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Compte rendu d'une assemblée des citoyens de la Pointe-Coupée et réponse de Riel
- Fonds / Collection
- Louis Riel
- Description Level
- Document
- Document Type
- documents textuels
- Date
- février 1872
- Scope and Content
- Document de la main de Louis Riel.
- Date
- février 1872
- Document Type
- documents textuels
- Fonds / Collection
- Louis Riel
- Description Level
- Document
- Fonds No.
- 0003
- Reference No.
- 0003/1093/R591
- Creator
- Louis Riel
- Signatory
- Louis Riel
- Physical Description
- 2 f. de documents textuels
- Scope and Content
- Document de la main de Louis Riel.
- Notes
- Voir The Collected Writings of Louis Riel/Les écrits complets de Louis Riel, George Stanley ed. tome I, p. 175
- Scope and Content (English)
- 1. Meeting of citizens of Pointe Coupee demanded fulfilment of guarantees made in May, 1870.
- 2. Protest the means Ontario uses to revive the troubles that Ontario alone occasioned in 1869-70.
- 3. Oppose Riel and his friends leaving the country.
- 4. Baptiste Touron and Baptiste Lepine delegated to meet other delegates at St. Boniface to form a committee to transmit resolutions to the Lieutenant-Governor. Citizens of Baie St. Paul, St. Francois Xavier, Pointe de Chenes, St. Vital, St. Germain, Pointe a Grouette will send same resolutions; Riel, Lepine were sent for to come to the committee; Riel said - Ontario has persecuted Lepine and myself and the Government betrayed us for two years; we yield to your plans or we find ourselves in opposition to men I respect and whom the country needs more than us; I will not separate from you; our absence is the prime public need at the moment.
- Name Access
- Louis Riel
- Geographic Access
- Pointe-Coupée
- Storage Location
- PAM MG3 D1, 591
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