PLEASE NOTE: for the health of everyone, we request that you refrain from using scented hygiene products on the day you attend. Westwood is a SCENT-FREE space.

Most of the speakers in our series have been Indigenous, and spoken from that experience. Beatrice, on the other hand, will be speaking from her roots and lifelong experience in Metis culture.

Beatrice Demetrius neé Jobin is a Beatrice Demetrius neé Jobin is a Métis mother, grandmother, and chapan (great-grandmother). She grew up in the Alberta farming community of Big Prairie with seven siblings; both parents were Métis.

She worked at the Métis Nation for many years as their lead genealogist and was a member of the Métis culture team, travelling to many different archives in Canada and also to the Utah research centre.

She retired in 2018 but has continued working on a contract basis, researching Métis soldiers of WWI, WWII, and Korea. She has completed and verified the genealogy of over 7000 Metis soldiers to date.

Beatrice is an Elder of the Métis National Council Veterans of Canada and, in April of this year, travelled to Europe to place Métis flags on soldier’s graves at Groesbeek and Holten, Holland.

Beatrice’s knowledge and skill continues to be in high demand; she continues to promote Métis culture and history when asked to do so.

You can expect to be both educated and delighted by this wonderful storyteller!