Type Archives | Conflicting Loyalties: The Hardisty Family Legacy

Lady Lougheed with Edgar and Harold Riley

Silent video of Lady Lougheed with her son, Edgar Lougheed (left) and Harold Wm. Riley (right) filmed outside of Beaulieu. From ‘Old Timers of Southern Alberta’. Filmed by […]

Lady Lougheed at Beaulieu

Silent video of Lady Lougheed filmed outside of Beaulieu. From ‘Old Timers of Southern Alberta’. Filmed by Dr. Burwell James Charles, a local dentist and amateur filmmaker, probably […]

Community Building

Joe Lougheed [0:00 – 2:27] It’s clear from what I’ve read and what I’ve learned that she was fiercely independent woman. In her time she and other […]

A Proper Education

Lawrence Gervais [0:00 – 0:33] She was a Miss Davis School student; she was groomed to be a formidable wife to a European person who worked in the […]

Reconciliation

Joe Lougheed [0:00 – 0:54] Métis culture is complicated. There are those that are on the land and that live in the settlements that probably practice a more […]

Character

Joe Lougheed [0:00 – 0:43] It’s fascinating that my great grandfather had a direct connection to the creation of Banff National Park. And it is through that, later […]

Marginalization

Lawrence Gervais [0:00 – 1:22] In terms of early Métis settlement, we always talk about Alexis Cardinal and his cabins. Currently you can see cabins that are the […]

Rebellion

Olivia Marie Golosky [0:00 – 0:35] People consider Louis Riel a really famous Canadian, even though he never considered himself a Canadian. He actually fought against the Canadian […]

Identity

Lawrence Gervais [0:00 – 2:37] Métis and half-breed were terms they used in censuses, so when they were going and doing their counts, they would count you as […]

Fur Trade

Olivia Marie Golosky [0:00 – 1:37] It’s tough, I always kind of talk what Métis identity means, and who is Métis and who isn’t; it’s a bit […]

Hardisty Family

Joe Lougheed [0:00 – 1:36] Growing up we always knew of our Métis heritage. There was a prominent photo of my great great grandmother always in our house […]

Belle, James, and Miss Merritt

This photo of Belle (left) and James was taken at Banff. They are accompanied by Miss Merritt (as indicated in the written information on the back) but there […]