Riel Louis - Louis Riel firebrand

Louis Riel, 18441885

Sharon Stewart

Sharon Stewart has written seven books for young readers: The Minstrel Boy (1997), The Dark Tower (1998), Spiders Web (1998), My Anastasia (1999), City of the Dead (2001), Raven Quest (2003), and Banished from Our Home (2004). Several of her books have been translated into French and other languages. She has been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, and in 2005 her novel Raven Quest won the Ontario Library Associations Silver Birch Award.

Sharon Stewart is also a professional editor who works as a freelancer in educational publishing. She specializes in language arts and social studies. She studied history at Simon Fraser University, the University of London (England), and the University of Toronto, and has a Masters degree in French colonial history. She has taught English as a Foreign Language in Harbin, China. She is married to Roderick Stewart, the author of several books on Norman Bethune and of Wilfrid Laurier: A Pledge for Canada in the Quest Library. They currently live in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

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Louis Riel

SHARON STEWART

FIREBRAND

Copyright 2007 Sharon Stewart and XYZ diteur.

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Bibliothque et Archives nationales du Qubec and
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing In Publication

Stewart, Sharon (Sharon Roberta), 1944

Louis Riel: firebrand

(The quest library ; 31)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-894852-26-5

1. Riel, Louis, 18441885. 2. Riel Rebellion, 1885. 3. Red River Rebellion, 18691870. 4. Mtis - Prairie Provinces - Biography. I. Title. II. Series: Quest library ; 31.

FC3217.1.R53S73 2007 971.051092 C2007-940826-5

Legal Deposit: Second quarter 2007

Library and Archives Canada

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XYZ Publishing acknowledges the support of The Quest Library project by the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) of the Department of Canadian Heritage. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the Government of Canada.

The publishers further acknowledge the financial support our publishing program receives from The Canada Council for the Arts, the ministre de la Culture et des Communications du Qubec, and the Socit de dveloppement des entreprises culturelles.

Chronology: Rhonda Bailey

Index: Darcy Dunton

Layout:discript enr.

Cover design: Zirval Design

Cover illustration: Magali Lefranois

Photo research: Sharon Stewart and Rhonda Bailey

Printed and bound in Canada by Lebonfon
(Val-dor, Qubec, Canada) in May 2007.

International Rights: Contact Andr Vanasse, tel. (514) 525-2170 # 25

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To Roderick, for all the reasons.

Contents

Chronology of
Louis Riel (1844-1885)

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Dr. Philippe Mailhot of the St. Boniface Museum for reading this manuscript and for his help with the howlers. Any errors remaining are the responsibility of the author.

A Mtis rider, dashing and bold.
He is guiding a Red River cart train.