Marie Rose Delorme Smith

Marie Rose Delorme Smith (1861–1960) was a Métis woman born during the fur trade era. Married at sixteen to a robe-and-whiskey trader several years her senior, Marie Rose spent most of her adult life in Pincher Creek, Alberta, where she became a homesteader, raised seventeen children, established a boarding house, served as a medicine woman and midwife, and published numerous articles in the periodical, Canadian Cattlemen. Her writing, both published and unpublished, sheds light on Métis identity during a period of cultural, political, and economic change. In 2022, she was designated a Person of National Historic Significance by the Government of Canada.