Hello! Thank you for sharing your story. I am also a descendant of Dr. John Dease and Jane French. I am Métis from the Red River Settlement, a descendant of two of John Dease and Jane French's children, John Warren Dease and Charles Johnson Watts Dease. Charles Sauvé, my 2nd great grandfather, along with his mother Marie Suzanne Sauvé (née Dease - daughter of Charles Johnson Watts Dease and Louise, a First Nations woman) and his siblings lived and grew up alongside the Riel family in St. Vital. He married Julie Larivière, cousin to Louis Riel. Charles Sauvé, along with Louis Lavallée, Riel's brother-in-law, were appointed by the Métis National Committee to retrieve Riel's body in Regina and keep vigil over the body while on the train and back in St. Boniface. I'm also a descendant of Pierre Gladu and Nancy Dease mentioned above. Their daughter, Marie Gladu, my 2nd great grandmother, married André Carrière, 2nd great grandfather. Their son Albert Carrière married Elizabeth Sauvé (my great grandparents), daughter of Charles Sauvé and Julie Larivière mentioned above...and the mind keeps spinning : )
Hello! Thank you for sharing your story. I am also a descendant of Dr. John Dease and Jane French. I am Métis from the Red River Settlement, a descendant of two of John Dease and Jane French's children, John Warren Dease and Charles Johnson Watts Dease. Charles Sauvé, my 2nd great grandfather, along with his mother Marie Suzanne Sauvé (née Dease - daughter of Charles Johnson Watts Dease and Louise, a First Nations woman) and his siblings lived and grew up alongside the Riel family in St. Vital. He married Julie Larivière, cousin to Louis Riel. Charles Sauvé, along with Louis Lavallée, Riel's brother-in-law, were appointed by the Métis National Committee to retrieve Riel's body in Regina and keep vigil over the body while on the train and back in St. Boniface. I'm also a descendant of Pierre Gladu and Nancy Dease mentioned above. Their daughter, Marie Gladu, my 2nd great grandmother, married André Carrière, 2nd great grandfather. Their son Albert Carrière married Elizabeth Sauvé (my great grandparents), daughter of Charles Sauvé and Julie Larivière mentioned above...and the mind keeps spinning : )
Amazing that you have these details. Freeing the mind from spinning I get too
I am stunned (but not surprised) by the depth of your research in your family history exploits. The detail in this post alone makes my head spin!