LOUIS RIEL'S REBELLION; MOUNTED POLICE ON THEIR WAY TO THE SCENE OF ACTION. Share full article. March 26, 1885. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

The rebellion was suppressed, though, and Riel was hanged for treason on November 16, 1885. ... Louis Riel Statue at the Manitoba Legislative Building.

The North West Rebellion was a brief conflict on the Canadian prairies in spring of 1885. But its outcome had a lasting affect on a nation. Louis Riel watched the first battle of the North West ...

His latest project, “Louis Riel,” (Drawn and Quarterly; 24 pp; $2.95) the tenth and final issue of which has just arrived, was yet another radical shift in subject.

REGINA, Nov. 16.--The last act in the Riel rebellion occurred in the jail yard of the mounted police barracks at Regina this morning, when Riel suffered death for treason-felony.

What does the name Louis Riel mean to you? If you're Chester Brown, the name conjures up images of rebellion and organised strife. Louis Riel was the man who led the Métis against the Canadian ...

The trial of Louis Riel for high treason opens on the morning of July 28, 1885. ... a Saskatoon doctor who’d purportedly talked to Riel at the outset of the rebellion.

The rehabilitation of Louis Riel may now be considered complete. The Métis leader, convicted of treason and hanged in 1885 by the province of Saskatchewan, now has a provincial holiday in his ...

Louis Riel and his councillors pose for a photograph in 1869. WILLIAM JAMES TOPLEY/national archives of canada/Canadian Press For the dark, playful man from Prince Albert, the moment was a kind of ...

Louis Riel (standing, centre) ... Riel had led the 1869 Red River Rebellion that gave birth to Manitoba by 1870, and survived the North-West Rebellion and Batoche in 1885, ...

Unearthing the trail of Riel rebellion's twice-stolen relic. KATHERINE HARDING and Dawn Walton. Batoche, sask. and stony mountain, man. Published October 8, 2005.