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I have been conducting French-Canadian, Scot-Irish, and US genealogy research for over 20 years. I have performed some Native-American research for friends with Cherokee and Creek ancestry. Canadian Metis connections were generally made when the western migration occurred since the Metis are generally associated with Mid- and Western-Canada. In Eastern Quebec and New Brunswick you will find Iroquois, Maliseet, Micmac, Algonquin and others. I have to ask how you connect to Olivier Calixte Lebel and Louise Ouellet because if you have some Native-American connection it very likely occured with their descendants after 1850 when the families in question moved to the Rimouski area. In other words who were your grandparents and great grandparents and where did they live? One of the difficulties is that after an Indian was baptized and took a French-Canadian surname the capability to establish his/her origin and differentiate them from others with the same surname is very limited. However, if you can track, by child to parent (Ahnentafel), back to the surname progenitors such as Jacques Bois, Jean Soucy, Rene Ouellet, Joseph-Ozanie Nadeau, Olivier Tardif, Jacques Rousseau, Jehan Theriault, etc., then it is unlikely that there is an aboriginal connection in the lineage. If you find a break in the line, i.e., unlisted or unidentified parents, then there is a definite possibility of having such a connection.
In the US you can work with Native-American surveys, censuses and databases such as the Miller Roll, Dawes Roll, Chapman Roll, Census of 1891 and other sources. However, I have not investigated whether or not the First Nations of Canada have compiled similar surveys, reports and databases pertaining to the 1800s and early 1900s. Some Canadian data associated with various Catholic Missions and Indian Reservations does exist, but, it is very difficult to integrate with other sources. I have only found a handful of French-Canadian/Aboriginal connections which appeared valid.
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