I have actually connected with Chalk on FB. A lot of the records I got from the Glenbow Archives were authored by him. Turns out I helped him a lot as Josette disappeared from their research in 1824 and they didn't know what happened to her. He thinks there is something wrong with the MNO. They should understand that for the period and area that the puzzle pieces don't always slide perfectly into place and sometimes you have to pound them in.
Her baptism that she had as an adult has her born in the time and place Jacko was stationed. Her children's baptisms have them born where he was stationed at that time. Her husband (their father) has him stationed at the fort Jacko famously built. This should be enough, as it's not as if there were a lot of people in the area at that time. I know it's circumstantial but a jesuit missionary travelled the west and drew a Finlay family tree around 1856. From the Finlay's he met, he recorded their sister Josette marrying a Pion and moving to Canada which at the time was Quebec. The MNO said the tree wasn't an acceptable form of proof.
I truly believe there are a few factors at play.
1. The strongly base their admition on Scrip records
2. They're busy with the flood of applicants since the government may soon accept the Metis as an official member of the First Nations of Canada and thus entitled to any funding other groups receive.
3. I think the genealogist working on my account may be new
4. There may be some prejudice against Metis from Quebec because for the most part in Quebec, the Metis hid the ancestry to avoid prosecution.
With the DNA testing the problem with Metis is that the DNA may show Ojibwa and European but it doesn't prove that my ancestors lived as Metis. They could tell me to go apply to be an Ojibwa. That's if they accepted DNA testing.
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