John, because Canada is a bilingual country, what you and your friend probably saw was a typical Canadian legal form, which included headings in both English and French, side by side, hence Name/Nom or Street/Rue.   

While some Canadian legal documents still use archaic English terms, such as "spinster", to describe an unmarried woman, the derogatory term "savage" is not a legal term in English on such documents in Canada.

However, the term "sauvage" was quite possibly used in the French section on the same form. As far as I'm able to ascertain, it used to be standard legal parlance for the term "Indian" in Quebec and quite possibly still is. Apparently the word doesn't have the same connotations in French as it does in English......