Her mother achieved unusually high status for a wife married in this manner of European-Native common law marriage and became well-established within the social hierarchy of York Factory.

[1][3] George Simpson, an administrator of the Hudson's Bay Company, helped Matooskie and her daughters find refuge at Fort Alexander trading post, under the care of Stuart and her uncle, Donald McKenzie.

She was the wife of your choice and has born you seven children, now stigmatized with ignominy ... if with a view of domestick happiness you have thus acted, I fear the aim has been missed and that remorse will be your portion for life ....

[4] The actions of prominent figures like McTavish and Simpson undermined the legitimacy of marriages à la façon du pays and reduced the status of Indigenous women to that of mistresses.

[1] After McTavish's abandonment, Matooskie was sent by George Simpson to Fort Bas de la Rivière, along with other former "country wives" such as Margaret Taylor.

[1] Despite initially not wanting to remarry after her experience with McTavish, Matooskie formally married Pierre Le Blanc, a French Canadian and long-time employee of the Hudson's Bay Company.

While stationed there, Matooskie and her family embarked on a crossing of the Rocky Mountains accompanied by two Catholic clergymen: Modeste Demers, and François Norbert Blanchet.

On 22 October, a major incident occurred when their boat encountered the dangerous Dalles des Morts (Death Rapids) on the Columbia River.

Matooskie lived with her daughter and son-in-law for the rest of her life, accompanying the Dodds in ferrying supplies to HBC posts across the Columbia District.

Racette wrote that her installation "references specific historic incidents, but also the rivers and events that swept [Matooskie] and thousands of women like her away from their families and home communities into relationships that crossed cultural boundaries and into a world that was continually shifting under their feet".