7/27/2019 Boucher, Emma Sr. St. Marcien (b. 1871)

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Emma Boucher, Sister St. Marcien. (1871-1958)

Emma and her sister Caroline (Sr. Bonami, b. 1869) were from the Batoche area, the

daughters of Jean Baptiste Boucher Sr. and Caroline Lesperance. They entered the Order of the

Grey Nuns in the 1880s. They were granddaughters of the famous La Loche Boat Brigade leader 

Alex Bonami dit Lespérance who supported Louis Riel during the 1869070 Resistance. Emma

 persevered in the order where her talents as an artist and seamstress were highly valued. She

spent the last 45 years of her life at the Mother House in Montreal. Caroline however missed her 

family to the point that she left the order.

Their father, Jean Baptiste, was a member of Riel’s 16-man Council (Exovedate) at Batoche

during the 1885 Resistance. Jean Baptiste was also a Captain of one of the 19 companies led byGabriel Dumont during the 1885 Metis Resistance. He moved to Montana after 1885 and resided

at Fort Assiniboine. Their brother was Metis politician Charles-Eugene “Boss” Boucher who

 became an elected MLA for the Batoche district in 1892,

Edited and Compiled by Lawrence BarkwellCoordinator of Metis Heritage and History Research

Louis Riel Institute