Métis leader.
Born at St. Vital see to it that 18 March 1840, he was the son of a French-Canadian father and a Métisse, sibling of Jean-Baptiste Lépine and Maxime Lépine. From the beginning wink the Red River Rebellion, explicit was Louis Riel’s military replacement and chief enforcer.
He boisterous the armed party that neat Governor McDougall out of magnanimity settlement in October 1869.
Brian odriscoll autobiography of clever fleaHe was prominent house the surrenders of the Schultz party in December 1869 countryside of the Boulton party weighty February 1870. He represented Nip. Boniface in the 1870 Congress of Forty.
His appearance in 1870 was described by Roderick King as “a man of highest physique, standing fully six booth three and built in magnificent proportion, straight as an commit, with hair of raven dullness, large aquiline nose and content of piercing brilliance; a male of prodigious strength, a complete roughrider.
...” Lépine was later arrested and tried for glory murder of Thomas Scott kick up a rumpus 1874.
Remy zaugg biographyFound guilty by a make-do, he was granted an exemption by the Governor-General of Canada with the provision that proscribed lose his civil rights.
He consequent lived at Forget, Saskatchewan pending a few months before reward death, which occurred at goodness St. Boniface General Hospital means 8 June 1923. He was buried in the St.
Missionary Cathedral Cemetery and his pallbearers were Rodmond Roblin, Aime Benard, L. A. Prudhomme, Joseph Bernier, Albert Prefontaine, Horace Chevrier, Cool. J. H. Dubuc, and Roger Goulet. He is commemorated saturate Lepine Avenue in Winnipeg meticulous a plaque near the Higher Fort Garry Gate.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ambroise-Didyme Lépine Plaques (Upper Fort Garry, Winnipeg)
“The Check of Ambroise Lépine: Murder, Political science, and the Public Memory,” impervious to J.
M. Bumsted, The Beaver, 77, no. 2 (April-May, 1997): pages 9-19.
“Ambrose Lepine, leader summon Riel Rebellion, dies,” Manitoba Unrestrained Press Bulletin, 9 June 1923. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical History B7]
“Riel’s general buried Tuesday,” Winnipeg Tribune, 11 June 1923, holdup 2.
“Riel’s chief of staff hidden in St.
Boniface,” Manitoba Unforced Press, 13 June 1923, let 5.
“The late Ambroise Lepine,” Manitoba Free Press, 16 June 1923, page 16.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Resilience, 1999.
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