Biographie Garson Isabella

This information is from Lawrence and Isabelle Martineaus daughter Delores who is my first cousin. The Garson family were the Indian Agents at the Onion Lake Agency, saskatchewan. Both parents died of the Spanish flu in around the 1917-1919 period. The children were left to fend for themselves until my grandparents heard about it and my grandfather Adrian took a buckboard from Legoff to Onion Lake and brought all the children back to raise them with their own family. They called my grandparents Auntie and Uncle, which was common back in those days, and they may have been some relation in the Indian way. Usually first cousins children would refer to their Elders as Auntie and Uncle which was one of the oral historical ways to keep track of familial relationships. My grandmother was Cree/Saulteaux and Irish and the Garson childrens mother was also native from Saskatchewan reserve now known as Joseph Bighead Reserve.  Theresa Belly most likely was a relation of Marguerite Delaney, my grandmother.

Delores McMillan: My Moms siblings were Charles Garson, Annie Garson who married Pierre Metchewais of Legoff, Alberta, Christina Garson who married Mr. Martin of Legoff, Alberta. Her parents were Charles Nesbitt Garson, Theresa (née Belly)Garson.