I have prominent Canadian Westerners in my family heritage.  I am the great-great-grand nephew of Gabriel Dumont, the military general in Louis Riel's campaign to create the Province of Manitoba.  Also, my great-great grandfather was Antoine Joseph Morin, who was the captain of the buffalo hunters that fed the British explorer Captain John Palliser and his men, and to guide them up to the Kootenay mountains in what is now the provinces of British Columbia (B.C.) and Alberta.  My great grandfather was Joseph Antoine Morin who was the interpreter for Chief One Arrow at the Louis Riel trial 1885. In 1876 Joseph  interpreted for Major Walsh where Chief Sitting Bull camped near Woodmountain, Saskatchewan after the fight at Little Big Horn.  My Grandfather Francois Morin (pictured above) was a Rodeo Rider until he became blind in his early thirties. My father Charles Morin was a warrior in World War II,  of  the Sea Forth Highlanders. As for myself, I am a Social Policy Research Consultant, having done 15 years of  research into Aboringinal treaties, land claims (Metis and First Nation) plus a part time Actor. Feel free to browse my links they also carry important information.
 
    In my geneology research I found my Royal Blood of Scotland:  I am a descendant of the 3rd Laird of Culloden, the 5th Laird of Culloden, and also the 2nd Earl of Seaforth, 1st of Kildun, 1st Laird of Gruinard, 2nd Laird of Gruinard and Laird of the Prairie - pretty neat, eh?  I have tracked back to the late 1400's,  but no one has given me a castle yet maybe I have to go over there and claim it as a descendent of these Lairds and Earls. (I'm half-serious about the castle!)

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