A once-popular sports event is making a comeback at the Batoche national historic site. From the 1970s to the 1990s, the Saskatchewan Louis Riel Relay took place along Saskatoon's riverbank.

While Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan enjoy Family Day and in Prince Edward Island celebrates Islander Day, in Manitoba it's Louis Riel Day. Riel, the Métis leader regarded as the father of ...

Métis leader Louis Riel was connected to it ... It also rang out in times of celebration and mourning. It was Batoche that Riel had hoped would become the headquarters for his provisional ...

CLARKE'S CROSSING, Northwest Territory, May 16.--Riel was captured at noon yesterday near Batoche, having been found in the road unarmed a little south of Batoche in company with three men.

According to the account, published in a magazine nearly 40 years later, Armstrong was there because he had recently accepted Louis Riel's surrender near Batoche, in what is now Saskatchewan ...

The Gabriel Dumount Institute (GDI) will hold a ceremony Saturday in remembrance of Riel and Métis veterans, in partnership with Parks Canada and Friends of Batoche. "Louis Riel was our leader ...

SASKATOON – Louis Riel Day was marked by ceremonies across the country, including one in Saskatoon, where gatherers had the chance to witness the historic Bell of Batoche in person. The bell is ...

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Who was Louis Riel?” asked my daughter’s American boyfriend. “A famous Canadian explorer!” she replied cheerfully. I groaned. How could she not have known Riel was a Metis resistance leader hanged for ...

Louis Riel was hanged 135 years ago today ... He likes that he hears the battles at Red River and Batoche now sometimes being referred to as resistances, not a rebellions. He remembers his ...

BATOCHE, Sask. (CP) — They were leaders who fought together on a bloody battlefield during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. But, at one time, Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont were just two men who ...