{"id":18784,"date":"2018-05-16T23:52:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T03:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=18784"},"modified":"2018-05-16T23:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T03:52:48","slug":"marie-sophie-henault-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/marie-sophie-henault-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Who were Marie Sophie Henault-Canada’s parents?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who were Marie Sophie Henault-Canada’s parents?<\/p>\n

My struggle answering this question typifies the trouble I’ve had researching all of my First Nation ancestors. See my stories about St. Anne<\/a> and Louis <\/a>Riel .<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear that my four-times great grandmother Marie Sophie (or S\u00e9raphie) Henault-Canada was born in the Red River Settlement on April 6, 1818, to parents Marie and Charles Henault-Canada. But who was her father and where did he come from? And who was her mother?<\/p>\n

According to notes left to me by my grandmother, Sophie was born to Marie Gris, who was born in an unidentified location on October 30, 1802, and Charles Henault-Canada, who was born in 1793 in Berthier, Quebec. I haven\u2019t been able to find records of his birth in Quebec, so I\u2019m not sure whether that information is accurate.<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u2019s hard to confirm any of the information because the documents I\u2019ve found so far seem to conflict and some information can\u2019t be confirmed.<\/p>\n

The 1870 Manitoba Census shows a Manitoba-based location in which Sophie was born that looks a bit like \u201cterritorial something,\u201d that could refer to the Red River Settlement. In that document, Marie is listed as \u201cMarie Henault\u201d and she appears next to her husband, Charles Henault. Marie, Charles and Sophie are all described as French-speaking Catholic M\u00e9tis.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

Marie and Charles both have 1810 listed as their birthdates in the 1870 Manitoba Census, a rather extraordinary coincidence I think.\u00a0 Marie H\u00e9nault is listed in the 1870 Manitoba Census as 60 years old, however, so the birthdate for her might be correct. If it is, a different Marie may have been Sophie\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

A Hudson Bay Company Census conducted the same year[2]<\/a> doesn\u2019t list a Marie Henault, but it does show Marie Gris living on a farm on lot 8 in Pointe-des-Ch\u00eanes with her daughter, granddaughter and another woman and her child. A second house on the same lot is home to Sophie\u2019s aunt Catherine and her husband Francois Ducharme.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

Her older daughter Sophie was married to Dominique Ducharme-Charron by then. The couple was living on lot 27 with four of their children Johnny 19, Roger 17, Joseph 13 and Marie, 12.[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

The Hudson Bay Census also lists Sophie\u2019s father, Charles Henault\/ Heneault\/ Haineault\/ Henault dit Canada\/ Enaud dit Canada\/ Enaud\/ Enault \u201cM\u00e9tis, born 1810; farmer in his life time\u201d as dead, although the document doesn\u2019t say when exactly he died. My grandmother doesn\u2019t show a date for that either. Perhaps he died that very year, 1870?<\/p>\n

The date 1810 next to Charles\u2019 name might refer to the date he arrived in the Red River Settlement rather than his birthdate. He may have come from elsewhere to Manitoba to work for the North West Company Fort Gibraltar trading post, which was set up in 1809. \u00a0Or maybe it\u2019s correct because my grandmother also shows his father, Pierre \u00c9nault-Canada as born in Berthier on August 9, 1730, which would be possible if his son were born in 1810. She shows his father as another Pierre \u00c9nault-Canada and his mother as Marguerite Piette-Tremp, whose parents and grandparents are all identified, though with no dates.<\/p>\n

Hall\u2019s appendix gives me access to two other potential ancestors beyond my grandmother\u2019s notes. Her father was a Cree man named Thomas Gris and her mother was Marie Nepissing. Then again, if this Marie is not Sophie\u2019s mother, they are not my ancestors.<\/p>\n

Guess I have a bit of work to do.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Canada, L. A. (2016, June 23). 1870 Census of Manitoba. Retrieved January 23, 2018, from http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/1870\/pdf\/e010985547.pdf.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Hudson\u2019s Bay Company Archives, E.6\/1-16. Land records of the Red River Settlement sent to the Governor and Committee, 1811\u20131871.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> The 1870 Manitoba Census identifies Catherine and Francois living in St. Anne as M\u00e9tis, French-speaking and Catholic. It also shows Catherine\u2019s father as Charles Henault, lines 126, 127, p231,5. The information was collected on October 27, 1870, and residence was established as of July 16, 1870.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a>http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/1870\/pdf\/e010985551.pdf<\/p>\n

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Who were Marie Sophie Henault-Canada’s parents? My struggle answering this question typifies the trouble I’ve had researching all of my First Nation ancestors. See my stories about St. Anne and Louis Riel . It\u2019s clear that my four-times great grandmother Marie Sophie (or S\u00e9raphie) Henault-Canada was born in the Red River Settlement on April 6, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[100],"tags":[990,992,995,991,989,993,988,987,994],"class_list":["post-18784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-ensemble-history-worth-remembering","tag-charles-henault-canada","tag-dominique-ducharme-charron","tag-marguerite-piette-tremp","tag-marie-gris","tag-marie-henault-canada","tag-marie-nepissing","tag-marie-seraphie-henault-canada","tag-marie-sophie-henault-canada","tag-thomas-gris","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-4SY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18668,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/ste-annes-first-nation-heritage\/","url_meta":{"origin":18784,"position":0},"title":"Ste. 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