Ignace Kayaanra

IGNACE (aka IGNACE FRIED, YGNOUCE FRISE, IGNACE FRAZY or IGNACE KAYAANRA)

IgnaceKayaanra belongs to the Iroquois Nation. For confirmation of this fact see the following image of his daughter's Sarah's marriage registration

Ignace and his wife Marguerite were living at Colville in Stevens County, Washington, in the United States of America, probably at Chewelah there, when their son Ignace was born in about 1853 British Columbia, Marriage Registrations They had a daughter named Catherine who was born there in about 1854, probably also at Chewelah near Colville, and they had a second son named Pierre who was born there British Columbia, Marriage Registrations probably in 1855 or 1856 British Columbia, Marriage Registrations

Jaco Finlay guides five Iroquois trappers to the Columbia in June 1808

The following piece published by HistoryLinks helps to explain the presence of Iroquois west of the Rockies: *In the summer of 1808, Jacques Raphael 'Jaco' Finlay (1768-1828) guides five Iroquois trappers from eastern Canada across the Continental Divide. Finlay, a "free hunter" and former and future clerk for the fur-trading North West Company, brings the eastern Indians to trap beaver with him in the firm's newly established Columbia District. Known only by their first names -- Joseph, Pierre, Ignace, Martin, and Jacques -- these men, and those who follow them west, will change the economic and social fabric of the Inland Northwest. After Finlay establishes Spokane House near present-day Spokane in 1810, many of the Iroquois will settle nearby in the Colville Valley" History Links

Yakima Indian War

What it was that moved Ignace to uproot his family from their home at Chelewah, near Colville in Washington, and travel north to Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada, a distance of 892 kilometers (554 miles), is not yet clear. It may be worth noting, though, just in case some new evidence should eventually come to light, that the First Nation people who were settled at Colville in Stevens County, Washington, USA, were forced to defend themselves against the intrusion of european miners and settlers.Their resitance culminated in what is now known as the Yakima Indian War. The Yakima and their allies were outnumbered and eventually forced to submit. Twenty-four chiefs were captured and then shot or hanged; but it seems that Chief Kamiakin and some of his people fled north to Canada. Yakima Indian War

Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada

It is not certain but it seems quite likely, probable even, that Ignace and Marguerite also had a daughter named Nancy who was born at Kamloops in British Columbia in 1856 or 1857. British Columbia, Marriage Registrations The possibility of this actually being the case is suggested by the fact that both of Ignace and Marguerite's sons were afterwards married at Kamloops, and by the appearance there of another or the same Ignace with a wife named Margaret If this is the case then Ignace and his wife must have set out from Colville soon after the birth of their second son Pierre in 1855 or 1856 British Columbia Marriage Registrations and arrived in Kamloops just before the birth of their putative daughter Nancy in 1856 or 1857 British Columbia Marriage Registrations

Children

1. Ignace
2. Catherine
3. Pierre Ignace
4. Nancy Kayaanra
5. Sarah