• CBC Digital Archives: Rethinking Riel
From CBC Archives this collection of 11 television clips and 9 audio radio clips focus on tracing the changing perceptions of the Métis leader who commanded two rebellions in Western Canada and was tried, convicted and hanged for treason in 1885. Well into the 20th century Riel was regarded as "misguided and impetuous" at best and a psychotic traitor at worst. But in the 1960s Riel's image began to turn around, and today many Canadians have reclaimed him as a heroic patriot, founder of Manitoba, and a Father of Confederation.
• Famous Trials: Louis Riel Trial 1885
The Trial of Louis Riel is one of many famous international trials included in Douglas O. Linder’s comprehensive University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law website. Included on this website is a Chronology of Events, Maps, Images, a Biography of Louis Riel, Excerpts from Chester Brown’s Biography of Louis Riel comic strip, Riel’s Diary Entries and Letters, the Treason Act and six Counts, excerpts from the Trial Transcript, Riel’s Trial Statement and Renunciation, Appeals and US Senate Investigation, and an Act to Revoke Riel’s Conviction.
• Louis Riel Photo Gallery
This site has four online portraits of Louis Riel from 1858-1886 provided by the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections.
• Northwest Rebellion Photograph Gallery
This site has six original photographs from the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections.
• The Northwest Resistance: A Database of Materials
This website was created to improve access to materials relating to the Northwest Resistance of 1885 held by the Special Collections Department of the University of Saskatchewan Libraries and the University of Saskatchewan Archives. It contains a searchable database of bibliographic records and a number of digitized photographs and transcribed HTML documents.
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