Louis Schmidt was born on December 4, 1844 at Old Fort, near

Fort Chipewyan Fort Chipewyan , commonly referred to as Fort Chip, is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada, within the Regional Municipality (RM) of Wood Buffalo. It is located on the western tip of Lake Athabasca, adjacent to Wood Buffalo National Park, app ...

and was baptised at Portage La Loche by Father Jean-Baptiste Thibault in July 1845. He died in

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near Batoche November 6, 1935. In 1869 he was Secretary to the first

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organized in the

Red River Colony The Red River Colony (or Selkirk Settlement), also known as Assinboia, was a colonization project set up in 1811 by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, on of land in British North America. This land was granted to Douglas by the Hudson's Bay ...

. Louis Schmidt sat as an elected member of the

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for Saint Boniface West in 1870-1874 and again in 1878–1879. He was the grandson of Alexis Bonami and a classmate of

Louis Riel Louis Riel (; ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of Canada and its first ...

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Métis politicians People of the Red River Rebellion Canadian Métis people 1844 births 1935 deaths People from the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo Members of the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia Members of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba Canadian Roman Catholics Pre-Confederation Alberta people {{Manitoba-politician-stub

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