Métis - Doduk Family History

My mother was born in Duncan, BC in 1947 and adopted.

When she was 50 years old (in 1997) she applied to see her adoption records.

I used copies of those records and the info in them, and created a small little family tree website to put the information out there, and forgot about it as the years went by.

Then in 2012, I received an email from a woman that said, I think we are cousins. She had been Google searching her grandmother’s name and found my old family tree site.

At that point, we discovered that my mother had 4 half-sisters and a half-brother. My mom’s half-sisters had done a proper genealogy trace for their mother’s heritage and discovered we are Métis.

https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/section/metis/

The family history is extensive and traces all the way back to the Fur Traders that worked for Hudson Bay Company – before Canada even became a country named Canada.

On September 30th, 2023 – Canada’s newest holiday called National Day for Truth and Reconciliation I posted a series of information on my X account detailing some of my Métis family tree. This site and the list below contain much more information on the people in my family tree.

#TruthAndReconciliation Day.

I am a Métis. This is my card. I provided an extensive genealogical history of my mother's mother's mothers to prove it.

Yeah it's a chick thing.

The Métis people were created when European men married indigenous women in North America. pic.twitter.com/cmIbaZtjAk
— Barbara Doduk (@BarbaraDoduk) October 1, 2023