Postcards to a Métis Matriarch In 2024, my father shared with me some postcards he had kept. They were passed down by his great-grandmother, Eliza Scheer (nee Desmarais) a Métis midwife who ran a boarding house in Fort MacLeod in the early decades of the 20th century. Most, but not all, were from her sonContinue reading “Dearest Mother Pt 8: Cards from Friends”
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Dearest Mother Pt 7: Cards from Family
Postcards to a Métis Matriarch In 2024, my father shared with me some postcards he had kept. They were passed down by his great-grandmother, Eliza Scheer (nee Desmarais) a Métis midwife who ran a boarding house in Fort MacLeod in the early decades of the 20th century. Most, but not all, were from her sonContinue reading “Dearest Mother Pt 7: Cards from Family”
Dearest Mother Pt 2: In a Continual Downpour
Postcards from a Métis Trooper in the First World War In 2024, my father shared with me some postcards he had kept. They were passed down by his great-grandmother, Eliza Scheer (nee Desmarais) a Métis midwife who ran a boarding house in Fort MacLeod in the early decades of the 20th century. Most were fromContinue reading “Dearest Mother Pt 2: In a Continual Downpour”
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