Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Louis Riel- New York Times

MORE TROUBLE FOR ENGLAND.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Mar 13, 1885. pg. 3, 1 pgs
Abstract (Summary)

TORONTO, March 12.--A dispatch to-day from Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, says: "The half breed population here is on the verge of an incipient
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RIEL AGAIN CAUSING TROUBLE.; THE DOMINION GOVERNMENT EXCITED OVER NEWS FROM THE NORTHWEST.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Mar 24, 1885. pg. 1, 1 pgs
Abstract (Summary)

OTTAWA, March 23.--There is great excitement here to-day over the announcement that an outbreak, headed by Louis Riel, who led the rebellion at Red River in 1870, had taken place among the half breeds near Prince Albert, Northwest Territory. In Parliament to-day, Sir John Macdonald said that there was a disturbance among the half breeds under the leadership...

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CURRENT FOREIGN TOPICS.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Oct 16, 1885. pg. 1, 1 pgs
Abstract (Summary)

LONDON, Oct. 15.--It is understood that the sentence of death passed on Louis Riel, the leader of the half breed rebellion in Canada, will be commuted to life-long servitude.
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THE REBEL CHIEF HANGED; LOUIS RIEL PAYS THE PENALTY OF TREASON-FELONY. HIS EXECUTION CREATES INTENSE EXCITEMENT THROUGHOUT CANADA--THE GOVERNMENT DENOUNCED.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Nov 17, 1885. pg. 1, 1 pgs
Abstract (Summary)

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. Sunday morning he awoke very early, and declared to his guards that he had another vision from heaven.

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BATTLE FLAGS AND SCALPS.; LIEUT. HOWARD EXHIBITS HIS COLLECTION OF RIEL REBELLION RELICS.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jul 18, 1886. pg. 8, 1 pgs
Abstract (Summary)

Louis Riel's battle flag is now floating in Waterbury. It is nothing but an ordinary linen table cloth, bearing at one end, sewed on, a steel engraving, "Notre Dame de Lourdes," with considerable holy writing on the back of it. Beneath it is written the full pedigree of the Riel family down to Louis, who paid the penalty of ...
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