Basile DAVID b 1780

NAME: Basile DAVID Quebec French or Metis?

aka:Basil David
Bazil David
Bazile David

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BIRTH: c1780

BAPTISM: Unknown

MOTHER: Unknown

FATHER: Unknown

SIBLINGS: Unknown

MARRIAGE: Unknown

During the winter of 1803-04 M. Curot
affirms that Basile DAVID has "spouse".
This may be Therese DuFAULT.
Therese DuFault gives birth to his Daughter in 1804.

A Different Interpretation from R. MacQuarrie:
The marriage of this couple probably took place somewhere in the
North West, without benefit of clergy. At a guess, it may have taken place
about 1807 or 1808 in the Fort des Prairies (Edmonton district). It should
be appreciated by everyone that the sources of information re French
Canadians and their Metis families at this early period are very sparse.

SPOUSE: DuFAULT, Therese c1784

CHILDREN: DAVID, Madeleine 1804

Possible SON:
There is a document in the Archives Nationale of Quebec for
the marriage in 1840 in Gatineau of Mr. Joseph David
of Templeton (now a part of Gatineau) Metis Son of
Basil David, Metis from Buckingham (Gatineau)
August 17, 1840
Joseph DAVID married Rose ROBERT
daughter of Amable Robert and Narcisse Neveu
This Metis marriage took place in Eastern Canada

LIFE EVENTS:
1782 Birth of Bazile David
1803 July 28, Left to WINTER at YELLOW RIVER
1804 July 24 birth of Daughter: Madeleine DAVID
1804? NWCo. Slated to winter in the Fond du Lac area.
1805 NWCo. LISTED: Men's Names at the Athabasca River Dept.
1810-1811, wintered w/ Alexander Henry: Saskatchewan River
1812 Known to be alive in the Red River District

* the NWCo grand ledger might indicate whether he
stayed on with the NWCo for a few years after 1811.

1861 ??? Is this our Bazile David?

Basile David	Alive in 1861 at Montreal (L'isle)
Bazile David	Alive in 1861 at Terrebonne

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Winter 1804

Read: The story of Basile David's WINTER 1803-04

Yellow River

Yellow River

Lodge on the St. Croix

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CLUE: I Found some DAVIDs in Early Detroit, no real connection..saved for later research.. LINK HERE

CLUE: Basile David, listed as voyageur NW Co., Fond du Lac, 1804

CLUE: I find it curious that there is an "Indian Chief" Named Basil DAVID in BC. I wonder if our BASILE left descendants that far west?

Monday, Aug. 10, 1925 Alleging that white men had made new regulations for Indians in British Columbia, most westerly Canadian province, a powwow of 31 Chiefs at Shuswap sent Chief William Pierrish, Basil David and Johnnie Chillichitsa to lodge a protest with "the grand Chief whose wigwam is Buckingham Palace." Last week they arrived in London and set about securing an audience with "the biggest Chief of all."
Ongoing research...

NOTES: Indians on the Yellow River... Lost the source of these words..

Historically
Yellow River Band (sub-band of of the St. Croix Band of Chippewa Indians)

Contemporary
St. Croix Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians

.....While little can be said about the French era along the St. Croix, for example, there are other periods when the historical record opens up a window on the fur trade. ......Michel Curot left a Journal of his year as a fur trader in the region during the winter of 1803-1804. .....in the St. Croix Valley, on the Yellow River,

<>Bazile David, who already had one spouse, tried to take "a Young girl 9 or 10 years old for his wife." His superior, Michel Curot, however intervened and "sent her back." David was instructed to "take another one, who is Larger."

The product of fur trade marriages, the Metis, or mixed-blooded offspring significantly influenced Chippewa society. The Metis were a significant portion of the population of the Upper Midwest. Historian Jacqueline Peterson estimated that by the late 1820s the Metis south and west of the Great Lakes numbered between 10,000 and 15,000. Some of the Metis were formally educated in the east, dressed and behaved like whites, and entered into fur trade society as clerks, or in the case of the women as wives of white traders. Those denied the opportunity for education worked in the lower levels of the fur trade or simply joined their mother's people, where most were accepted as equals.