[1] Lépine lived in St. François Xavier in the 1870s and managed a Red River cart freighting company which transported goods west to Fort Carlton and Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, and south to Pembina, North Dakota, and St. Paul, Minnesota.
[4] At the time, Rupert's Land was under the control of the Hudson's Bay Company and was made up of territory that today is known as the Prairie provinces.
[4] Following the creation of Manitoba as a province, Maxime Lépine was able to escape the hands Ontario Orangemen and went on to become a founding member of the Union Saint-Alexandre, which was created to bring together Métis of French-Canadian and Catholic origin.
Maxime Lépine fought at the Battle of Fish Creek and surrendered to General Frederick Dobson Middleton after the defeat at Batoche.
He was convicted of high treason and sent to Stony Mountain Penitentiary in August 1885, he was released in 1886 having serving about seven months of his seven-year sentence.