3 – Elzéar Goulet

Sources

The New Nation (available through U of M digital collections)

Begg, Alexander. The Creation of Manitoba. Toronto: Hunter, Rose & Co., 1871.

Boulton, Major Charles. Reminiscences of the North-West Rebellions. Toronto: Grip Printing and Publishing, 1886.

Boyden, Joseph. Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont. Penguin: 2010.

Elliott and Brokovski (compiled by). Preliminary Trial and Investigation of Ambroise Lepine for the Murder of Thomas Scott. Canadian Press, 1874.

Marchildon, Jérôme. “The Story of Elzear Goulet.” Manitoba History 65, Winter 2011.

Riel, Louis. Poésies réligieuses et politiques. Manitoba: Les Éditions des plains, 1979. (reprint of 1886 edition)

Ronaghan, Neil Edgar Allen. The Archibald Administration in Manitoba – 1870-1872 (PhD Thesis). University of Manitoba, 1987.

Teillet, Jean. The North-West is Our Mother. Toronto: Harper Collins, 2019.

Young, George. Manitoba Memories: Leaves from my life in the prairie province, 1869-1884. Toronto: William Briggs, 1897

Norma Jean Hall’s incredible website on the Resistance, which unfortunately is only available these days through Web Archive

A number of primary sources on the resistance not already included above are listed and made available here

In episode 3 of our One Great 150 series, we cover the Red River Resistance by following the path of Elzéar Goulet, a mail carrier who became a leader in Louis Riel’s Métis armed forces and, ultimately, was one of six men who decided the fate of Thomas Scott. Though Goulet was a player in many of the key moments of the resistance, the most lasting impact of his story may have been the tragedies that followed in the wake of his death.

Thank you to Jean Teillet, author of The North-West is Our Mother, for her help in this episode. Her full interview can be found on our Patreon page.

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