Defend the Mtis

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Defend the Métis!

• Kristina
• Sargent Park School

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General Information

• Born October 22, 1844 in St.Boniface
• Education started at the age of 10 in 1854
• School run by the Christian Brothers
• Went to Collège de Montreal
• Top student of the class
• He left the Collège finding it to restrictive
• Continued his schooling by living with the Grey
  Nuns
• Broke the rules and missed classes
• He was expelled from both the Collège and the
  Convent

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How He Became Famous

• Became famous by defending the Métis
• Defended the Métis from mistreatment from the
  Canadian government
• Stopped a crew of surveyors from the Canadian
  government and this helped make him the champion
  of the Métis

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Sequence of Events

• Started the North-West Rebellion
• Executed Thomas Scott
• Elected secretary of the Métis National Committee
• Elected member of Parliament for Provencher
• Fell in love with Marcie Julie Guernon and signed
  the marriage contract but her parents opposed the
  marriage because Riel was a Métis
• Second love was Evelina Barnabe but she could not
  adapt to prairie life so his relationship ended

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Sequence of Events contd

• Married a Métisse named Marguerite Monet dite
  Bellehumeur

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Death

• Found guilty of high treason
• Sentenced to hang September 18,1885
• Execution date changed to November 16,1885
• Sent one last letter to his mother and received
  his last rites
• Hung in Regina, Saskatchewan
• At 300 a.m. on November 16, 1885, Riel was hung
• Buried in the St. Boniface Cathedral churchyard

From Sargent Park School website
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Why I Chose Louis Riel

• I chose Louis Riel because he sounded interesting
• Another reason why I chose Louis Riel is because
  my brother told me about him and made me
  interested in it so that is why I chose it
• It was interesting because the things he did and
  what happened in his life made me want to do it

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Why I Chose Louis Riel contd

• I enjoyed doing Louis Riel as my subject because
  it was fun to learn about his life
• I thought Louis Riel should not have died because
  he defended the Métis rights against the Canadian
  government

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Bibliography

• http//www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/
• http//www.escape.ca/shsb/Riel/indexenglish.htm
• Pictures of Louis Riel from the Canadian
  Encyclopedia

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Picture Bibliography

• Picture on title page from- http//www.canadianenc
  yclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNmTCESearchTCE_Version
  A
• Picture on slide 3 from-http//www.escape.ca/shsb
  /Riel/indexenglish.htm
• Picture on slide 6 from- http//www.wsd1.org/sarge
  ntpark/hero/riel.html