Saint Boniface, Winnipeg
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St-Boniface is a city ward and neighbourhood in Winnipeg. Along with being the centre of the Franco-Manitoban community, it ranks as the largest francophone community in Western Canada.
Image: Provencher Blvd, St. Boniface, Winnipeg (505057) (24743076552)
Image: 219 Blvd Provencher "City Hall" "Hotel de Ville" building in St Boniface, Winnipeg
Image: St. Boniface University and Cathedral, Cathedrale Ave, Winnipeg panoramio
Image: ST. BONIFACE CATHEDRAL 05
Louis Riel
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Louis Riel 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. Riel sought to defend Métis rights and identity as the Northwest Territories came progressively under the Canadian sphere of influence.
The Métis provisional government
This fictionalized depiction of Scott's execution in the Canadian Illustrated News was "conceived in the context of heightened partisanship" and "helped inflame anti-Métis sentiment".
Louis Riel circa 1875