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Doris Jeanne MacKinnon was born on a farm in northeastern Alberta and attended school in the historic town of St-Paul-dés-Métis. She holds a PhD in Indigenous and post-Confederation Canadian history. An independent researcher, author, and post-secondary instructor, she lives in Central Alberta. Her publications, including the bestselling The Premier and His Grandmother and Métis Matriarchs: Agents of Transition (co-edited with Cheryl Troupe), focus on Métis women and Western Canadian topics that expand readers’ understanding of our diverse people and experiences. Her books are written in an engaging style that appeals to a broad cross-section of the population. Marie Rose Delorme Smith (1861–1960) was a Métis woman born during the fur trade era. Married at sixteen to a robe-and-whiskey trader several years her senior, Marie Rose spent most of her adult life in Pincher Creek, Alberta, where she became a homesteader, raised seventeen children, established a boarding house, served as a medicine woman and midwife, and published numerous articles in the periodical, Canadian Cattlemen. Her writing, both published and unpublished, sheds light on Métis identity during a period of cultural, political, and economic change. In 2022, she was designated a Person of National Historic Significance by the Government of Canada. Donald McCargar is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta and is the great-grandson of Marie Rose Delorme Smith.

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