La communauté Widjikiene est sur le point de voir le jour,” Le Reflet, April 26, 2017. Court Cases
Location: Sundridge, Ontario Origins: Status: Active Registration: No longer clear. Cost: $225 (according to Sarac v. Wilstar Management Ltd.) History: Incorporated in 2004 (“30,000 years and growing”) Signatory to the “Native Nations Intergovernmental Alliance Treaty” # of Members: Connections: Connected to the Kinakwii Nation Founding member of Alliance of Indigenous Nations Contact: https://www.anishinabeksolutreanmetis.com/contact Supporting Docs David Grey Eagle, Special Envoy for Grand Chief Wabiska Mukwa, showed up at a City of Pickering council meeting falsely claiming to represent the…
Location: Located in Barrie area. Origins: Status: Active Registration: Anybody with an ancestor, though focused on French settler-descendants. Cost: $25 “donation” for a card. History: Seems to be mostly online, claims to represent Great Lakes region. Quite active, received intervenor status in an Ontario Municipal Board hearing near Barrie, ON in 2016. “Montagnais” means Innu. # of Members: Connections: Contact: http://www.montagnaismetis.ca Supporting Docs Court Cases
Location: Bancroft, ON Origins: Status: Active Registration: Documented proof of an ancestor suffices. Cost: From $57 (5 years) to $320 (lifetime) membership fees, for individuals 12 years and older. History: Also known as Ontario Métis Family Records Centre # of Members: 10,000 in 2016 Connections: Contact: http://www.omfrc.org/painted-feather-woodland-metis/ Supporting Docs Vance, Sarah. “Metis Rights: The Road Ahead.” Bancroft This Week. May 27, 2016. Court Cases
Location: Vankleek Hill, ON, but represents the Windsor-Detroit corridor. Origins: Status: Active Registration: Anybody with a verified ancestor. “Voyageur Metis is a community registry of ‘Muskrats’, a well-documented term that has been used for generations to describe our people based on our culture – which arose along the waterways and fur trade routes of what was once New France, centrally from the historic Detroit fur trade post and in various surrounding ‘French Canadian’ communities along the waterways of…
Location: Noëlville, ON, Origins: Status: Registration: Cost: History: First public event in 2005 Website seems inactive, but their FB page is being updated. # of Members: Connections: Signed “treaty” with Council of First Metis People of Canada in 2017. Contact: http://www.frenchrivermetistribe.ca Supporting Docs Court Cases