Cold Lake Metis

Cold Lake Métis Settlement
1940 - 1956

(ST LOUIS DE MOOSE LAKE - BONNYVILLE AB)

Cold Lake Métis community was on the Old Buffalo Trail. Métis peoples as well as francophone Abenaki Aln8bak and Acadien Souriquois L'nu displaced from their own homeland N'dakina, Abenaki Territory (rive sud / south shore of the original Canadian now St Lawrence River / aujourd'hui la Rivière St Laurent originalement la Rivière Canadienne), started arriving in the area forming the Cold Lake Métis community in the early 1900s. By the 1930s the community near St Louis de Moose Lake now Bonnyville had become Cold Lake Métis colony. (Alberta Métis Colonies). Some of the families moved further north to the Wolf Lake Métis community which became the Wolf Lake Métis colony. Cold Lake Métis Settlement was established in 1940 and rescinded in 1956. Partly due to the efforts of the assimilationist residential and day school teachers (Roman Catholic) and partly to avoid discrimination and racism against Indigenous peoples, some of the people began to identify themselves as Franco-Albertans.

-- Kisikewiskw
13 Dec 2011

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