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Author : Jennifer Reid
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780826344151
"Jennifer Reid looks at the man known today as the founder of Manitoba. Not just a traditional biography, Reid examines Riel's education and religious beliefs."--[book jacket].
Author : Thomas Flanagan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802071848
Biography, focussing on Riel's prophetic mission.
Author : Hans V. Hansen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773590472
In 1885, Louis Riel was charged with high treason, found guilty, and consequently executed for his role in Saskatchewan's North-West Rebellion. During his trial, the Métis leader gave two speeches, passionately defending the interests of the Métis in western Canada as well as his own life. Riel's Defence studies these speeches, demonstrating the range of Riel's political and personal concerns. The first and better known of the two speeches addresses the jury, while Riel's second speech - rarely reprinted - addresses the court following his guilty verdict. Both orations have been edited, annotated, and reprinted, and are followed by essays from diverse perspectives including philosophy, law, history, political science, religion, and communication studies. Through the course of their inquiry, contributors come to understand more about Riel's personal character and political thought, as well as his arguments supporting Métis land claims, grievances against the federal government, and his immigration plan for the North-West. Evaluating the rhetorical quality, legal merit, and cultural stakes of his speeches, Riel's Defence reveals the significance of the last public statements made by a man who indelibly shaped Canada’s history by combining his personal vision with a national vision.
Author : M. Max Hamon
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780228000099
Shining a spotlight on the life, vision, and cultivation of one of Canada's most influential historical figures.
Author : Chester Brown
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770460850
Chester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel. Brown won the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Metis leader's life. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, an embattled figure in Canadian history, regarded by some as a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.
Author : David G. Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1553804961
"Louis Riel, prophet of the new world and founder of the Canadian province of Manitoba, has challenged Canadian politics, history and religion since the early years of Confederation. In Canada's most important and controversial state trial, Riel was found guilty of "high treason," sentenced to hang and executed on November 16, 1885. Was the execution of Riel the hanging of a traitor? Or the legal murder of a patriot and statesman? As reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is on the minds of many today, these are questions that must receive thoughtful answers. Weaving together Riel's words, writing and recent historical research, long-time Riel activist David Doyle provides Louis Riel with the opportunity for the first time to give his own account of his political career so as to assume his proper place in Canada's history as its Indigenous (Métis) Father of Confederation."--Publisher's website.
Author : Ane Riel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473555037
The multi-award-winning international bestseller. Suspenseful and heart-breaking, Resin is the story of what can happen when you love someone too much – when your desire to keep them safe becomes the thing that could irrevocably harm them. * Liv died when she was just six years old. Her father knew he was the only one who could keep her safe in this world. So one evening he left the isolated house his little family called home, he pushed their boat out to sea and watched it ruin on the rocks. Then he walked the long way into town to report his only child missing. But behind the boxes and the baskets crowding her Dad’s workshop, Liv was hiding. This way her Dad had said, she’d never have to go to school; this way, she’d never have to leave her parents. This way, Liv would be safe. * Winner of Scandinavia's most prestigious awards: The Glass Key, The Golden Bullet, Best Crime Novel from the Swedish Crime Writer's Academy and The Harald Mogensen Award.
Author : Sharon Stewart
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770706569
Louis Riel devoted his life to the Metis cause. A fiery activist, he struggled against injustice as he saw it. He was a pioneer in the field of Aboriginal rights and land claims but was branded an outlaw in his own time. In 1885, he was executed for treason. In 1992, the House of Commons declared Riel a founder of Manitoba. November 16 is now designated Louis Riel Day in Canada.
Author : Maggie Siggins
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443402392
Published to widespread critical acclaim, Riel: A Life of Revolution proved that an intimate and revealing portrait of one of our most enduring—and most isunderstood—legends could be an almost instant national bestseller. ‘Who is Louis Riel?’ Maggie Siggins asks, and comes up with some fascinating answers. Seen by many as an unrepentant traitor, a messianic prophet and a pathetic tyrant, Siggins uncovers the real Louis Riel—a complex man full of contradiction and angst, a charismatic visionary and poet, a humanitarian who gave up prestige and wealth to fight for the Métis people. Infused with atmosphere and detail, this fascinating portrait is illuminating in its accounts of the people and events that moulded the enigmatic rebel. Revealing a man passionate about forging an equitable and just relationship between native and white people, Riel: A Life of Revolution is more relevant today than ever before.
Author : Maggie Siggins
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551993256
Compulsively readable, this first social history of the opening up of the Canadian West is a triumph of historical detective work and gives us Siggins at the top of her game. While researching the biography of Louis Riel, Maggie Siggins became aware of a figure lurking in the background who had had a profound influence on the great Canadian reformer. This was his grand-mother Marie-Anne Lagimodière, née Gaboury. As Siggins’ research progressed, she came to regard Marie-Anne as the most exceptional Canadian woman of the nineteenth century. The perils of Laura Secord and Susanna Moodie paled in comparison, yet she remains largely unknown. Beautiful and rebellious, Marie-Anne was still unmarried at twenty-five—unheard of in 1800s Quebec habitant society. Furthermore, once she did marry Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière, she insisted on accompanying her fur trapper husband to the uncharted wilderness of western Canada. The year was 1807, and no European woman had yet ventured west of the Great Lakes region. For the next thirty years, she would live among the native people or at fur-trading forts from Pembina to Edmonton House, leading an undoubtedly difficult life but one with freedoms unknown to women in western societies of her time. Drawing from primary sources, Siggins paints a vivid portrait of life in the West, from survival on the plains and bison hunts to the tribal warfare triggered by the fur-trade economy. Through it all, Marie-Anne survived and thrived, living to ninety-six, the matriarch of a large and diverse family whose descendants still live in Manitoba.
Author : Stephen Legault
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781927129852
It is the spring of 1885 and the Northwest Rebellion has broken out. Amid the chaos of the Battle of Batoche, a grisly act leaves Reuben Wake dead. A Metis man is arrested for the crime, but he claims innocence. When Durrant Wallace, sergeant in the North West Mounted Police, begins his own investigation into the man's possible motives, he learns there were many who wanted Wake dead. What Durrant uncovers is a series of covert conspiracies surrounding Metis leader and prophet Louis Riel. And, during the week-long intermission in Riel's trial, he sets a trap to find Wake's true killer. The Third Riel Conspiracy is the second book in the Durrant Wallace Mysteries, a series of historical murder mysteries set during pivotal events in western Canada's history.
Author : J. M. Bumsted
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111305103
This book takes a look at Louis Riel from a historical perspective, examining the political and cultural ramifications of Riel's life for the citizens of Western Canada. As a revolutionary, as a religious prophet, and as a spokesman for the Metis people, Louis Riel changed the course of Canadian history.
Author : Riel Nason
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443175142
A beautiful celebration of small town life, friendship, and opening up to change! Hope’s world is shaken when her parents announce that they’re leaving their small New Brunswick town and moving to Toronto for her father’s job. Hope’s anxiety, manageable before that point, skyrockets as she fears making new friends and leaving her beloved ocean, and the sea glass that she has been carefully nurturing for years. At least there’s a tremendous diversion for her final summer — her village of St. David’s is one of five entrants in a nationwide TV contest that celebrates “Canada’s Tiniest Treasures.” In the countdown to the summer’s end — and the move date —Hope and her best friend, Willa, dedicate themselves to the St. David’s campaign, celebrating what is unique about small town life, and their friendship.
Author : Louis Riel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Northwest Resistance, Canada, 1885
ISBN : OXFORD:N10615733
Author : Joseph Edmund Collins
Publisher : Rose Pub.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015059505027