Indigenous persons, peoples, and nations are making efforts to reclaim their histories after generations of being erased from Canadian historical writings which often under/misrepresented Indigenous personal, familial, and national histories from the records—especially from military records and histories. Indigenous-led efforts to reclaim and write these histories is an important part of reconciliation.
In 2024, with financial support from The Métis Veterans Legacy Program, the HKVCA undertook a project to recognize Hong Kong Veterans with Indigenous ancestry and to research their lives in an effort to honour their histories and promote awareness of Indigenous participation in ‘C’ Force. A corresponding part of this project was to create a Teachers Resource Guide about the Battle of Hong Kong and Indigenous participation in Canada’s military. Research on the members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, the Royal Rifles of Canada, and Headquarters, showed that the veterans listed below have documented Indigenous ancestry.
This Project’s main goals were to identify and honour the Indigenous veterans of ‘C’ Force and to develop educational materials. It resulted in so much more - aiding families in restoring historical kinship and community ties, in building new connections, and increased awareness of the participation and contributions of Indigenous soldiers in Canada’s military, among other things. We invite you to explore the results of our research. Click on the veteran’s regimental number and follow the instructions in their Individual Report to access research conducted through this Project. The Teachers Resource Guide is available for use, free of charge, at the link noted at the bottom of this page.
(Please note the research is not meant to be prescriptive or determining of a Veteran’s identity, membership, and/or citizenship to a specific Indigenous Nation.)
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Regimental # | Rank | First Name | Last Name | Métis/First Nation (if known) | Band (if known) |
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H41746 | Private | Angus | AIMOE | Red River Métis | |
H41728 | Private | Joseph | ATEAH | Red River Métis | |
L13725 | Private | George | BADGER | Saulteaux | Cote First Nation, SK |
L2957 | Private | Edgar | BAPTISTE | Cree | Red Pheasant First Nation, SK |
H20873 | Private | Oliver | BARRON | Red River Métis | |
H6618 | Private | George | BELCOURT | Red River Métis | |
H17500 | Private | Victor | BELCOURT | Red River Métis | |
H77586 | Private | Robert | BLANCHARD | Red River Métis/Anishinaabe | family ties to Sagkeeng First Nation, MB |
H41902 | Private | William | BOULETTE | Red River Métis | family ties to Hollow Water First Nation, MB |
H41568 | Private | Albert | BOYER | Red River Métis | |
L13726 | Private | Raymond | BRASS | Anishinaabe | Key First Nation, SK |
H75144 | Private | Lucien | BRAZEAU | Red River Métis | |
H6066 | Corporal | John | BRITTON | Red River Métis | |
H17296 | Private | Joseph | CAMPBELL | Red River Métis/Cree | |
H37793 | Private | John | CAMPBELL | Red River Métis | |
H41897 | Private | Patrick | CAMPBELL | Red River Métis/First Nations | |
H6199 | Lance Corporal | Clifford | CARPENTER | Red River Métis | |
H41683 | Private | Wilfrid | CHABOYER | Red River Métis | |
H41688 | Private | David | CHABOYER | Red River Métis | |
H63696 | Private | Marcel | CHABOYER | Red River Métis | |
H41862 | Private | Alexander | CONTOIS | Red River Métis/First Nations | family ties to Long Plain First Nation |
H6758 | Private | George | DELORME | Red River Métis | |
H6870 | Private | Joseph | DELORME | Red River Métis | |
H6750 | Private | Leon | DESLAURIER | Red River Métis | |
H6892 | Private | Harry | DRURY | Red River Métis | |
H20841 | Private | Wilbert | DUBOIS | Red River Métis | |
H6035 | Private | Joseph | FALCON | Red River Métis | |
H20803 | Private | Alexander | FAVEL | Cree | Peguis First Nation, MB |
H6205 | Private | James | FIDLER | Red River Métis | |
H6808 | Private | Raymond | FIDLER | Red River Métis | |
H6911 | Private | Herbert | FOLSTER | Red River Métis | |
H70208 | Private | Donald | FOLSTER | Red River Métis | |
H6423 | Private | Albert | FONTAINE | Red River Métis | |
H6075 | Private | Edward | FREEMAN | Red River Métis | |
H6787 | Private | Donald | FROBISHER | Red River Métis | |
H41793 | Private | William | GLADUE | Red River Métis | |
H6895 | Private | Lawrence | HALLETT | Red River Métis | |
H41694 | Private | Francois | HAMELIN | Red River Métis | |
H41892 | Private | Alfred | HAMELIN | Red River Métis | |
H17667 | Private | Frank | HARDING | Red River Métis | |
H6825 | Private | William | HARDISTY | Red River Métis | |
H6219 | Private | William | HARKNESS | Red River Métis | |
H41117 | Private | Frederick | HARRIS | First Nations | family ties to Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation |
H6204 | Private | Malcolm | HAWES | Red River Métis | |
H6940 | Private | Stewart | HOLMSTROM | Red River Métis | |
B38350 | Rifleman | Donald | INNES | Cree | Constance Lake First Nation, ON |
H6542 | Private | William | JEFFERY | Red River Métis | |
H6641 | Corporal | Douglas | JEFFERY | Red River Métis | |
H20808 | Private | George | KIPLING | family ties to Peguis First Nation, MB | |
H6503 | Private | Marcien | LAFORTUNE | Red River Métis | |
H6109 | Private | George | LAMOUREUX | Red River Métis | |
H6289 | Private | Gordon | LAND | Red River Métis | |
H6295 | Lance Corporal | Roy | LAND | Red River Métis | |
H41654 | Private | Gabriel | LAPLANTE | Red River Métis | |
H75223 | Private | Romain | LAPLANTE | Red River Métis | |
H6677 | Private | Maurice | LAPOINTE | Red River Métis | |
H6506 | Private | Joseph | LARIVIERE | Red River Métis | |
H6744 | Private | Frederick | LAVALLEE | Red River Métis | |
H41865 | Private | Ernest | LAVALLEE | Red River Métis | |
H41704 | Private | Lawrence | LEWIS | Red River Métis | |
H6741 | Private | Clifford | LINKLATER | Red River Métis | |
H77269 | Private | Wilbert | LYNCH | Red River Métis | |
L28212 | Private | Fred | MALBEUF | Red River Métis | |
L28224 | Private | Ernest | MALBEUF | Red River Métis | |
H41861 | Private | Charles | MARQUIS | Red River Métis | |
E30167 | Rifleman | Paul (Polycarpe) | MARTIN | Mi’gmaq | Listuguj, QC |
E30760 | Rifleman | Henry | MARTIN | Mi’gmaq | Listuguj, QC |
H6745 | Private | Ralph | MAXWELL | Red River Métis | |
H6245 | Corporal | Arthur | MCCORRISTER | Red River Métis | |
H26245 | Private | Calvin | MCCORRISTER | Red River Métis | |
H26247 | Private | Mervin | MCCORRISTER | Red River Métis | |
H6938 | Private | Robert | MCGOWAN | Red River Métis | |
H6885 | Private | Alfred | MCIVOR | Red River Métis | |
H41738 | Private | Walter | MCLEOD | Red River Métis | |
E30097 | Rifleman | Patrick | METALLIC | Mi'gmaq | Listuguj, QC |
E29862 | Rifleman | Francois | METHOT | Mi’gmaq | Listuguj, QC |
H41564 | Private | Henry | MILLITAIRE | Red River Métis | |
H41860 | Private | James | MOAR | Red River Métis | |
H6181 | Lance Corporal | George | MONTROY | Red River Métis | |
H6621 | Private | Bertrand | MOORE | Cree | family ties to Moose Cree First Nation, ON |
H20809 | Private | Edward | MORRISSEAU | Anishinaabe | Sagkeeng First Nation |
H41731 | Private | Alexander | MORRISSETTE | Red River Métis | |
H41648 | Private | John | MOSIONIER | Red River Métis | |
H6664 | Lance Corporal | Philip | MOYSEY | Red River Métis | |
H6157 | Private | Leonard | MULVANEY | Red River Métis | |
H6629 | Private | Thomas | MULVANEY | Red River Métis | |
H6755 | Private | James | MURRAY | Red River Métis/Saulteaux | |
H41776 | Private | Antonio | NEAULT | Red River Métis | |
H6507 | Private | Roger | NOBISS | Red River Métis | |
H41778 | Private | Maxwell | NOEL | Dakota | Birdtail Sioux Dakota Oyate, MB |
H41666 | Private | Joseph | OIGE | Metis/First Nations | family ties to Keeseekoose First Nation, SK |
H6932 | Private | Harry | ORVIS | Red River Métis | |
H6526 | Private | Joseph | OUELLETTE | Red River Métis | |
L2858 | Private | Walter | PARENTEAU | Red River Métis | |
L41404 | Private | Robert | PARENTEAU | Red River Métis | |
H6855 | Private | Aime | PAUL | Red River Métis | |
H6871 | Private | Joseph | PAUL | Red River Métis | |
H20021 | Private | William | PAUL | Red River Métis | |
H40700 | Private | Ernest | PAUL | Red River Métis | |
H20829 | Private | Louis | PEPPIN | Red River Métis | |
H6359 | Private | Ferdinand | POITRAS | Red River Métis | |
H6930 | Private | Roy | POTTINGER | Red River Métis | |
H41845 | Private | Victor | PROULX | Red River Métis | |
H20872 | Private | Edward | QUERY | Red River Métis | |
H6597 | Private | Marcel | ROBIDOUX | Red River Métis | |
H6521 | Private | Omar | RUNNELLS | Red River Métis | |
H6909 | Private | Joseph | SAMSON | Red River Métis | |
H41818 | Private | Isaac | SANDERSON | First Nations | family ties to St. Peter’s Reserve/Peguis First Nation, MB |
L2862 | Private | George | SAYERS | Red River Métis | |
H6609 | Lance Corporal | Raymond | SELLERS | Red River Métis | |
H6441 | Staff Sergeant | Clifford | SETTEE | Red River Métis/Cree | |
H6617 | Private | Claude | SHUPE | Red River Métis | |
H6685 | Corporal | Thomas | SINCLAIR | Red River Métis | |
H41699 | Private | Anthony | SIOUX | Red River Métis | |
H6910 | Private | George | SMITH | Red River Métis | |
H41690 | Private | Victor | SMITH | Red River Métis | |
H41715 | Private | Frank | SMITH | Red River Métis | |
H6049 | Private | Alfred | SPIER | Red River Métis | |
H41600 | Private | Thomas | ST GERMAINE | Red River Métis | |
H6352 | Private | George | STODGELL | Red River Métis | |
H6353 | Private | Stanley | STODGELL | Red River Métis | |
H6688 | Private | Garnett | STODGELL | Red River Métis | |
H75233 | Private | Clifford | THOMAS | Red River Métis | |
H41797 | Private | Robert | UTECH | Red River Métis | |
L2860 | Private | Urban | VERMETTE | Red River Métis | |
L2867 | Private | Earl | VERMETTE | Red River Métis | |
H6649 | Private | Thomas | WARD | Red River Métis | |
H16116 | Private | Leonard | WATSON | Red River Métis |
Below is a list of sources and readings which provide information on Canada’s Indigenous people and contemporary issues, and historical information about the involvement of Indigenous people in Canada’s military.
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