Elizabeth McKay

John McKay (G0102) b. circa 1800 is married to Elizabeth Mettawaben (G0104), b. 1797. These are the root ancestors of the McKay family. John McKay was an employee of the NWC and the HBC who appears in the records in 1815 as working at the Timiskaming post. He marries Elizabeth in 1836 at Timiskaming, by this point they already had five children meaning that they were living a facon de pays prior to the official sanctioning of their marriage. Based on the surname Mettawaben dit Nikens it is reasonable to conclude that Elizabeth was Aboriginal although there is no documentation to prove this. The Rankin Diary demonstrates that John McKay travelled to Mattawa in 1851. He was trading furs and often travelled with Dufonds.

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