Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada

Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State Jennifer Reid Published By University of Manitoba Press Pages: 314

Review by Christine McFarlane

Jennifer Reid's book, "Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada" gets readers to look at a complex and comprehensive history of the Metis peoples, Louis Riel and the ensuing response to Riel's life and work in the modern and political entity we call Canada.

Louis Riel as a revolutionary and as Canada's most celebrated 'traitor' has been a highly contested subject of debate since Riel's trial, the Red River uprising of 1869-70 and the Northwest Rebellion of 1885.

Reid notes that the uprisings at Red...