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The following are credited for contributing information and/or photographs used on this site:

Individuals Credited for Family Histories

Adams, Randy

Anderson, Annette

Anton, Monica

Balsillie, Clay

Barnes, William

Beatty, Patricia

Bingham, Leroy

Bingham, Rose & Russell

Bolinger, Dave

Brollier, Kathryn

Byrning, dorothy LaVatta

Cervantes, Angelo R.

Cline, Garry

Conway, Mary

Coutu, Lyle

Eymer, Sandra

Felsman, Eugene

Fortier, Alfred

Frost, Bob

Gentner, Don. Grant, Adrian C.

Grant, Amanda Lavoie

Grant, Daniel

Grant, Donald

Grant, Francis Nelson

Grant, Irene

Grant, James & Benita

Grant, Jon

Grant, Joyce

Grant, Kenneth

Grant, Lois & Richard

Grant, Lou S.

Grant, Patty & Terry

Grant, Peter

Grant, Scott

Hannibal, Tammi

Helming, Grace

Hendrikson, Chris

Holingshead, Doris

Holroyd, Raymond

Jones, Shauna

Kinder, Dale

Kinder, Hubert

King, Shirley

Lamb, James

LaVatta, Frank & Wynona

LaVatta, Ray

Lavoie, Rita & Geordie

Lindsay, Donald

Madril, Louis

Major, Antoinette and Arnold

Major, Eva

Majore, Del

Mason, Gary

McGinnis, Ellen

McIvor, TerryMcLeod, Audrey & Chester

Meikle, Lyndel

Middleton, Lorraine

Mommer, Hope

Morin, Gail & Bernie

Nexdorf, Harvey Brian

Nixdorf, Max

Nixdorf, Nelson & Evelyn

Nixdorf, Orvil

Ohlfs, Ronald

Orvis, Norma & Doug

Pambrun, Francois & Denise

Pauley, Nancey & family

Pettell, Frances

Peyton, Jean

Rapp, Eyvonne Paci

Ruby, Laurie

Running Crane, Janet

Sandberg, Denzel

Sandefur, Patrick

Scaletta, Maria

Shaw, Thelma

Smith, Donald

Soloway, Ken

Stewart, Connie

Suddards, Gail & David

Thomas, Doris Grant & Alex

Trahant, Mark

Verrier, Margaret Grant

Walker, Joyce

Warren, Patricia Nell

Watanabe, Barbara

Wells, Merle

Wheeler, Ralph

Winberg, Bill

Woodruff, Roxeanne, Sandra & Sue

author of Merriweather Lewis

recommended researcher

Cane specialist

Instituitions

Alberta Vital Statistics

Registry Connect

PO Box 386

Edmonton, Alberta

Anglican Archdioces Archives

Archives of Rupertsland

935 Nesbit Bay

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Brookside Cemetery

3001 Notre

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Carman Museum

Carman, Manitoba

Chancery Office

4445 Lindell Blvd

St. Louis, Missouri

Chancery Office

Diocese of Charlottetown

P.O. Box 907

Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Chancery Office - Archives

The Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton

8421 - 101 Avenue

Edmonton, Alberta

Church of Latter Day Saints/Mormon Library & Resources

Whitehorse, Yukon

City of Edmonton Archives

10440 - 108 Avenue

Edmonton, Alberta

Crown Land Records & Registry

1495 St. James Street

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Division of Vital Records

P.O. Box 1528

New Castle, PA 16103

U.S.A.

Eglise 'Christ Church' de Sorel-Tracy

Diocese de Montreal

75, Rue Prince-Sorel-Tracy

Quebec  J3P-4J7

Family History Department

Family History Centre

35 North West Teple Street

Salt Lake City, Utah

Glenbow Museum Archives

130 - 9 Avenue S.E.

Calgary, Alberta

Grant-Kohrs Ranch Historic Site

266 Warren Lane

Deer Lodge, Montana

Grant Lodge

Cooper Park

Elgin, Moray

Scotland 1V30 1HS

Hudson's Bay company Archives, Archives of Manitoba

200 Vaughan Street

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Idaho State Historical Society

Public Archives & Research Library

2205 Old Penitentiary Rd.

Boise, Idaho

Institut de Recherches Les Sources Du Passe Enr.

Jean Price, Bp 1293

Trois-Rivieres, Quebec

Lifeways of Canada Ltd.

Susan De Caen

2818 6th Street SW

Calgary, Alberta

Manitoba Genealogical Society

420 - 167 Lombard Avenue

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Manitoba Vital Statistics

254 Portage Avenue

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Missionary Oblates, Grantdin Office

c/o Provincial Archives of Alberta

21 Meadowview Dr.

St. Albert, AB  T8N-2R9

Montana State Historical Society

P.O. Box 201201

225 North Roberts

Helena, Montana

Montana Board of Medical Examiners

Box 200513

Helena, Montana

Musee des Ursulines

434, Rue des Ursulines

Trois-Rivieres, Quebec

National Archives of Canada

Library and Archives Canada

395 /wekkubgtib /street

Ottawa, Ontario

National Archives of Trois-Rivieres

225 des Forges Bureau 208

Trois-Rivieres, Quebec

Northwest and Whitman College Archives

Penrose Memorial Library

Whittman College

Walla Walla, Washington

PEI Department of Education

P.O. Box 1000 Charlottetown

PEI  C1A-7M4

Prince Edward Island Vital Statistics

126 Douces Road

Montigue, P.E.I.

Provincial Archives of Manitoba

130 - 200 Vaughan Street

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Provincial Convent of the Good Shepherd

7654 Natural Bridge Road

St. Louis, Missouri 63121-4989

Rural Municipality of Dufferin

P.O. Box 100

Carman, Manitoba

Saskatchewan Vital Statistics, Department of Health

1942 Hamilton Streen

Regina, Saskatchewan

Seven Oaks House Museum

Rupertsland Avenue

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Shenandoah Antique Restoration

1208 Military Avenue

Council Bluffs, IA

Society of the Sacred Heart, National Archive, U.S.A.

801 S. Spoede Rd.

St. Louise, Missouri 63131-2699

Soda Springs Cemetery attn: Jeff Anderson

810 East 4th North

Soda Springs, Idaho

St. Boniface Cemetery

190, rue de la cathedrale

St. Boniface, Manitoba

St. Boniface Historical Society

340 Provencher Blvd.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

St. Dunstan's University

Charlottetown, PEI

St. Mary's Cathedral

353 St. Mary Avenue

Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Hon. Mr. Oliver St. Clair Franklin

Hon. British Consul

1818 Market Street, 33rd Floor

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

This Old Trunk

Marvin D. Miller

312 Culpepper court

Brentwood, TN

United States Government

[Fort Hall Indian Agency - Probates]

Fort Hall, Idaho

Urseline Convent

353 S. Sappington Road

St. Louis, Missouri 63122-6331

Washington State Historical Society

1911 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma State Historical Society

Tacoma, Washington

Winnipeg City Police

151 Princess

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Newspapers

Idaho State Journal, 1976, 1991

Idaho State Journa, Pocatello-Chubbuck, 1991

Independent Observer,  1991

La Gazette des Trois rivieres, 1847

Le Canadian, 1836

New Northwest, Deer Lodge, Montana, 1880, 1883, 1896

The Daily Missoulian, 1910

The Flathead Courier, 1914, 1940

The Idaho Democrat, 1896

The Montreal Gazette, 1787, 1789

The Oregonian, December ?

Tribue International Wire, Fort Hall, Idaho, November 26, 1941

"Rites Planned at Fort Hall Today for Indian Leader" [Edward LaVatta]

Washington Statesman, 1862

Online Sources

Campion, Etienne-Charles   http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35915&query=

Fafard, Leon-Adelard    http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39630&query=fafard

Gerrard, Samuel    http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38053&query=GERRARD

 Grant, Cuthbert Sr.     http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36041&query=Grant

Grant, William of Trois-Rivieres   http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36551&query=Grant

Grant, Sir William   http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=37018&query=Grant

McTavish, Simon    http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36673&query=MCTAVISH

Selby, Dr. George  http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3124&&PHPSESSID=ychzfqkvzape

Geneaolgy’s Most Wanted   

Publications  (In alphabetical order by title)

Carl Waldman, Atlas of the North American Indian, Checkmark Books, New York, 2000

Joanna Cohan Scherer, Editor & Anne Merkley, Editorial Assistant, Benedicte Wrensted: An Idaho Photographer in Focus, Idaho State University Press, Pocatello, 1993

Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Blackfeet Heritage 1907-1908, Browning, 1980

Note: This is a compilation of the genealogical histories of those original individuals and families first moved to this
Blackfeet Reservation.

Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest, Vancouver, Volumes I and II and Stellamaris Mission, French Prairie Press, St. Paul, 1992.

Phillip R. Coutu, BA., MED, C. Phych., Castles to Forts -A True History of Edmonton, Thunderwoman Ethnographics, Edmonton, 2004

Peter C. Newman, Caesars of the Wilderness, Viking - Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Markham, 1987

Conrad Kohrs Warren, Conrad Kohrs: an autobiography, Platen Press; Deer Lodge, 1977

Peter C. Newman, Company of Adventurers Volume I, Viking - Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Markam, 1985

Peter C. Newman, Company of Adventurers - How th Hudson's Bay Empire Determined t he Destiny of a Continent, Penguin Group; Toronto, 2005

Margaret MacLeod and W.L. Morton, Cuthbert Grant of Grantown, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1974

Carolyn Niethhammer, Daughters of the Earth - The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women, MacMillan Publishing Company; New York, 1977

Dictionary of Canadian Biographies, University of Toronto Press, Toronto

     Armstrong, Frederick H.     Allcock, Henry

     Roberts, David                   Allsop, George

     Farrell, David R.                 Askin (Erskine), John

                                                  Baby, Francois

                                                  Breland, Pascal

     Pierre Dufour                     Boucher de Niverville, Joseph-Clause

     Nive Voisine                      Boucher de Niverville, Louis-Charles

Bunn, Thomas

Cameron, Aeneas

Cadotte

Campion, Etienne-Charles

Charly St. Ange, Louis

Clarke(e) James

Cotte (Cote), Gabriel

Craigie, John

Cresse, Pierre-Michel

DeBonne, Pierre-Amable

Dobie, Richard

Lacombe, Albert

Le Moyne de Longueuil, Joseph-Dominque-Emmanuel

Longueil

Loranger, Louis-Onesime

MacDonald, Helen (Nelly)

McTavish, Simon

Riel, Louis

Rowand, John

Selby, Dr. George

Simpson, George

Umfreville, Edward

James W. Nesmith, Emigration of 1843, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Volume 7, pages 348-359

Newman, Peter C., Empire of the Bay - An illustrated history of the Hudson's Bay Company, Penguin Group - Viking Studio/Madison Press Book, Markham, 1989

Hirschfelder, Arlene & Molin, Paulette, Encyclopedia of Naative American Religions, Checkmark Books, New York, 2000

Edward Eberstadt, Excerpts from the Journals and Letters of Major John, Dunbar & Phillips, New York, 1927

James G. MacGregor, Father LaCombe, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, 1975

Patricia Kutch Beatty, Feathers in the Wind - A Family History About The Descemdants of Thomas LaVatta and Tilford Kutch

Hugh A. Dempsey, Firewater -  Thie Impact of the Whisky Trade on the Blackfoot Nation, Fifth House Ltd., Calgary, 2002

Theodore Bennena, Gerhard Ens, and R.C. MacLeod, editors, From Rupert's Land to Canada, University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 2001

Merry Battlers Ladies Club, From Sage to Timber, Maple Creel, 1989

 Fitzroy Maclean, Highlanders - Highland Jacobites 1745, published for Clearfield Company Ltd. by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, 1999

Written in part by Mr. Maillet and dictated in part to Colonel W.F. Wheeler, Historical Sketch of Louis R. Maillet, Historical Society of Montana, Volume 4, pages 197-228

Granville Stuart, Esq.,  A Historical Sketch of Deer Lodge County, Valley and City, Volume 2, pages 119-125

Gerhard J. Ens, Homeland to Hinterland - The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, 1996

D'Arcy Jenish, Indian Fall - The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy, Penguin Books Canada, Toront, 2000

Angus Baxter, In Search of Your Canadian Roots - Tracing your family tree in Canada, Macmillan of Canada, A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation, Toronto, 1989

 Grace Helming, John W. Powell ca 1836-1879 - an Historical Biography of a Notable Western Montana Mountain Man, The Montana Ghost Town Preservation Societty, 1993

La collection Tanguay, Genealogical dictionary of Canadian families (7 volumes), Global Heritage Press with permission of the French-Canadian Genealogical Society, 2001

Edward J. McCullough,  and Maccagno, Michael, Lac L Biche and the Early Fur Traders, Joint publication of Canadian Circumpolar Institute, Alberta Vocational College-Lac La Biche, Archeological Society, Edmonton, 1991

Alvin M. Josephy, editor, Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006

Hope Mommer,  Look Out West "Here Comes Robert Dempsey" 1848-1908, Adams Press, Chicago, 1994

Ralph K. Andrist, introduction by Dee Brown, Long Death - The Last Days of the Plains Indians, MacMillan Publishing Company, New York, 1993

Manitoba Municipalities Directory-1882 Henderson Directory, Manitoba

Sylvia Van Kirk, Many Tender Ties - Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870, Watson & Dwyer Publishing Ltd., Winnipeg, 1991

Thomas Flanigan, Metis Lands in Canada (excerpt: page 170)

Board of (various) Editors & Managing Editor Clarence W. Alvord, The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Mississipi Valley Historical Association, Volume 3, 1917

The Blackfoot Gallery Committee, Nitsitapiisinni -  The Story of the Blackfoot People, Key Porter Books Limited, Toronto, 2001

Old Parochial Rigister, Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scottland, Latter Day Saints

Our First Hundred Years - History of St. Francois-Xavier Municipality, The Municipality of St. Francois-Xavier, 1980

Various, Persimmon Hill, Volume 14, Number 4, The Cowboy National Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, Oklahoma City, 1985

Mark N. Trahant, Picture Our Nobler Selves - A history of Native American contributions to news media, The Freedom Forum First Amendment Centre, Nashville, 1995

Granville Stuart, edited by Paul C. Phillips, Pioneering in Montana - The making of a State 1864-1887, University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London, 1977.  Originally published under the title Forty Years on the Frontier as seen in the Journals and Reminiscences of Granville Stuart, Gold-Miner, Trader, Merchant, Rancher and Politician, Volume II

Powell County Museum and Arts Foundation Historic Action Committee, Dorene Couchene, Editor, Powell County: Where it all Began, Deer Lodge, 1989

Progressive Men of the State of Montan - Christopher P. Higgins, A.W. Bowen & Co., North Dakota, Chicago

Merle Wells, The Mountain Men - Finnan MacDonald, Idaho State Historical Society, Volume 5, page 207-216

James W. Nesmith, Emigration of 1843, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Volume 7, pages 348-359

Newman, Peter C., Empire of the Bay –An illustrated history of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Penguin Group -Viking Studio/Madison Press Book, Markham, 1989

Originally published under the title Forty Years on the Frontier as seen in the Journals and Reminiscences of Granville Stuart, Gold-Miner, Trader, Merchant, Rancher and Politician, Volume 1

T.C. Elliott, Richard ("Captain Johnny") Grant, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Number 1, March, 1935