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Dearest Mother: Appendix 2 – Laurence Long’s Account of Eliza Desmarais.

An account of Eliza’s colourful life by her grandson. The following comes from Eliza’s grandson Laurence Long, recounted in Fort Macleod: Our Colorful Past, published 1977. Eliza Demerais [sic] was born and educated in Westbourne, Manitoba in 1862. She married Michael Scheer in Carrot River and resided in Prince Albert until 1884, at which timeContinue reading “Dearest Mother: Appendix 2 – Laurence Long’s Account of Eliza Desmarais.”

Dearest Mother Pt 8: Cards from Friends

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”