Metis woman says Saskatchewan settlement should be designated heritage site

BATTLEFORD, Sask. – There are calls for a Metis settlement in Saskatchewan to be designated as a UNESCO cultural site or a federal heritage site.

The suggestion came at a meeting of the Gabriel Dumont Institute and Parks Canada to collect Metis history in the Battlefords area.

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Marilyn Richardson told the meeting that the settlement of Bresaylor is unique because it is an English Metis community, and the name is a combination of three last names: Bremner, Sayers, and Taylor.

She says so much of the settlement is physically still there and it would be good to have it designated as a historic site, whether that be provincially, nationally or a UNESCO cultural site.

(CJLR)