LaForme Family
The LaForme family is one of the largest families of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Several members of the family went overseas to fight in World War I and are pictured above, including Daniel, Samuel, Peter, Wesley, Elias and Herbert. This family joined the 114th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which was known as Brock’s Rangers or the “Indian Battalion” due to the large number of Indigenous recruits coming from the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the nearby Six Nations reserve. In total, 36 of the 283 band members of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation joined the war effort, with 22 of the 36 enlisting in the 114th Battalion, specifically. These members of the LaForme family returned from fighting overseas at the end of World War I without fatalities.
Photograph Courtesy of the New Credit Public Library
LaForme Family
The LaForme family is one of the largest families of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Several members of the family went overseas to fight in World War I and are pictured above, including Daniel, Samuel, Peter, Wesley, Elias and Herbert. This family joined the 114th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which was known as Brock’s Rangers or the “Indian Battalion” due to the large number of Indigenous recruits coming from the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the nearby Six Nations reserve. In total, 36 of the 283 band members of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation joined the war effort, with 22 of the 36 enlisting in the 114th Battalion, specifically. These members of the LaForme family returned from fighting overseas at the end of World War I without fatalities.
Photograph Courtesy of the New Credit Public Library