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 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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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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after Louis Riel Riel, Winnipeg, a community committee comprising three city wards Alex Riel (1940-2024), Danish jazz and rock drummer André Riel (born...
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Métis (section Louis Riel and the United States)
as the Red River Métis. In 1870, the Métis Provisional Government of Louis Riel negotiated the entry of the Red River Settlement into Confederation as...
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Family Day (Canada) (redirect from Louis Riel Day)
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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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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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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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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North-West Rebellion (redirect from Second Riel Rebellion)
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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Red River Rebellion (redirect from First Riel Rebellion)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tom Flanagan (political scientist) (section Louis Riel)
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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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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John Sparrow David Thompson (section Louis Riel crisis)
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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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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capital and largest city, and is named after Louis Riel, the leader of the 1870 Red River Rebellion. Riel is bordered to the south by Seine River, to the...
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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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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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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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Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière (category Riel family (Canada))
Rupert's Land. Lagimodière is noted both as the grandfather of Métis leader Louis Riel, and as the husband of Marie-Anne Gaboury, the first woman of European...
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North-West Rebellion of 1885, a resistance movement headed by Métis leader Louis Riel in what is now the modern province of Saskatchewan. Crozier was born in...
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