Louis Schmidt was born on December 4, 1844, at Old Fort, near Fort Chipewyan and was baptised at Portage La Loche by Father Jean-Baptiste Thibault in July 1845.

[1][2] He died in Saint Louis, Saskatchewan, near Batoche November 6, 1935.

In 1869 he was secretary to the first Provisional Government organized in the Red River Colony.

[1] Schmidt sat as an elected member of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly for Saint Boniface West in 1870–1874 and again in 1878–1879.

[1] He was the grandson of Alexis Bonami and a classmate of Louis Riel.