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.

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 ...

Metis leader Louis Riel was the face of both the Red River Rebellion of 1869, which led to Manitoba becoming a province in 1870, and the North-West Rebellion of 1885 in Saskatchewan, which resulted in ...

Louis Riel Day honours the Métis leader as well as the contributions of the Métis to Canada. On Nov. 16, 1885, he was executed by Canadian forces for leading the Northwest Rebellion. Who is Métis?

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.

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.

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.

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 ...