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Key Events 

Northwest Rebellion Timeline

3 Battles... Riel accused of committing treasonable acts at the following: 

  • Duck Lake
  • Fish Creek 
  • Batoche 

6 Incidents... The 3 battles arguably led to the use of violence at the following: 

  • Frog Lake
  • Fort Pitt
  • Red Deer Creek
  • Loon Lake
  • Battleford
  • Cut Knife Hill
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Battle of Fish Creek (above)

At Fish Creek the column of some 800 men led by General Middleton encountered about 150 Métis and Native allies on 24 April 1885. Unnerved by his losses, Middleton withdrew. Dumont retreated in the opposite direction (courtesy Library and Archives Canada/C-1728).
Frog Lake Massacre 1885 (above) 

Hand-coloured, Canadian Pictorial & Illustrated War News Souvenir Number, Pub. Toronto Lithographing Co. 1885
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The Battle of Batoche (above) 

The Capture of Batoche, lithograph by Sergeant Grundy (courtesy Library and Archives Canada/C-2424).


Participants in the North West Rebellion1885

Some of the participants in the North West Rebellion were photographed by Buell during their trial in Regina in 1885. Included in the photograph are, beginning in the back row, from left to right, Constable Black, Louis Cochin, Inspector R.B. Deane, Alexis Andre, and Beverly Robertson, and in the front row, Horse Child, Chief Big Bear, Alexander Stewart, and Chief Poundmaker.


Poem

A “never before seen” set of poems handwritten by the famed Metis rebel leader Louis Riel and given to the Mountie who guarded him at a Regina jail ahead of his 1885 hanging for treason to go up for auction.
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100 Photos That Changed Canada
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100 Photos That Changed Canada

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Canada After Riel

The North-West Rebellion marked the final chapter in the story of Louis Riel but also a new chapter in Canada's rush to settle the "last best West."

Just six months after the rebellion's end, Donald A. Smith drove the last spike at Craigellachie, British Columbia, to complete the transcontinental railway. As European settlers flooded the region chasing cheap land, the last of the bison were being slaughtered. Aboriginal peoples, their nomadic way of life destroyed, struggled to adjust to sedentary life on reserves.