Métis Profiles
Métis Profiles
Meet some really amazing people who say or who said "I am Métis."
Featured Story
Soleil Letourneau
Soleil, a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta, is currently a fourth year student at the University of British Columbia in Behavioural Neuroscience. She hopes to take a gap year and then hopefully to attend medical school. Her dream currently is to be a medical doctor and specifically a dermatologist. She is dedicated to representing Métis and Indigenous women as a scientist and as a future physician. Soleil has a background in music, completing Grade 10 in violin with the Royal Conservatory of Music. She has been a competitive rower, rugby player, and a champion swimmer. She is also an active snowboarder and skateboarder, and helped to found luminous skateboards, a skateboard company with her siblings and father.
Soleil is a contributor to this website.
Featured Story
Jesse Thistle
Jesse Thistle is a profoundly interesting and influential academic and author. He is a very inspiring Métis educator and leader. Read more about him at https://jessethistle.com/
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Audrey Poitras
As the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA) President, Audrey Poitras is one of the highest profile Métis women in Canada and has been an advocate for Métis rights. Elected as the first female President in 1996, she has since become the longest-serving President of the MNA.
Poitras has been an advocate for Métis rights and will continue to move the Métis rights agenda forward with the help of the Daniels Supreme Court decision in 2016.
More info to follow.
Historic Métis Profiles
Learn more about important and historic Métis people
Historic Metis Leaders - Charles Nolin, Métis leader, Member of Parliament
- Audrey Poitras, Métis leader, long-time President of the Métis Nation of Alberta
- Herb Belcourt, Métis leader, philanthropist
- Howard Adams, Métis activist, author, and leader
- Andre Beauchemin, Métis; First Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for St. Vital (French Party) 1870-1874.
- Pierre Bottineau, Minnesota frontiersman, surveyor, diplomat and translator
- Michel "Mitch" Bouyer, Métis of French Canadian and Sioux ancestry; interpreter and guide in the Old West; lead scout with the US Seventh Cavalry
- James P. Brady, Métis politician and activist
- Pierre Delorme, Métis politician and activist. Elected as a Member of Parliament in 1871, defeated in 1874 and re-elected in 1878.[3]
- Gabriel Dumont, Métis military leader during the North-West Rebellion
- Cuthbert Grant, Métis political and military leader
- James Isbister, Canadian Métis leader considered to be the founder of the city of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
- Thomas McKay, Metis farmer and political figure who was the first mayor of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
- John Norquay, Métis politician, Premier of Manitoba from 1878 to 1887
- Malcolm Norris, Alberta Métis politician, activist, and leader.
- Louis Riel, Métis leader who led the Red River Rebellion in 1869 - 1870, the provisional government of Rupert's Land, Manitoba's entry into Confederation in 1870; later led the North-West Rebellion in 1885[4] Riel was elected three times to the House of Commons for Provencher riding
- Guillaume Sayer, Métis fur trader whose trial was a turning point in the ending of the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) of the fur trade in North America.
- Louis Schmidt, Métis politician, Riel's Secretary and, in their youth, Riel's classmate.
Sports
- Arron Asham, professional ice hockey player
- Sharon Bruneau, a Canadian champion bodybuilder
- René Bourque, NHL hockey player
- Kyle Chipchura, NHL player
- Kerri Einarson, Canadian national curling champion
- Theoren Fleury, Canadian former professional ice hockey player
- Travis Hamonic, professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames
- Dwight King, professional ice hockey player for the Los Angeles Kings
- Heather Mandoli, Canadian Olympic Rower; of Métis ancestry
- Vic Mercredi, Atlanta Flames first round draft pick
- Kevin O'Toole, 1996 North American light heavyweight bodybuilding champion
- Wade Redden, NHL defenceman
- Sheldon Souray, NHL defenceman
- Bryan Trottier, NHL Hall of Fame center
Politicians, activists, lawyers, physicians and judges - André Beauchemin, politician in Manitoba.
- Rod Bruinooge, Member of Parliament
- Brian Bowman, mayor of Winnipeg
- Thelma J Chalifoux, community activist; First Aboriginal Woman appointed to the Senate of Canada, established Michif Cultural and Resource Institute,[14]
- Clément Chartier, Métis Canadian leader who served as President of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples
- David Chartrand, Métis politician and aboriginal activist in Manitoba, Canada
- Todd Ducharme, appointed as a judge in 2004 of the Ontario Supreme Court of Justice.
- Shelly Glover, Member of Parliament
- Carole James, former British Columbia New Democratic Party leader
- Bertha Clark-Jones, Cree-Métis activist and Royal Canadian Air Force member.
- Rick Laliberte, Canadian former politician from Beauval, Saskatchewan who is fluent in Cree-Michif
- Glen McCallum, Métis politician from Pinehouse Saskatchewan who served as President of Métis Nation—Saskatchewan
- Bob McLeod, former Canadian politician.
- D'Arcy McNickle, writer, Native American activist, college professor and administrator, and anthropologist of Irish and Cree-Métis descent.
- Gerald Morin, Métis politician who served as president of the Métis National Council and the Métis Nation—Saskatchewan
- Derrick O'Keefe, Rabble.ca editor; Canadian anti-war movement leader
- Dan Vandal, Member of Parliament
- Charles Nolin, Métis leader, Member of Parliament
- Audrey Poitras, Métis leader, long-time President of the Métis Nation of Alberta
- Herb Belcourt, Métis leader, philanthropist
- Howard Adams, Métis activist, author, and leader
- Andre Beauchemin, Métis; First Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for St. Vital (French Party) 1870-1874.
- Pierre Bottineau, Minnesota frontiersman, surveyor, diplomat and translator
- Michel "Mitch" Bouyer, Métis of French Canadian and Sioux ancestry; interpreter and guide in the Old West; lead scout with the US Seventh Cavalry
- James P. Brady, Métis politician and activist
- Pierre Delorme, Métis politician and activist. Elected as a Member of Parliament in 1871, defeated in 1874 and re-elected in 1878.[3]
- Gabriel Dumont, Métis military leader during the North-West Rebellion
- Cuthbert Grant, Métis political and military leader
- James Isbister, Canadian Métis leader considered to be the founder of the city of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
- Thomas McKay, Metis farmer and political figure who was the first mayor of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
- John Norquay, Métis politician, Premier of Manitoba from 1878 to 1887
- Malcolm Norris, Alberta Métis politician, activist, and leader.
- Louis Riel, Métis leader who led the Red River Rebellion in 1869 - 1870, the provisional government of Rupert's Land, Manitoba's entry into Confederation in 1870; later led the North-West Rebellion in 1885[4] Riel was elected three times to the House of Commons for Provencher riding
- Guillaume Sayer, Métis fur trader whose trial was a turning point in the ending of the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) of the fur trade in North America.
- Louis Schmidt, Métis politician, Riel's Secretary and, in their youth, Riel's classmate.
Sports
- Arron Asham, professional ice hockey player
- Sharon Bruneau, a Canadian champion bodybuilder
- René Bourque, NHL hockey player
- Kyle Chipchura, NHL player
- Kerri Einarson, Canadian national curling champion
- Theoren Fleury, Canadian former professional ice hockey player
- Travis Hamonic, professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames
- Dwight King, professional ice hockey player for the Los Angeles Kings
- Heather Mandoli, Canadian Olympic Rower; of Métis ancestry
- Vic Mercredi, Atlanta Flames first round draft pick
- Kevin O'Toole, 1996 North American light heavyweight bodybuilding champion
- Wade Redden, NHL defenceman
- Sheldon Souray, NHL defenceman
- Bryan Trottier, NHL Hall of Fame center
- André Beauchemin, politician in Manitoba.
- Rod Bruinooge, Member of Parliament
- Brian Bowman, mayor of Winnipeg
- Thelma J Chalifoux, community activist; First Aboriginal Woman appointed to the Senate of Canada, established Michif Cultural and Resource Institute,[14]
- Clément Chartier, Métis Canadian leader who served as President of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples
- David Chartrand, Métis politician and aboriginal activist in Manitoba, Canada
- Todd Ducharme, appointed as a judge in 2004 of the Ontario Supreme Court of Justice.
- Shelly Glover, Member of Parliament
- Carole James, former British Columbia New Democratic Party leader
- Bertha Clark-Jones, Cree-Métis activist and Royal Canadian Air Force member.
- Rick Laliberte, Canadian former politician from Beauval, Saskatchewan who is fluent in Cree-Michif
- Glen McCallum, Métis politician from Pinehouse Saskatchewan who served as President of Métis Nation—Saskatchewan
- Bob McLeod, former Canadian politician.
- D'Arcy McNickle, writer, Native American activist, college professor and administrator, and anthropologist of Irish and Cree-Métis descent.
- Gerald Morin, Métis politician who served as president of the Métis National Council and the Métis Nation—Saskatchewan
- Derrick O'Keefe, Rabble.ca editor; Canadian anti-war movement leader
- Dan Vandal, Member of Parliament
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