Notable Chicot Métis

“Je suis Chicot” said a halfbreed Voyageur with “some” Indigenous blood in his veins. His grandfather was Voyageur, as was his father.

I previously examined the place-name origins of the term “Chicot” in The Many Names of the Métis: here’s more about Chicot.

Here, I’m sharing evidence in empirical form, of Métis whose grandfathers and fathers came from were the Chicot flows:

Chicot Grandmothers and Grandfathers:

Jean-Baptiste LAGIMODIÈRE et Marie-Anne GABOURY

Marie-Anne Gaboury

Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière

source: church records – Maskinonge parish, 1806

Jean-Baptiste RIEL dit l’IRLANDE et Marguerite BOUCHER

Source: Collection Tanguay

Joseph FAFARD dit DELORME et Charlotte BRISSET

Jean-Baptiste BEAUGRAND dit CHAMPAGNE et Marie Amable MARION

François DUBOIS et Angélique LARIVIÈRE

Chicot Mothers and Fathers:

Louis RIEL, sr.

Son and daughter of Jean-Baptiste and Marguerite Boucher, christened in Berthierville at the age of 5, along with his sister Sophie, 14 months and his 4 year-old aunt, Angèle Boucher. Noteworthy:  the priest indicated both Boucher and Riel “de cette paroisse” – of this parish. He also indicated Angèle’s mother as a “savage mother” – even though Josephe dite Leblanc and Louis Boucher had married at the same church in 1811.

Joseph FAFARD dit DELORME et Josephte (Josette) BELISLE

Emmanuel BEAUGRAND dit CHAMPAGNE, sr. and Marguerite LAROQUE

church record – Berthierville Quebec Parish, 1799

Scrip record application by Beaugrand-Champagne children naming Emmanuel their father

François DUBOIS et Madeleine LABERGE

From the Chicot river to the Red river children:

Louis RIEL and the ministers of his provisional government. Pierre DELORME, top row second from left.

Emmanuel BEAUGRAND-CHAMPAGNE and Maxime DUBOIS

Prisoners of the Rebellion

“Taken beside the Regina Court House at the time of their trial. 1. Johnny Sansregret 2. P. Paranteau 3. Pierre Gardiepui 4. Philip Garnot (Riel’s secretary) 5. Albert Monkman 6. Pierre Vandall 7. Babtiste Vandall 8. Touissaint Lucier (reputed to be the strongest man in North West) 9. Maxime Dubois 10. Timmus Short 11. Jean-Baptiste Tourond 12. Emmanuel Champagne.”

Ties between Métis communities run deep. We are vowen like the sash that represents our culture.

Tissés serré comme la Fléchée

Grateful to my own Great-grandmother, Marie-Anne Dubois for retelling this family story. Riel, Delorme, Beaugrand-Champagne were all her cousins.

Further reading:

Girouard, Richard A.J. (2001). Les familles Beaugrand dit Champagne (1665-2001) Volume 1 s.e.: s.e.