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The Mathewsons and Pattons

“Go to Metis; no place like it!” When you come from a big family, it can be mind-boggling figuring out how everyone is related.  Parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, nieces and nephews – it’s no surprise that your head will start to spin, trying to decipher the family tree, particularly when efforts are complicated […]

391 Beach Road / The Little Yellow Kirk on the Hill

Little Metis Presbyterian Church Known locally as the Yellow Kirk (honouring the Scottish roots of the population), the Little Metis Presbyterian Church welcomes parishioners every summer, some from families coming to Metis for generations, and others – newcomers.  Presbyterian services, until this church was built, were held at Leggatt’s Point, three miles distant along poor […]

Merretts of Metis

Professor (McGill) T.H. (Timothy Howard) Merrett Over a period of some 65 years, one or more of the Merretts spent a summer holiday in Metis Beach, starting in the Boule Rock Hotel before I was born until 1973 when Helen paid her last visit, with Ernest, to the Boule Rock the year before it was […]

Biking takes Metis by storm…

By Pamela Andersson Many of us may think that bicycling came to the Metis area mid-20th century, about the time that paved roads did.  Wrong.  We invite you to have a look at some HLSL bicycle photos from Metis from the late 1890s before paved roads, the 20th century, and right up to the present […]

The Baker’s Dozen

Lorn & Winnie Turriff and the Baker’s Dozen « When we first moved to Murdochville, there were two sets of bunk-beds and a cot in one room. » Winnie Campbell was just 17 when she eloped with 21-year-old Lorn Turriff in 1938. Little did she know that she would go on to bring 13 children into the […]