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Ambroise-Didyme Lépine

Ambroise-Didyme Lépine is a Manitoba Heritage Council commemoration in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Manitoba · Fort Garry Gate Park, Fort Street & Broadway, Winnipeg · location approximate

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Born in the Red River Settlement, Ambroise-Didyme Lépine engaged in river-lot agriculture, combining this with hunting and trading as did many other Métis. In the autumn of 1869 he became Adjutant General to Louis Riel and played a prominent role in the Red River Resistance. Lépine was a member of Riel's Provisional Government, and presided over the court martial which condemned prisoner Thomas Scott to be shot on 4 March 1870. Here, before the wall of Fort Garry, Scott was executed. Lépine was arrested, tried and was to be hanged on 29 January 1875. The sentence was subsequently commuted to two years imprisonment and forfeiture of political rights. Although he remained sympathetic to the Métis cause, Lépine withdrew from public life. His dictated recollections contributed to the publication of a history of Métis people.

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Ambroise-Didyme Lépine naquit dans la colonie de la rivière Rouge. Comme bien d'autres métis, il vivait d'agriculture riveraine, de chasse et de traite des fourrures. Il joua un rôle important dans la rébellion des métis organisée par Louis Riel dont il devint adjudant-major au cours de l'automne 1869. Comme membre du gouvernement provisoire de Riel, il présida la cour martiale qui condamna le prisonnier Thomas Scott à être fusillé le 4 mars 1870. C'est ici même, contre un mur de Fort Garry, qu'eut lieu l'exécution. Lépine fut arrêté, juge, et devait être pendu le 29 janvier 1875. Mais sa peine fut commuée en deux ans de prison avec perte des droits politiques. Il se retira alors de la vie publique, mais demeura attaché à la cause des métis. Il dicta des mémoires qui parurent dans une histoire des métis.

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Plaque text and location: Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques, Historic Resources Branch, Government of Manitoba, as the Branch publishes them on its plaque pages. The text is the Manitoba Heritage Council’s text as the Branch publishes it; the pin on this page is ours, worked out from the location the Branch gives and marked approximate. Contains information from the Government of Manitoba, licensed under the OpenMB Information and Data Use License (Manitoba.ca/OpenMB)
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