| Children of the Métis leader and central figure of the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, Jean-Louis and Marie-Angélique were born while their father lived in exile in Montana, far from the Canadian authorities. Following Riel's execution for high treason in 1885, Marie-Angélique went to live with an uncle in Winnipeg, where she died of tuberculosis in 1896. Her brother Jean-Louis took his mother's family name (Monet) and with the financial help of Montréal lawyer Alfred Pelland, studied at l'École normale Jacques-Cartier. He worked for the Quebec Department of Mines and Colonization until 1907. Albumen print
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