Never-before-seen writings by Louis Riel displayed at a Calgary exhibition provide a glimpse into the father of Manitoba’s personal life during years of exile at the centre of two historic Métis rebellions he led in western Canada.
Devotion: Louis Riel Writes Home, which runs at the University of Calgary’s Nickle Galleries until Sept. 1, includes two of the Métis leader’s notebooks and about 37 letters between him and close family.
About 15 of those letters were written by Riel between 1874 to 1884, a period that he spent suffering in voluntary and official exile from Manitoba for his role in the Red River Resistance, which ended
