Red River Rebellion

failures, while also exploring the controversial question of whether Louis was a villain or a hero, but who says he couldn't be both. Louis Riel was born on the twenty second of October on 1844 in Saint Boniface, Red River

Louis Riel was a national hero, especially to the Métis of Canada. He defended his people, the Métis, and their rights by creating Le Comité National des Métis and the provisional government at Fort Garry. He showed the Canadian government that he is not a joke with the execution of Thomas Scott. He contributed to the creation and government placed in Manitoba with the Manitoba Act. And he also left, coming back with a new view and to attempt a peaceful negotiation. Louis Riel went against the Prime

After failing in becoming a priest, Louis Riel lived with his Uncle John Lee at Mile-End and then eventually lived a village north of Montreal. During this belief period Louis Riel had gotten a job as a law clerk in Montreal in order to help his mother to pay off father debts. Many scholars and biographers of Louis Riel have often under look the importance of his law clerk job in Montreal after leaving College de Montreal. However, upon further investigation of the office of where Louis Riel worked

uncontrolled behaviour. The rebellion of 1885 was more than a metis uprising incited by one man. It was a resistance by the people of the North West as a whole, and in this respect the first of a series of western protest movements against central Canada in general and the federal government in particular. 1 In contrast, French-Canadian Historians saw Riel as a misguided leader acting of concern for his Metis People. Both groups of historians saw Riel and the rebellion largely in terms of the continuing

In June 24, 1968, the leader of RIN Pierre Bourgault, had called for public protests against Pierre Trudeau. The RIN was involved in a riot which took place in Montreal streets and park that forced the suspension of the negotiations. Shortly, when the negotiation was resumed in the August of 1968, the RIN held their early position of making Quebec a unilingual and thus the RIN withdrew from the negotiation. Meanwhile, the MSA and RN was integrated, Rene Levesque was chosen as acting president of

grace of God, I am the founder of Manitoba.” Macdonald was open to the idea of creating a new province, that he even granted the “children of the Metis,” 200 000 hectares of land, the right to self-government, and a railway. On May 12, 1870, the Red River settlement founded by the Metis became the small but powerful province of Manitoba due to the perseverance of Riel. Louis Riel was the essential advocate that made a minority of people into a province. He aided in the implementation of the Manitoba

known as the Red River rebellion occurred. The Red River rebellion was caused when Canada gained a lot of land in Rupert’s Land, this scared a lot of us as we feared for our culture, and land rights under the control of the Canadiens. Because of this, we banded together to create a provisional government to make terms for entering their colony. This created the province of Manitoba, a new name for the same home. In, 1812 Scottish settlers created our colony at the junction of two rivers. In, 1836

controversial figures in Canadian history, and even to this day – more than a century after his execution – he continues to be remembered. Many believed him to be a villain; others saw him as a hero. So who was he really? Born in St. Boniface at the Red River Settlement of Canada (present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba) on October 22, 1844, Louis Riel hoped one day to follow his father’s footsteps and become a great Métis leader just like him. Eventually, Riel was seen as a hero to the French-speaking Métis.

Overall, He tried to take a stand against a bureaucracy that threatened the Métis way of life The second rebellion took place in 1885, branded as the Northwest Resistance. It began once again when unresolved Métis grievances towards the Canadian Government began to heighten. They were apprehensive regarding the encroachment onto their lands by the Canadian regime;

view Louis Riel as a national criminal. As a result, Manitoba was established as a province from the Red River settlement, the Manitoba Act was enacted and Riel fled into exile within U.S borders after the execution of Thomas Scott. Overall, he attempted to take a stand against a bureaucracy that threatened the Métis way of life, only to have to escape in fear of being executed. The second rebellion took place in 1885, branded as the Northwest Resistance. It began once again when unresolved Métis