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Construction end. 2004. Location. Esplanade Riel is a pedestrian bridge located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was named in honour of Louis Riel. [3] It is a side-spar cable-stayed bridge which spans the Red River connecting downtown Winnipeg and The Forks historic area with St. Boniface; it is paired with a vehicular bridge, the Provencher Bridge.
Riel House. / 49.81917°N 97.13611°W / 49.81917; -97.13611. Riel House is a National Historic Site commemorating the life of the Métis politician and activist Louis Riel, and also the daily life of Métis families in the Red River Settlement. The house is situated in the historic St. Vital parish of Winnipeg, in Manitoba, Canada.
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Maria Anna Hénault. m. June 1872. Children. Lucien Dubuc. Profession. lawyer. [1] [2] Sir Joseph Dubuc (26 December 1840 – 7 January 1914), was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge who was born in Lower Canada and became an important political figure from Manitoba .
Since the late 1960s, the nunnery has been administered by first, the city of Saint-Boniface, then the City of Winnipeg after the amalgamation of 1971. The convent building was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1958. The museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to Louis Riel. On display are locks of his hair, his revolver, his ...
The Provencher Bridge ( French: Pont Provencher) is a set of paired bridges — a four-lane vehicular bridge and a suspended pedestrian bridge (called Esplanade Riel) [1] [2] — across the Red River in Winnipeg, Manitoba . The bridge links downtown Winnipeg and The Forks historic area with St. Boniface, a Winnipeg community across the Red River.
Flanagan became the coordinator for a multi-year Louis Riel Project. In 1979 he published Louis "David" Riel: Prophet of the New World. In 1983 he published Riel and the Rebellion. In 1985 he co-edited The Collected Writings of Louis Riel/Les Ecrits complet de Louis Riel Tom Flanagan's research on Louis Riel situated him at the apex of debates ...
Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal GCMG GCVO PC DL FRS (6 August 1820 – 21 January 1914), known as Sir Donald A. Smith between May 1886 and August 1897, was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman who became one of the British Empire 's foremost builders and philanthropists. He became commissioner, governor and ...