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Louis Riel Sr. (père) (July 7, 1817 – January 21, 1864) was a farmer, miller, Métis leader, and the father of Louis Riel. Life [ edit ] Born in Île-à-la-Crosse , Rupert's Land , Riel was the eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Riel, dit L’Irlande, a voyageur , and Marguerite Boucher, a Franco- Chipewyan Métis.
Louis Riel Sr. Click to enlarge. Métis leader, miller. Born at Île-à-la-Crosse in what is now Saskatchewan, he went east to Lower Canada with his family in 1822 and was educated there as a wool carder. At age 21 he joined the Hudson’s Bay Company at Rainy River, where he served from 1838 to 1840.
- Early Life
- Life in The Red River Colony
- Business Career
- Fur Trade and Sayer Trial
- Significance and Legacy
Jean-Louis Riel was the son of voyageur Jean-Baptiste Riel and a French Canadian-Chipewyan woman, Marguerite Boucher. Raised Catholic, Riel was baptized on 23 September 1822 in Berthier-en-Haut (Berthierville, Quebec), after his family returned to Lower Canadafrom the West. He attended school in Berthier, before learning the trade of wool carding. ...
In 1841 or 1842, Riel attempted to carry out a novitiate (probationary period in a religious order) with the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Saint-Hilaire. For unknown reasons, he withdrew his candidacy and returned to the northwest. In the summer of 1843, Riel settled in the Red River colony. Living on a river lot in Saint-Boniface, Riel married Jul...
In 1847, Jean-Louis Riel opened a small mill on his Red River farm, supported by HBC Chief Factor John Ballenden. He planned to establish a fulling mill operation to clean and thicken cloth, but had little success. His attempt to open and operate a carding and grist mill, which earned him the title “miller of the Seine,” also had little success. In...
Since 1821, the practice of free trade in furs had persisted in the Red River valley. However, many free traders were frustrated and constrained by the HBC’s monopoly over the fur trade. On 17 May 1849, Jean-Louis Riel played a decisive role in the trial of Pierre-Guillaume Sayer, one of four Métisfur traders accused by the HBC of illegal trading. ...
Shortly after Jean-Louis Riel died in 1864, the Riel family established their Winnipeg home at the location of today’s restored Riel House National Historic Site. Jean-Louis Riel was a brilliant orator and a pious and courageous man motivated by a keen sense of justice. Through his activism and quest for greater Métis power, he had a profound influ...
22 de abr. de 2013 · Riel was born in 1844 in Saint-Boniface, in the Red River Settlement. His father, Louis Riel, Sr. — a businessman and political leader in the Métis community — organized a large Métis resistance to the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) fur-trading monopoly at the trial of Pierre-Guillaume Sayer in 1849.
Louis Riel Sr early became a man of note in the French Canadian and Métis society of Red River, and showed sympathy with the free traders in furs who were challenging the monopoly of the HBC.
Louis Sr. was born at Ile-à-la-Crosse in 1817, the son of Jean-Baptiste Riel dit l’Irlande and Marguerite Boucher, a Franco-Déné Métis woman whom he married in 1798, ‘à la façon du pays’. In 1843 after spending his childhood in Québec where his parents had returned to live and following an attempt at being a seminarian, Louis Riel ...
Louis Riel (/ ˈ l uː i r i ˈ ɛ l /; French: [lwi ʁjɛl]; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of Canada and its first prime minister John A. Macdonald.
