RIEL, JEAN-LOUIS + Julie Lagimodière (82 ENG -- 81 fran)

RIEL, JEAN-LOUIS + Julie Lagimodière  (82 ENG -- 81 fran)

JEAN-LOUIS RIEL FIIGURES AMONGST THE INFLUENTIAL METIS THAT OFFER LEADERSHIP FOR THE CAUSES OF THEIR PEOPLE. THERE IS ALSO GABRIEL DUMONT MAXIME LÉPINE, PIERRE PARENTEAU, JOSEPH-OCTAVE NOLIN, CHARLES- EUGENE BOUCHER AND OF COURSE LOUIS RIEL

WHEN JOHN A. MACDONALD WAS ELECTED PRIME MINISTER (UNDER DOUBTFUL CONDITION), THE METIS WANTED THEIR OWN FLAG AND WERE GETTING ORGANIZED AS A NATION.

HISTORIANS WILL TELL YOU THAT THE MACDONALD  GOVERNMENT ABUSED AND MISTREATED BADLY THE INDIANS, FRENCH-CANADIANS, AND THE METIS, THE THREE EXISTING NATIONS AT THE TIME.

IN 2017, OUR NATION WILL CELEBRATE ITS 150TH ANNIVERSARY AND IT MIGHT BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC EXCUSES TO THOSE THREE NATIONS !

THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WITH TIME REGARDING THIS MATTER. mbc

       Jean-Louis -son de Jean-Baptiste Riel + Marguerite Boucher (Montagnaise)
                        - n.  1817-06-      Ile a la Crosse, NWT
                        - m. 1844-01-21  St-Boniface, MB + Julie                                                                       Lagimodière
                        - d.  1864-01-21  St-Boniface, MB
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        Jean-Louis Riel, the father of the métis leacer, Louis "David" Riel was born in Saskatchewan at Isle a la Cross in 1817. His family was of French and Chipewyan ancertry. He left Saskatchewan  with them as a small child and spent the rest of his life in Eastern Canada and in the Red River area of Manitoba. He married Julie Lagimodière in Québec . She became the mather of eleven children. Her first born was Louis, the Riel that we know in our area, But let us come back to his father.

       Jean-Louis Riel became a leader of the Métis people for a time. He organized the métis actions in trying to break the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade in the Red River area during the 1840's. He was an able politician, well educated and a capable speaker. In 1847 the Métis, under his leadership, were successful in breaking the Hudson Bay Company's monopoly, and a period of free trade and prosperity for the settlement followed.

      Jean-Louis Riel is also remembered as the "Miller of the Seine" because of the flour mill he established on the Seine, a tributary of the Red River. Unfortunately, his emterprise there was never completely successful due to the poor economic conditions of the time.

     Prior to his death in 1864 he was involved in a variety of occupations, notably the construction of St. Boniface Cathedral.

    ref: History of St.Louis and surronding area (SK)  p. 64