Louis Riel

Standard Name: Riel, Louis

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Family and Intimate relationships	Anna Steele	AS 's brother Sir (Henry) Evelyn Wood was an army officer who was responsible for negotiating the Treaty of Pretoria, signed on 5 April 1881, at the end of the Boer War. Popular with Queen Victoria
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Agnes Maule Machar	AMM 's poetry was conventional in form and classical in diction, but tackled Canadian themes in the spirit of the Confederation Poets who at around this time were seeking to inject Canadian poetry with a...

Timeline

11 October 1869

Louis Riel , leader of the Métis or mixed-race people, headed the Red River Rebellion near Winnipeg, Canada.

Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

290

Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.

269

1 November 1869-24 August 1870

In Canada the Red River Rebellion was fought over land issues.

Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.

II: 475-6

Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

835

26 March-2 July 1885

The North West Rebellion led by Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont (of the Métis), and Poundmaker and Big Bear (of the Cree tribe), was fought in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.

II: 483

Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.

797

Hamilton, Cicely. Modern Sweden, as Seen by an Englishwoman. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1939.

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