The witness of a century Victoria Belcourt was born on 19 November 1861, in the Métis community of Lac Ste Anne, which was located northwest of Edmonton, part of Rupert's Land, was owned and controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company. The area would not become part of Canada ...

The Pikunis Indians faced much adversity in the mid to late 1800s. The increasing amount of white contact with these native people drastically changed the way that they lived. It led to many terrible things, such as disease, loss of land, and loss of food sources. It also brought about more trade af...