Julienne Boyer

BIOGRAPHY PUBLISHED BY LOUIS RIEL INSTITUTE: Julienne Bousquet. Spouse William Boyer (b. 1840). By Brenda Boyer Percell1 and Lawrence Barkwell The Bousquet women are important members of the large Metis Hunting Bands of the plains. They are linked to Jean Baptiste Wilkie’s Band, the various Dumont Bands, and the Little Shell Band of Pembina and Turtle Mountain. Ultimately they were related to most of the families active during the Metis Resistance of 1885, the Dumonts, Boyers, the Touronds, and the Fidlers. Julienne Bousquet was born on June 7, 1847 at St. Boniface, the daughter of Louis Bousquet and Elizabeth Betsy Fisher. Elizabeth Fisher was the daughter of Henry Munroe Fisher and Marguerite Laframboise.2 Julienne married William Boyer, the son of Jean Baptiste Boyer and Helene McMillan on August 26, 1864 at St. Boniface. They later moved to St. Louis north of Batoche. They lived on River Lot 16 (T44-1-3) at St. Louis de Langevin. William was named as a Captain of one of the 19 companies led by Gabriel Dumont during the 1885 Metis Resistance. Along with Charles Nolin he was suspected of disloyalty and arrested by the Exovedate. William appears on Garnot’s list of Resistance participants as # 130, listed as #131 is “Son fils” likely his oldest son Raphael Boyer born September 9, 1867 at St. Boniface. Raphael later married Elise Tourond in 1894 at Batoche.