Riel's Trial starts!

The Trial of Louis Riel remains the most controversial in Canadian history. Riel historian and Louis Riel activist David Doyle (Honore Jaxon II) presents a review of Riel's trial and the incarceration of William Henry Jackson, the Editor of the Voice of the People newspaper and the Secretary of the Farmers and Settlers Union. Mr. Jackson, who acted as Riel's private secretary at the time of the Northwest Resistance, was sent to the Insane Asylum in Winnipeg prior to Riel's trial. Mr. Jackson's evidence was of great concern to Canadian Authorities as he had been involved in constitutional agitation prior to Canadian Prime Minister declaring war on the Provisional Government of the Saskatchewan, 1885.