Boyer, Rose (Centre), Dawna and Phil Boyer, July 22, 2012

Title:	Boyer, Rose (Centre), Dawna and Phil Boyer, July 22, 2012
Creator:	Fisher, Dennis and Jean
Subject:	Boyer, Rose, Phil, Dawna, Bannock, Back to Batoche, Fisher, Dennis, Jean
Description:	Dennis Fisher's reprint of the Summer/Fall 2012 edition of New Nation Magazine discusses the event in which these photographs were taken: "On Sunday July 22nd, 2012, my wife, Jeannie and I went to the Back to Batoche celebrations. Little did we know we were in for a pleasant surprise. A good friend, Senator Nora Cummings took us to meet an old friend, and that old friend would be Rose Boyer—a lady we well remember from the 1980s. How delightful to see her smiling face! Rose is battling cancer and weighs a mere 87 pounds...a feisty 87 pounds! A <> Métis, Rose lived in the Glen Mary district, north of Kinistino where Canon Edward Ahenakew served the Métis people for many years. It was there that an eight year old Rose started making bannock. She has baked a lot of bannock over the years, and she told us that she has done this at Batoche for 45 of the last 47 years. She's good at it, and I guess practice makes perfect. Over the years, Jeannie and I have photographed Rose baking bannock. I went through some photograph albums and selected some images for the Gabriel Dumont Institute's records. Interesting to note is Rose's jet-black hair in the early photos. Later came the grey hair, and in August this year came the silver. I took over 70 photos of Rose making bannock during the Sunday competition. Over 25 of the photos were of Rose kneading the bannock with her knuckles. One could see she loved what she was doing, and she loved her trip to Batoche. A happy lady, she watched as her son Phil and his wife Gail, were honoured as Mr. and Mrs. Batoche, and was given the added pleasure of enjoying the fiddling prowess of her grandson, Dallas on the Batoche stage. What a proud Métis family! You can tap your feet to the fiddle as you imagine how good that bannock is in this panel of photos." This series of photographs were donated to the Institute by Dennis and Jean Fisher in 2012. This collection contains archaeological artifacts taken from the battlefields of the 1885 Resistance as well as Fort Pitt (Saskatchewan), Cumberland House (Saskatchewan) and St. Peter's Mission, Montana. The collection also includes various artifacts and ephemera relating to the 1885 Resistance and Gabriel Dumont.
Date:	July 22, 2012
Type:	Image
Date of Copyright:	February 26, 2014
Coverage:	Batoche, Saskatchewan
GDI Media Filename:	Rose Boyer (Centre) with Son Phil (Right) and daughter-in-law, Gail (Left).jpg

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