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Supporting Resources 

If you have any primary sourced material related to the Victoria Voltigeurs please reach out!

Contact: victoriavoltigeursinstitute@gmail.com

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  1. Metis Infantry: The Victoria Voltigeurs (Infantrymen) - Louis Riel Institute

  2. The Metis in British Columbia - From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony

  3. Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) - The Canadian Encyclopedia

  4. Eastern Métis - Chronicling and Reclaiming a Denied Past

  5. Bois-Brûlés - The Untold Story of the Métis of Western Québec

  6. Songs Upon the Rivers - The Buried History French-Speaking Canadiens and Metis from the Great-Lakes and the Mississippi across the to the Pacific 

  7. Songhees Pictorial: A History of the Songhees People as seen by Outsiders, 1790-1912

  8. Supplement Document/Royal BC Musuem- Songhees Pictorial: A History of the Songhees People as seen by Outsiders, 1790-1912

  9. Eastern Metis - Chronicling and Reclaiming a Denied Past 

  10. French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest

  11. Metis Heritage in the Victoria Region

  12. The Fort Victoria Brick Project Commemorates Black Pioneers

  13. B.C.’s Black Pioneers: Influencing the Vision of Canada

  14. Racially "Indian", Legally "White":The Canadian State's Struggles to Categorize the Métis,1850-1900

  15. Wearing the Mantle on Both Shoulders”: An Examination of the Development of Cultural Change, Mutual Accommodation, and Hybrid Forms at Fort Simpson/Laxłgu‟alaams, 1834-1862

  16. Heritage Inventory - The City of Colwood

  17. Black History Month - Afro News February 3, 2021 ​

  18. The British Columbia that might of been

  19. The Struggle of the fur companies in the Red River Region 1811-1821 / file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/McMillan_The_struggle.pdf

  20. The first newspapers on Canada's west coast: 1858-1863

  21. Haudenosaunee Confederacy

  22. Nisg̱a’a Nation

  23. Songhees Nation

  24. Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

  25. Smallpox in Canada

  26. The Edge of the World: BC's Early Years | Knowledge Network

  27. When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of 'Civilization'

  28. Mrs. R Mayard Photography - UVIC

  29. Fort Victoria Post Journal 1846-1850 - http://www.fortvictoriajournal.ca/journal.html

  30. Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 1: The rise of the Métis

  31. Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 2: The rise of the Métis

  32. Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 3: The rise of the Métis

  33. Fur Trade

  34. Fort Victoria Letters 1846-1851

  35. 1843 - Fort Victoria is Established

  36. “Métis and Canadians and how their identities emerged within the matrix of the fur trade - https://www.historylink.org/File/5171

  37. Smallpox Epidemic of 1862 among Northwest Coast and Puget Sound Indians

  38. Smallpox in British Columbia: The Fraser–Harrison Shock of 1782–83 and the Long Aftermath

  39. Measles, 1847-1850: the First Modern Epidemic in British Columbia  file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/ebarsky,+1307-5414-1-CE.pdf

  40. Fort Victoria Journal - Measles and Malingerers: Illness, Disease, and other Afflictions in the Fort Victoria Journal 1846 – 1850

  41. The Pacific Northwest Measles Epidemic of 1847-1848

  42. Tales from the Vault: Victoria served by all-black militia

  43. The Kennedy Interlude, 1864-66  file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/ebarsky,+1071-4472-1-CE.pdf

  44. Kumtuks - https://kumtuks.ca/bc-deadly-smallpox-epidemic/

  45. New France

  46. Challenging Racist "British Columbia" 150 Years and Counting  

  47. Métis in BC - Map & Story

  48. Jay Powell interviewed by Sam Sullivan in Chinook Wawa

  49. BC Chinook Jargon: Can You Speak British Columbian?

  50. Some of the images posted on this site were gathered by Lotus Johnson/Blaire Stevens and posted in "Victoria...Then" (Facebook)

  51. Marie-Louise: Oral Traditions and the Resilience of Métis in Québec

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