DCHP-3

Meuron

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

See de Meuron 1938 quote.

Quotations

1817
He was in a canoe which upset and drowned . . . two Meurons and six Indians.
1821
I found her at the Colony happily married to Sergeant-Major Veitch of the Meurons, a most excellent Man, and the Mother of two Children.
1935
Despite his German name, due to his descent from one of Lord Selkirk's Meuron soldiers, Georges Klyne passed for a Metis or French half-breed, as do many. . . .
1963
Meurons, without delay, / Please play us something gay, / A lively tune to start our happy ball [from an old Metis folk-song].