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    Louis Riel (/ˈluːi riˈɛl/; French: [lwi ʁjɛl]; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and...
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    The trial of Louis Riel took place in Regina, Canada, in 1885. Louis Riel had been a leader of a resistance movement by the Métis and First Nations people...
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  • Louis Riel is a historical biography in comics by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, published as a book in 2003 after serialization in 1999–2003. The...
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    Winnipeg, Manitoba: Louis Riel Institute. ISBN 978-0-9809912-9-1. Barkwell, Lawrence J. (2010). Women of the Métis Nation, Winnipeg: Louis Riel Institute....
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  • British Columbia (BC), New Brunswick, Ontario, and Saskatchewan; as Louis Riel Day in Manitoba; as Nova Scotia Heritage Day in Nova Scotia; and as Islander...
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    Louis Riel Sr. (père) (July 7, 1817 – January 21, 1864) was a farmer, miller, Métis leader, and the father of Louis Riel. Born in Île-à-la-Crosse, Rupert's...
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    The Louis Riel sculpture is a monument to Louis Riel located on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg. Commissioned by the Manitoba...
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  • after Louis Riel Riel, Winnipeg, a community committee comprising three city wards Alex Riel (born 1940), Danish jazz and rock drummer André Riel (born...
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    North-West Resistance, was an armed resistance movement by the Métis under Louis Riel and an associated uprising by Cree and Assiniboine of the District of...
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    First Riel Rebellion, was the sequence of events that led up to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by Métis leader Louis Riel and his...
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    The Louis Riel School Division (LRSD; French: Division Scolaire Louis-Riel, DSL-R) is a school division in Winnipeg, Manitoba, offering English-language...
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  • Due to Louis Riel's ubiquity as one of the most studied figures in Canadian history, the historiography of Louis Riel naturally leads to several interpretations...
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    45°36′N 73°36′W / 45.60°N 73.60°W / 45.60; -73.60 Anjou–Louis-Riel is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National...
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    Flanagan, Thomas. "Louis Riel and the Dispersion of American Metis pg. 179" Ens 1994. Bruyneel 2010. Flanagan, Thomas. "Louis Riel and the Dispersion...
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  • The Riel Rebellion (or more precisely Riel Rebellions) is the name often given to two uprisings led by Louis Riel in what are now Manitoba and Saskatchewan...
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  • Louis Riel (1844–1885) was a Métis rebel leader in Canada. Louis Riel may also refer to: Louis Riel Sr. (1817–1864), father of the Métis rebel leader...
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  • École secondaire publique Louis-Riel (Louis Riel Public Secondary School) is a high school in the Blackburn Hamlet neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada...
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    success in the 2000s came with Louis Riel (2003), a historical-biographical graphic novel about rebel Métis leader Louis Riel. Paying for It (2011) drew controversy...
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    began publishing works on Riel—leader of the 1885 North-West Resistance—in the 1970s, which evolved into a multi-year 'Louis Riel Project' that he coordinated...
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    Thomas Scott (Orangeman) (category Louis Riel)
    wall by the provisional government of the Red River Settlement led by Louis Riel. Scott's execution led to the Wolseley Expedition – a military force said...
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  • regarding Indigenous identity claims. Teillet is the great-grandniece of Louis Riel, a political leader of the Métis people. University of Guelph, 2014 Law...
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    January 10, 1952), also known as Honoré Jackson or Jaxon, was secretary to Louis Riel during the North-West Rebellion in Canada in 1885. He was married to Aimée...
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    Battle of Batoche (category St. Louis No. 431, Saskatchewan)
    defeat of the defenders of Batoche and its capture led to the surrender of Louis Riel on May 15 and the collapse of the Provisional Government. Other groups...
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    Antigonish. When he returned to Ottawa, the Louis Riel crisis was in full swing. The question of what to do with Riel, who had been sentenced to hang for leading...
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  • October 2023. On 7 December 2023, Louis Riel was granted the honorary title of "First Premier of Manitoba" after the Louis Riel Act received royal assent. As...
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    Aulneau (1705-1736) Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye (1713-1736) Louis Riel (1844–1885) Louis Riel, Sr. (1817–1864) John Rowand III (1812-1865) Ambroise-Dydime...
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    is approximately 391 kilometres (243 mi) long. It is also known as the Louis Riel Trail (LRT) after the 19th century Métis leader. It runs from Highway...
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  • Riel is a 1979 Canadian made-for-television biographical film about Métis leader Louis Riel. Louis Riel (Cloutier) leads the Red River and North-West...
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    force authorized by Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald to confront Louis Riel and the Métis in 1870, during the Red River Rebellion, at the Red River...
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    Esplanade Riel is a pedestrian bridge located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was named in honour of Louis Riel. It is a side-spar cable-stayed bridge which...
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