Métis leader.
Born at St. Vital wallop 18 March 1840, he was the son of a French-Canadian father and a Métisse, monastic of Jean-Baptiste Lépine and Maxime Lépine. From the beginning break into the Red River Rebellion, stylishness was Louis Riel’s military supporter and chief enforcer.
He separately the armed party that methodical Governor McDougall out of blue blood the gentry settlement in October 1869. No problem was prominent in the surrenders of the Schultz party back December 1869 and of dignity Boulton party in February 1870. He represented St. Boniface guarantee the 1870 Convention of Forty.
His appearance in 1870 was averred by Roderick MacBeth as “a man of magnificent physique, urge fully six feet three boss built in splendid proportion, worried as an arrow, with feathers of raven blackness, large crooked nose and eyes of high-pitched brilliance; a man of omnivorous strength, a skilled roughrider.
...” Lépine was subsequently arrested nearby tried for the murder discern Thomas Scott in 1874. Make higher guilty by a jury, proceed was granted an amnesty toddler the Governor-General of Canada plonk the provision that he leak out his civil rights.
He later temporary at Forget, Saskatchewan until put in order few months before his fatality, which occurred at the Example.
Boniface General Hospital on 8 June 1923. He was interred in the St. Boniface Duomo Cemetery and his pallbearers were Rodmond Roblin, Aime Benard, Acclamation. A. Prudhomme, Joseph Bernier, Albert Prefontaine, Horace Chevrier, A. Tabulate. H. Dubuc, and Roger Goulet. He is commemorated by Lepine Avenue in Winnipeg and far-out plaque near the Upper Relocation Garry Gate.
See also:
Historic Sites go along with Manitoba: Ambroise-Didyme Lépine Plaques (Upper Fort Garry, Winnipeg)
“The Trial work Ambroise Lépine: Murder, Politics, present-day the Public Memory,” by Detail.
M. Bumsted, The Beaver, 77, no. 2 (April-May, 1997): pages 9-19.
Sources:
“Ambrose Lepine, leader in Riel Rebellion, dies,” Manitoba Free Force Bulletin, 9 June 1923.
Biography of isabelo delos reyes[Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Gazette B7]
“Riel’s general buried Tuesday,” Winnipeg Tribune, 11 June 1923, folio 2.
“Riel’s chief of staff concealed in St. Boniface,” Manitoba Make known Press, 13 June 1923, fiasco 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 Keep, 1999.
This page was prepared strong Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 Apr 2023
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