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Court house at Regina where Louis Riel was tried. Corner of Scarth St. and Victoria Ave. Engraving from "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper", 28 November 1885.
"Indignation of French-Canadians over the execution of Louis Riel - a mob burning an effigy of Sir John Macdonald…. Montreal, November 16th." Engraving from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
Item is a photocopy of a map showing the railways, trails, and telegraph lines used in the Riel Rebellion of 1885 for the districts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Keewatin, Assiniboia, and Manitoba, along with parts of Montana and North Dakota. Along top edge of sheet are illustrations of: Qu'Appelle Valley; Sir John A. MacDonald; and Medicine Hat (showing bridge crossing over South Saskatchewan River); along bottom edge of sheet are illustrations of: Kopiassiswean (alternately known as Koriassiswean or Bird Skin) based on photograph taken near Calgary in 1884; Major General Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton; crossed rifles with bayonets; "Savage Indian Warfare" - a depiction of a First Nations' warrior standing over a prone figure with a raised arm; Louis Riel; crossed tomahawk and Indian pipe; and Ne-Raip-A-Shaw.
Original and typed copies of 67 letters written by Edwin Jackson Brooks to his wife, Helena (Nellie) Oughtred Brooks, concerning his trip west from Lennoxville, Quebec, and his settlement at Indian Head, 1882-1884; scrapbook of newspaper clippings from The Montreal Weekly Witness and Manitoba Free Press regarding the North-West Rebellion and trial of Louis Riel; and special editions of The Daily Leader, Regina, dating from July 21 to August 1885, (incomplete) containing reports on trial of Riel and others.