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  Location: Southampton, Ontario Origins: Status: Active Registration: Cost: History: Quite active. Held its tenth annual “Rendezvous” in August 2018. On September 20, 2018, the Saugeen Ojibway Nation released a statement opposing their political claims. # of Members: Connections: Contact: http://saugeenmetis.com Supporting Docs Lindsay, Sandy. “Historic Saugeen Métis Celebrating 200 Years.” Saugeen Times. August 7, 2018. “SON affirms exclusive aboriginal and treaty rights over territory.” Saugeen Shores Hub. September 20, 2018. Court Cases

  Location: Sunridge, Ontario Origins: 2004 Status: Active Registration: They now accept people with any Indigenous ancestry at any time. Cost: $225 application fee History: Started as an organization representing non-status and Métis people. The Powleys were members in 1990s. Submitted comprehensive claim to federal government in 2009 and 2015 # of Members: Connections: Contact: http://www.omaa.org/ Supporting Docs Wabiska Mukwa (Zane Plouffe Bell), Letter to Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs, “COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING AND RETENTION OF TALENT- FEBRUARY…

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  Location: Casselman, ON Origins: 2017 Status: Active Registration: Cost: History: # of Members: 60 initial members. Connections: Associated with CPAQ Contact: Supporting Docs Charboneau, Vicky, “La communauté Widjikiene est sur le point de voir le jour,” Le Reflet, April 26, 2017. Court Cases

  Location: Sundridge, Ontario Origins: Status: Active Registration: No longer clear. Cost: $225 (according to Sarac v. Wilstar Management Ltd.) History: Incorporated in 2004 (“30,000 years and growing”) Signatory to the “Native Nations Intergovernmental Alliance Treaty” # of Members: Connections: Connected to the Kinakwii Nation Founding member of Alliance of Indigenous Nations Contact: https://www.anishinabeksolutreanmetis.com/contact  Supporting Docs David Grey Eagle, Special Envoy for Grand Chief Wabiska Mukwa, showed up at a City of Pickering council meeting falsely claiming to represent the…

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  Location: Located in Barrie area. Origins: Status: Active Registration: Anybody with an ancestor, though focused on French settler-descendants. Cost: $25 “donation” for a card. History: Seems to be mostly online, claims to represent Great Lakes region.  Quite active, received intervenor status in an Ontario Municipal Board hearing near Barrie, ON in 2016. “Montagnais” means Innu. # of Members: Connections: Contact: http://www.montagnaismetis.ca Supporting Docs Court Cases

  Location: Bancroft, ON Origins: Status: Active Registration: Documented proof of an ancestor suffices. Cost: From $57 (5 years) to $320 (lifetime) membership fees, for individuals 12 years and older. History: Also known as Ontario Métis Family Records Centre  # of Members: 10,000 in 2016 Connections: Contact: http://www.omfrc.org/painted-feather-woodland-metis/ Supporting Docs Vance, Sarah. “Metis Rights: The Road Ahead.” Bancroft This Week. May 27, 2016. Court Cases

  Location: Vankleek Hill, ON, but represents the Windsor-Detroit corridor. Origins:   Status: Active Registration: Anybody with a verified ancestor. “Voyageur Metis is a community registry of ‘Muskrats’, a well-documented term that has been used for generations to describe our people based on our culture – which arose along the waterways and fur trade routes of what was once New France, centrally from the historic Detroit fur trade post and in various surrounding ‘French Canadian’ communities along the waterways of…

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