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This was my post on other social media for #louisrielday

I'm proud to be a #redrivermetis woman today, and everyday.

#LouisRiel #Metis #RedRiver #manitoba #winnipeg #indigenous #riel #ikwe #mbhistory #canadahistory #fatherofmanitoba

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The quote featured here was said by Riel shortly before his execution, when a guard asked for a souvenir.

This was my post on other social media for #louisrielday

I'm proud to be a #redrivermetis woman today, and everyday.

#LouisRiel #Metis #RedRiver #manitoba #winnipeg #indigenous #riel #ikwe #mbhistory #canadahistory #fatherofmanitoba #michif

Note:
The quote featured here was said by Riel shortly before his execution, when a guard asked for a souvenir.

This was my post on other social media for #louisrielday

I'm proud to be a #redrivermetis woman today, and everyday.

#LouisRiel #Metis #RedRiver #manitoba #winnipeg #indigenous #riel #ikwe #mbhistory #canadahistory #fatherofmanitoba #michif

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1849:
"Came up with Messrs Rowand and Harriott at Robinson's Porage, which is computed to be about 3/4 of a mile in length.We left the portage at half past twelve and about an hour afterwards were across the Mountain Portage #HayesRiver
"Saturday. Overtook Peter Calder this morning with his brigade at [blank] Portage. After breakfast we came up with the Lac La Pluie #RainyLake Brigade and before 4 pm overtook the Oxford House boat.... #MBHistory #HistoricJourney

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1835:
"From Cedar Lake to this place [Cumberland House] the country is low, full of small lakes and arms of the main river, and during the spring floods must be, from its trifling elevation, entirely or in great measure inundated. The driest and most elevated portions of those low grounds are covered with willows and the most parts with reeds, long grass and rushes. One or two high points in the river are covered by pines.... #MBHistory #SaskatchewanRiver #Books

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: :Landmarks on the Echimamish River," #MB #MBHistory It is only by reading the journals of English explorers, who followed the paths the HBC men travelled, that you discover what these places were like. We begin here with "The Painted Stone Portage," which all of us who study #Canadian and #FurTrade #History understand is a major landmark on the old HBC route -- so here is Sir John Franklin's experience in 1819. #History http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/landmarks-on-the-echimamish-river/ Or follow my blog for more.