In 2017, the Government of Ontario and the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) formally recognized
six new Métis communities in the province.
The stated effect of this legal and political recognition was to assert that these communities represented section 35 Aboriginal rights-holders.
The report linked below examines MNO documentation and research about the existence of a Métis community in the upper James Bay watershed and Temiskaming regions in Ontario. The report addresses the following research question:
According to relevant government research reports and the MNO’s own documentation, did a historical Métis community with a distinctive collective identity exist in the upper James Bay / Abitibi-Temiskaming regions before effective Crown control?