William Boyer

 Williain married Julienne Bousquet daughter of Louis Bousquet and Bersey Fisher. Louis Bousquet was a protege of Bishop Provencher from the age of four years old, when he was placed under his guardianship. He became a member of the St. Boniface Cathedral Choir, and taught at Provencheis school as a teacher before the Grey Nuns administration. He later became a petty magistrate, appointed by the Council of Assiniboia. Betsey Fisher was the daughter of Henry Fisher, Chief Trader of the Hudson's Bay Company and later a member of the Council of Assiniboia. See also Dorge, 'The Metis and Canadien Councillors of Assiniboia' Part I, The Beaver, (Summer 1974). 18; and Dorge, 'The Metis and Canadien Coundllors of Assiniboia' Part I1 in The Beaver, (Autumn 1974). 39-45. William moved to Batoche in 1881, where he became a merchant. He did not support the Rebellion, and was arrested with Charles Nolin, who had successively married female relatives of both Louis Riel and Maxime LPpine, and who opposed Riel in 1869-70 and in 1885. See Stanley, et al., eds., The Collected Diaries ofLouis Riel Vol. V, 227-8 and 315-6.