The Louis Riel sculpture is a monument to Louis Riel located on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg. Commissioned by the Manitoba Metis Federation (MMF) and sculpted by Miguel Joyal, the statue is located on the building's south grounds and faces the Assiniboine River.[1]
Standing at 3.5 metres (11 ft) tall, the statue depicts Riel dressed in a 19th-century shirt, overcoat, trousers, and moccasins.[2] Riel is shown standing with clenched fists, with his left hand holding a parchment to represent the Manitoba Act.[3]
The cost for the statue was estimated to be $200,000, and was to be shared equally between the MMF and the Province of Manitoba. In 1994, the MMF failed to raise the necessary amount, and the federal government contributed $15,000.[2]
^"Province of Manitoba | Archived News Releases". Province of Manitoba. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
^ ab"Mnemographia Canadensis - Essay 16 - Controversy in the Commemoration of Louis Riel". canadianpoetry.org. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
^BRUYNEEL, KEVIN (2010). "Exiled, Executed, Exalted: Louis Riel, "Homo Sacer" and the Production of Canadian Sovereignty". Canadian Journal of Political Science. 43 (3): 711–732. doi:10.1017/S0008423910000612. ISSN 0008-4239. JSTOR 40983515. S2CID 154627246.
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