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Louis Riel «À la Nation Métisse et au peuple canadien français», Montréal
- Fonds / Collection
- Louis Riel
- Description Level
- Document
- Document Type
- documents textuels
- Date
- 20 avril 1875
- Date
- 20 avril 1875
- Document Type
- documents textuels
- Fonds / Collection
- Louis Riel
- Description Level
- Document
- Fonds No.
- 0003
- Reference No.
- 0003/1093/546
- Creator
- Riel, Louis
- Signatory
- Riel, Louis
- Physical Description
- 4 f. de documents textuels
- Language(s)
- Français
- Notes
- Copie numérisée sur le CD101.
- Scope and Content (English)
- The Metis nation made me its chief and retained me for three years; despite obstacles it elected me to represent Provencher; I thank it and its clergy; God will reward it for its fidelity; the cause grows; in 1869 they wished to extirpate us but it was necessary to give us guarantees; since the transfer we have been betrayed but the cause has extended to the Rocky Mountains; since 1873 they thought they could destroy the cause by arresting the leaders; they have persecuted me, declared me outside the law, expulsed me from Parliament; now the French Canadian people champion the cause; I ask the magnaminity of Quebec, its Archbishop and clergy; I thank the Nouveau Monde and the member for Hochelaga for defending our rights; I thank the Liberal party, despite the indifference of its leaders, for defending the cause of a complete amnesty when it was in opposition, and pleading in our favour since it came to power; I thank the Conservative party for defending us although its chiefs treated with us have let us be persecuted; the two parties of Lower Canada have been generous and each furnished a man devoted to the cause - Rodrique Masson and Dr. E. P. Lachapelle.
- Name Access
- Riel, Louis
- Geographic Access
- Montréal
- Storage Location
- PAM MG 3 D 1, 546
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