Louis Riel (Sr.) tried to set up water mills along the Seine River in St. Boniface, but he never had a great deal of success. 3. Riel might have become a missionary were it not for his father ...

In 1857, a young boy named Louis Riel left his home on the prairies bound for Montreal. The bright 13-year-old was chosen by a local bishop, Alexandre-Antonin Taché, as a candidate for the ...

Supplied photo Louis Riel Sr., also known as Louis the Miller, helped break the HBC monopoly on the fur trade and was also an advocate of bilingualism in Rupertsland. Riel the Miller supported a ...

The trail honours two much-loved leaders within the Métis community — Louis Riel Sr. from the distant past and Gabriel Dufault from present times. The trail starts at John Bruce Road (West).

Louis Riel was hanged for treason in 1885, but his ghost has never left us. It stirs whenever Canadians scrap over issues of regional authority, language rights or cultural freedoms. Riel midwived ...

The Métis leader and founder of Manitoba Louis Riel — born on Oct. 22, 1844 at Saint-Boniface — has divided Canadians for generations. Was he an inspired leader whose Métis provisional ...

For Gillian Gallow, costume designer of the Canadian Opera Company's Louis Riel (on until May 13 at Toronto's Four Seasons Centre) that task took centre stage. "My role as a designer is to ...

2. Louis Riel's father, who was also a Métis organizer, was known as the Miller of the Seine. Louis Riel (Sr.) tried to set up water mills along the Seine River in St. Boniface, but he never had a ...