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Winnipeg Free Press: A guided tour of Riel’s North Dakota hideout

Jul 13, 2012

With his provisional government in disarray and Gen. Garnet Wolseley’s army in hot pursuit, Louis Riel fled Fort Garry, which became Winnipeg, to a fur-trading post in North Dakota run by his friend, Antoine Blanc Gingras. The trading post is a tourist site and has tour guides, yet the Canadian government has cut funding for tour guides at the Winnipeg family home of the man dubbed the Father of Manitoba.

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