Nault ancestor shares his family’s history
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Derrick Nault has become a valuable resource for the St. Vital Historical Society.
To date, he has provided copies of documents containing first-hand reports of the arrest of Andre Nault, and of a sheriff’s officer who had a chance meeting with Louis Riel, who was riding south to the U.S.A.
It was Riel’s stoppage of Canadian surveyors on Nault’s haying privilege in that began Manitoba’s march to becoming a province.
So, who is Derrick Nault?
“Andre Nault, cousin to Louis Riel and descendant, like Riel, of the explorer Jean-Baptiste Lagimodiere, is my great-great grandfather,” Nault wrote in an email. “Marie-Anne Gaboury (the “Mother of Red River”) is my great-great grandmother. Andre’s son, Alexandre Nault, is my great grandfather. Alexandre was married to Mathilde Carriere, a daughter of Damase Carriere (a Métis martyr at Batoche) and Marie-Pelagie Parenteau (a niece of Gabriel Dumont).
“So Damase was
NAULT, ANDRÉ, buffalo hunter, farmer, and captain of the Métis; b. 20 April in Point Douglas (Winnipeg), son of Amable Nault and Josette (Josephite, Josephte) Lagimodière, known as La Cyprès; grandson of Jean-Baptiste Lagimonière* and Marie-Anne Gaboury*; m. 11 Jan. Anastasie Landry, and they had 14 children; d. 17 Dec. in St Vital, Man.
Although André Nault’s parents were of French Canadian origin, they had become integrated into the Métis community of the Red River settlement (Man.). As a young man, Nault accompanied his father on buffalo hunts to the Missouri plateau, excelling as a horseman and hunter. He obtained river lot 12 in St Vital and farmed there. On 17 May , at age 19, he supported the Métis drive for free trade at the famous trial of Pierre-Guillaume Sayer* by marching “with a rifle at his shoulder.” Judge and historian Louis-Arthur Prud’homme* states that this episode was his apprenticeship as a “defender of the rights and liberties of the country’s population.”
The first event of the Métis resistance of to the transfer of Rupert’s Land to the Canadian government was the stopping of the surveyors on 11&nb
Memorable Manitobans: André Nault ()
André Nault |
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Born at Point Douglas on 20 April , son of Annable Nault and Josepha Lagimodiere (daughter of J. B. Lagimodiere), although not a Métis he commanded the Métis who captured Upper Fort Garry in , and also commanded the firing squad for Thomas Scott. He escaped to the United States and returned to Manitoba in Arrested for the murder of Scott, he was released after a trial in resulted in a hung jury. He died at his home in Fort Garry on 17 December and was buried in the Fort Garry Roman Catholic Cemetery. He was survived by two daughters and six sons, including Napoleon Nault. There are scattered but extensive papers at the Archives of Manitoba.
Sources:
“Andre Nault is dead; Fort Garry mourns,” Winnipeg Tribune, 18 December , page 1. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B8]
“Andre Nault, aged pioneer, buried today,” Winnipeg Tribune, 20 December , page 1.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press,
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manit
Manitoba History: Louis Riel’s Land Claims
by Thomas Flanagan
University of Calgary
Number 21, Spring
Louis Riel
Source: Archives of Manitoba
Is there anything left to be said about Louis Riel? George Stanley’s political biography still stands up well after almost thirty years. [1] Gilles Martel and Thomas Flanagan have illuminated Riel’s interpretation of himself as a divinely inspired prophet [2] and the same authors, together, with Glen Campbell, have made Riel’s poetry accessible. [3] Indeed, all of Riel’s writings have now been published, [4] and the centennial observance of brought a spate of books on the North-West Rebellion. [5] So much research has been done about Riel that historians now find it necessary to indulge in that navel-gazing exercise known as “the review of the literature.” [6]
One question about Riel’s life that remains unexplored is how he made a living. Even politicians, prophets, and poets have to eat and put bread on the table for their families. Riel read law briefly with Rodolphe Laflamme in Montreal in the spring of ; he worked, perhaps in a store, in St. Paul, Minnesota, during the year
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