At the Duck Creek Regional Interpretive Centre there are a number of accounts of the first battle of the resistance.
This includes 'Pioneer, Civilian and Military' accounts, a Willow Cree account and a Métis account.
The DLRIC also is a potential source of artefacts, with a listing on the page linked to in the first paragraph above.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
summary on newspaper sources
I have been examining the portrayals of Louis Riel and the North West rebellion in French and English new media. The most fruitful source that I have come upon has been the online catalogue of the Globe and Mail. From this resource I have collected a small cache of articles, advertisements and political cartoons. Of especial interest are a series of advertisements by “Thompson’s Clothiers” which feature racist caricatures of native people. These ads offer an interesting visual element for the possible display, as well as expressing some of the popular attitudes in English Canada, which are sometimes obscured by the journalistic tone of the articles. Obviously if these images were to be used they would be handled sensitively so as not to offend visitors, or imply the museum condones the racist portrayal of native people. I have also found a number of full-page spreads which detail the North West rebellion. This could act interesting visual pieces as well, with lines of particular interest highlighted. These English language sources will be contrasted with French sources from Montreal Papers. These sources have been harder to procure, though a number are currently on order from Ottawa University. Using these two sources we hope to show the different ways the rebellion was communicated to central Canada. These feeds into our larger theme of competing modes of communication at play in the Riel rebellion.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Rebellion -1885 (Carleton University Library)
Title
From the St. Lawrence to the North Saskatchewan [microform] : being some incidents connected with the detachment of "A" Battery, Regt. Canadian Artillery, who composed part of the North West Field Force in the Rebellion of 1885 / by Alexr. Laidlaw.
Author
Laidlaw, Alexander.
Publisher
[Halifax, N.S.? : s.n., 1885?]
Floor 1 Microform MCR
FC18.C15 N. 92684
Dated p. [6]: Halifax, N.S. 9th January, 1885.
With: Report upon the suppression of the rebellion in the North-West Territories, and matters in connection therewith, in 1885 / Department of Militia and Defence of the Dominion of Canada. Ottawa, 1886. --Report of the commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police Force, 1885. Ottawa, 1886. --Le 9me Bataillon au Nord-Ouest (journal d'un militaire) / par George Beauregard. Québec, 1886. --The Queen vs. Louis Riel, accused and convicted of the crime of high treason. Ottawa, 1886. --Census of the three provisional districts of th e North-West Territories. Ottawa, 1886.
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Title
Discours sur la question Riel, prononcé le 17 mars 1886, à la Chambre des communes [microforme] / par Sir Adolphe Caron.
Author
Caron, Adolphe, Sir, 1843-1908
Publishr
[S.l. : s.n., 1886?]
FC18.C15 N. 30087 Floor 1 Microform MCR
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Title
Le cas de Louis Riel condamné et exécuté pour haute trahison [microforme] : rapport / de Sir Alexander Campbell.
Author
Campbell, Alexander, Sir, 1822-1892.
Publisher
[Ottawa? : s.n.], 1885 ([Ottawa?] : Imprimeur de la Reine)
FC18.C15 N. 03882 Floor 1 Microform MCR
1 microfiche (10 images).
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Title: Louis Riel, martyr du Nord-Ouest. [microform]
Author
Presse (Montreal, Quebec).
Publisher: Montreal, Impr. generale., 1885.
Edition
2d ed.
Floor 1 Microform MCR FC3231.P43
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From the St. Lawrence to the North Saskatchewan [microform] : being some incidents connected with the detachment of "A" Battery, Regt. Canadian Artillery, who composed part of the North West Field Force in the Rebellion of 1885 / by Alexr. Laidlaw.
Author
Laidlaw, Alexander.
Publisher
[Halifax, N.S.? : s.n., 1885?]
Floor 1 Microform MCR
FC18.C15 N. 92684
Dated p. [6]: Halifax, N.S. 9th January, 1885.
With: Report upon the suppression of the rebellion in the North-West Territories, and matters in connection therewith, in 1885 / Department of Militia and Defence of the Dominion of Canada. Ottawa, 1886. --Report of the commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police Force, 1885. Ottawa, 1886. --Le 9me Bataillon au Nord-Ouest (journal d'un militaire) / par George Beauregard. Québec, 1886. --The Queen vs. Louis Riel, accused and convicted of the crime of high treason. Ottawa, 1886. --Census of the three provisional districts of th e North-West Territories. Ottawa, 1886.
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Title
Discours sur la question Riel, prononcé le 17 mars 1886, à la Chambre des communes [microforme] / par Sir Adolphe Caron.
Author
Caron, Adolphe, Sir, 1843-1908
Publishr
[S.l. : s.n., 1886?]
FC18.C15 N. 30087 Floor 1 Microform MCR
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Title
Le cas de Louis Riel condamné et exécuté pour haute trahison [microforme] : rapport / de Sir Alexander Campbell.
Author
Campbell, Alexander, Sir, 1822-1892.
Publisher
[Ottawa? : s.n.], 1885 ([Ottawa?] : Imprimeur de la Reine)
FC18.C15 N. 03882 Floor 1 Microform MCR
1 microfiche (10 images).
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Title: Louis Riel, martyr du Nord-Ouest. [microform]
Author
Presse (Montreal, Quebec).
Publisher: Montreal, Impr. generale., 1885.
Edition
2d ed.
Floor 1 Microform MCR FC3231.P43
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The Rebellion (Ottawa U Library)
1) Épitome des documents parlementaires relatifs à la rébellion du Nord-Ouest, 1885. --
Publisher
Ottawa : Imprimerie Maclean, Roger et Cie, 1886.
FC 3215 .C288 1886, MRT General (Ottawa U Library)
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2) The Medical and surgical history of the Canadian North-West Rebellion of 1885 [microform] : as told by members of the hospital staff corps.
Publisher
[Montreal : s.n.], 1886 (Montreal : J. Lovell)
CIHM No. 58777 MRT Microfiche - MRT 1st floor (Ottawa U Library)
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3)
Title: Copy of official diary of Lieut.-Co. Irvine [microform].
Author
Irvine, Lieut.-Col., 1837-1916
Publisher
[S.l. : s.n., 1885?]
1 microfiche (14 fr.). (Ottawa U Library)
Series
CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches ; no. 30572
CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 30572
"(Confidential)."
Covers the activities of the Commissioner of North-West Mounted Police during the Riel Rebellion, from March 18, 1885 to May 23, 1885.
Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1983.
Publisher
Ottawa : Imprimerie Maclean, Roger et Cie, 1886.
FC 3215 .C288 1886, MRT General (Ottawa U Library)
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2) The Medical and surgical history of the Canadian North-West Rebellion of 1885 [microform] : as told by members of the hospital staff corps.
Publisher
[Montreal : s.n.], 1886 (Montreal : J. Lovell)
CIHM No. 58777 MRT Microfiche - MRT 1st floor (Ottawa U Library)
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3)
Title: Copy of official diary of Lieut.-Co. Irvine [microform].
Author
Irvine, Lieut.-Col., 1837-1916
Publisher
[S.l. : s.n., 1885?]
1 microfiche (14 fr.). (Ottawa U Library)
Series
CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches ; no. 30572
CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 30572
"(Confidential)."
Covers the activities of the Commissioner of North-West Mounted Police during the Riel Rebellion, from March 18, 1885 to May 23, 1885.
Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1983.
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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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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Louis Riel
LOUIS RIEL'S INSURRECTION.; Later Advices Indicate that No Indians Have Joined Him.
The Washington Post (1877-1954). Washington, D.C.: Mar 27, 1885. pg. 1, 1 pgs
Abstract (Summary)
OTTAWA, Ont., March 26. -- The government has received no information of any collision between the mounted police and Riel. The so-called rebellion is confined to a small district near Fort Carleton, on the outskirts of the Prince Albert settlement. Riel is reported to have about 100 followers, forty of them Indians and the rest half-breeds.
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IN THE NORTHWEST.; A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE SITUATION OF THE REVOLT. Louis Riel Gathering Indians and Half-Breeds to His Support -- Gen. Middle- ton Heard From at Last.
The Washington Post (1877-1954). Washington, D.C.: May 3, 1885. pg. 1, 1 pgs
Abstract (Summary)
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 2. -- Yesterday afternoon a courier arrived at Qu'Appelle from Fish Creek, the scene of the recent battle, bearing dispatches to Indians at that point, with the object of inciting them to join the rebels. One of these letters, written by Gabriel Dumont, Riel's lieutenant, to Pieapot, was forwarded to some half-breed sympathizers in Winnipeg.
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RIEL'S FATE IS SETTLED.; HE IS NOTIFIED IN HIS CELL THAT HE MUST HANG. He Receives the News Calmly and Talks with Apparent Cheerfulness of His Approaching End.
The Washington Post (1877-1954). Washington, D.C.: Nov 16, 1885. pg. 1, 1 pgs
Abstract (Summary)
REGINA, Nov. 15. -- The special messenger, bringing the warrant signed by the Governor General of Canada, directing that the execution of Louis Riel, leader of the Canadian Half-breeds in their recent rebellion, should take place in accordance with the verdict of the jury which tried him, arrived here on a special train at 8 o'clock to-night.
The Washington Post (1877-1954). Washington, D.C.: Mar 27, 1885. pg. 1, 1 pgs
Abstract (Summary)
OTTAWA, Ont., March 26. -- The government has received no information of any collision between the mounted police and Riel. The so-called rebellion is confined to a small district near Fort Carleton, on the outskirts of the Prince Albert settlement. Riel is reported to have about 100 followers, forty of them Indians and the rest half-breeds.
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IN THE NORTHWEST.; A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE SITUATION OF THE REVOLT. Louis Riel Gathering Indians and Half-Breeds to His Support -- Gen. Middle- ton Heard From at Last.
The Washington Post (1877-1954). Washington, D.C.: May 3, 1885. pg. 1, 1 pgs
Abstract (Summary)
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 2. -- Yesterday afternoon a courier arrived at Qu'Appelle from Fish Creek, the scene of the recent battle, bearing dispatches to Indians at that point, with the object of inciting them to join the rebels. One of these letters, written by Gabriel Dumont, Riel's lieutenant, to Pieapot, was forwarded to some half-breed sympathizers in Winnipeg.
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RIEL'S FATE IS SETTLED.; HE IS NOTIFIED IN HIS CELL THAT HE MUST HANG. He Receives the News Calmly and Talks with Apparent Cheerfulness of His Approaching End.
The Washington Post (1877-1954). Washington, D.C.: Nov 16, 1885. pg. 1, 1 pgs
Abstract (Summary)
REGINA, Nov. 15. -- The special messenger, bringing the warrant signed by the Governor General of Canada, directing that the execution of Louis Riel, leader of the Canadian Half-breeds in their recent rebellion, should take place in accordance with the verdict of the jury which tried him, arrived here on a special train at 8 o'clock to-night.
Louis Riel Day
As you may (or may not) be aware, yesterday was Louis Riel Day in Manitoba (as opposed to Family Day here in Ontario). This proud holiday dates all the way back to last year - 2008. It was also the day that was chosen by the Manitoba Metis Federation to unveil several jailhouse poems written by Riel that they recently purchased at auction. This might make an interesting afterword to the exhibit.
I'm posting links to a few news stories on the events, one from the Globe and Mail, and two from the Winnipeg Free Press, for your interest.
From the Globe: <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090216.wriel17/EmailBNStory/National/home>
From the Free Press:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Riels-contributions-to-Canada-praised-39684707.html
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/After-more-than-a-century-Louis-Riels-final-poems-displayed-in-public.html
I'm posting links to a few news stories on the events, one from the Globe and Mail, and two from the Winnipeg Free Press, for your interest.
From the Globe: <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090216.wriel17/EmailBNStory/National/home>
From the Free Press:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Riels-contributions-to-Canada-praised-39684707.html
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/After-more-than-a-century-Louis-Riels-final-poems-displayed-in-public.html
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