Place Louis Riel

... ? Well, the follow-up to that they didn't show was that she probably did a sculpture too. A bizarre, naked 30ft statue of Louis Riel (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Burns) is now housed at the college in St Boniface. Formerly given pride of place at ...

... in the restaurant to visit the french quarter of town which boasts the St. Boniface Cathedral, the oldest building in Winnipeg and Louis Riel grave.  We took the bus over which was only $2.75 and arrived close to the cathedral but along the way we noticed ...

... there. I also checked out Riel House which is now oddly situated in a fairly affluent subdivision in the southern part of town. Louis Riel did not live here but his family did. After his execution his body laid in state within the house. The house is ...

... !  Next was a quick walk around the St. Boniface Parliament Building and then on to the St. Boniface Cathedral where Louis Riel is buried.  The Cathedral burnt down in the 60s and only the stone face remains.  A modern structure has ...

... of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. Our driver took us up river to the Legislature Buildings, where he told the story of Louis Riel, a famous Metis (half Aboriginal, half French) leader who was hung as a traitor for leading an 1885 rebellion but ...