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The Department of History presents:
Privilege, Kin, and the Settler Colonial State: British-Metis Children and Families in Nineteenth-Century Western Canada
Dr. Erin Millions (University of Winnipeg)
2 p.m., Monday, October 7, 2019
E690
Abstract: Elite British-Métis families formed the core of the nineteenth-century western Canadian social elite, first under the rule of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) after 1821 and then as part of an emerging settler colonial state after 1870. These families reproduced and reified their social, class, and economic privilege through education, kin ties, and close connections with first the HBC officer class and then the Canadian civil service. An examination of a core group of nine British-Métis families provides insight into how they drew on both British middle-class norms and their multicultural heritage to maintain their privileged positions in Canada and Britain. In doing so, Dr. Millions’ research highlights the families’ transnational travels, their extensive trans-Atlantic kin networks, and the strength of maternal Métis kin ties, skills, and knowledge transfer.
Everyone is welcome.
Contact:
Bev Garnett | bev.garnett@uleth.ca | 403-380-1894
