In the weeks leading up to his hanging for high treason 121 years ago today, Louis Riel struck up a friendship with his jailer. This week, a poem the Métis leader wrote for Robert Gordon becomes a ...

WINNIPEG -- Louis Riel's final four poems written in his jail cell before he was hanged as a traitor in 1885 are going back to his birthplace. The Manitoba Metis Federation said Wednesday they are ...

WINNIPEG – While awaiting the hangman’s noose for high treason, Métis leader Louis Riel borrowed a pen and paper in jail and wrote several short poems about his religious and political convictions.

Handwritten poems by the late Métis leader Louis Riel are coming home to Manitoba. The Manitoba Métis Federation will return the four poems — given to a jail guard before Riel's 1885 execution in ...

WINNIPEG–In jail, awaiting the hangman’s noose for high treason, Metis leader Louis Riel borrowed a pen and paper and wrote several short poems about his religious and political convictions. More than ...

A poem the famous Métis leader Louis Riel wrote for his jail guard two weeks before he was executed has been returned home to Saskatchewan. The original manuscript was unveiledat the University of ...