This Thursday and Saturday (the 9th and 11th) will see the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s production of Afghanistan: Requiem for a Generation being performed for the first time in Toronto. Created and written by Riel: Heart of the North’s librettist and...
See page 9 for the recently published poem by Louis Riel, ‘Composition de Riel’. On the anniversary of Riel’s death, November 16, the City of Edmonton will light the High Level Bridge in blue and white, our colours, in honour of Métis week in...
150 years ago, the Canada we are so familiar with was a very different place. The border between the United States and Canada had been established in 1818, but to many of the people living on both sides of the border, either to the north, in Rupert’s Land, or...
Riel: Heart of the North is a project that aims to explore a little-known chapter in Louis Riel’s life and focuses on the beauty and love of the homeland and of its people, the heart of the north. This project is still in its infancy so more content will be posted in...
It is a great honour to be invited to the inaugural DeLloyd J. Guth Visiting Lecture in Legal History for Robson Hall. In light of the lecture’s focus on legal history, and in this place where he was born, I would like to speak about Louis Riel, his actions, his trial...
This is an official announcement in time for Aboriginal Day, June 21! The poet, SMSteele (Métis family Gaudry), and composer Neil Weisensel have just received one of the Canada Council New Chapter’s grants to write Louis Riel: Heart of the North. A dramatic musical...
