Louis Riel Sr.

He joined the fur trade with the Hudson's Bay Company in 1838 and was stationed at Rainy River, Ontario, where he fathered a daughter named Marguerite in 1840.

He left the HBC in 1842 and returned to Quebec with the intention of joining the priesthood at the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Saint-Hilaire, but withdrew a year later.

[1] Finally, in 1857, Riel attempted to establish a textile industry in the settlement, but the venture failed.

This trial was a defining moment in the fall of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade at Red River.

When Louis Riel Sr. died January 21, 1864, his death was mourned by the entire settlement.