Louis Riel and Métis resistance

A good source of articles and links related about the 1885 Rebellion.

Fully digitized issues of the coverage of the Red River Rebellion are available on the Library and Archives Canada website.

This research guide consists of specific archival references and other sources of information which relate to Louis Riel and the Métis uprisings in 1869–70 and 1885.

The following text is taken from a brochure recently published by the Historic Resources Branch of Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Citizenship. The brochure, which marks the 125th anniversary of Manitoba’s entry into Confederation, summarizes the pivotal events of 1869-1970 and provides information on a number of sites in and around Winnipeg associated with the Resistance. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of Culture, Heritage and Citizenship.

This site offers a chronology of events in the Northwest Resistance of 1885, short biographies of key participants, and a digitized personal journal. From the University of Saskatchewan.

This links to monographs, manuscripts, newspaper and periodical articles related to Louis Riel.

Written and edited by Métis Historian Norma J. Hall, Ph.D., this site comprehensively charts the chronology leading up to the 1870 Riel Resistance and its aftermath while focusing on the birth and influence of the Metis nation in the creation of Manitoba. It is a rich source of citations of primary sources and scanned newspaper articles. The original research, from which the material posted on this site was initially derived, was commissioned for the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia Project, by Manitoba Aboriginal and Northern Affairs.