Root Ancestor definition

Root Ancestor or “Métis Root Ancestor” means an individual who is a Documented Métis living in the Identified Métis Community, or the sibling of a Documented Métis living in the Identified Métis Community; and is ancestrally connected to an Identified Historic Métis Community through their Forebearers, siblings, or themselves living in the community prior to Effective Control (the period of time when the Crown likely effected on the ground legal and political control), and included in a VMFL. For greater certainty, an individual who may be the descendent of a European man and a First Nations woman (i.e., a mixed Aboriginal ancestry individual), without meeting the criteria set out above and being a part of a VMFL, is not a Métis Root Ancestor for the purposes of the Policy.
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  • Descendant of an individual means all of the individual's descendants of all generations, with the relationship of parent and child at each generation being determined by the definition of child and parent contained in this section.

  • Lineal Descendant means a child, grandchild, great grandchild, etc., and shall include only lineal descendants by and through birth, or by legal adoption of an individual who has not attained age 18. The term shall also include individuals so born or adopted after the date of this Agreement.

  • Siblings means brothers or sisters. They are defined as children with at least one natural or adoptive parent in common, living at the same or a different address. Children living permanently in the same household at the same address would also be counted as siblings, regardless of their actual relationship to each other. To qualify as a sibling a child must be on the roll of the school in question at the date of application, allocation and admission.

  • Sibling means each of two (2) or more children having a parent in common by blood, adoption, marriage, or foster care.

  • Grandchild means a child of the employee's child.