17 Replies to “Parks Canada Celebrates A Settler Scalper”

  1. The day will soon come when David Ahenakew’s Order of Canada will be returned to him posthumously with groveling apologies.

  3. but but but its the VOTERS that DEMAND liberalism throughout the land.
    even as far back as the 1700s.

    1. The shit started when they dropped liberalism and demanded Liberalism. All Parties give them what they ask for.

  4. nova scotian and newfies demand liberalism , just back from a trip thru both provinces. took a tour of st johns and a former mayor was the guide. thought he was an okay guide till he mentioned he was buddies with Nenshi. I expressed my disgust with Nenshi being a dipper now. He said newfoundland had 6 liberal MPs, I said to your own peril, theres a sea change in Canada and the tide is washing out the left.

  5. nova scotian and newfies demand liberalism , just back from a trip thru both provinces. took a tour of st johns and a former mayor was the guide. thought he was an okay guide till he mentioned he was buddies with Nenshi. I expressed my disgust with Nenshi being a dipper now. He said newfoundland had 6 liberal MPs, I said to your own peril, theres a sea change in Canada and the tide is washing out the left. He didnt like my opinion of PEI and its overload of paid off liberals seats.

  6. Does parks Canada even have any qualified historians on staff? Doesn’t look like it from here. But it does have grievance and entitlement whores by the dozen…

  7. Scalping was a widespread practice by the North American Indian. It wasn’t unique to them as there is some evidence that it occurred in the old world. Both the Fwench and the Brits paid bounties for scalps in the early days. It’s not something to be particularly proud of.

      1. Riel was charged with treason by a Canadian court, not by John A. Convicted of treason (which was undoubtedly true) and sentenced by a Canadian court. Louis Riel was a kidnapper and a 1st degree murderer, who put a pistol to Thomas Scott’s head and then summarily executed him. Took the law into his own hands. Then he went on the lam in the US after starting armed rebellion in 1885, taking money from US interests obsessed with the promise of Manifest Destiny and Americans taking over all of Canada. Riel was a scoundrel and an extremist who was guilty as charged. A CBC link? …..is this your idea of honesty and the truth? LOL. Perhaps you could reference a credible source?

        PS – You don’t know anything about the law. You’re Just peddling the usual silly, revisionist, left-wing nonsense. Maybe get a life and stop pretending you’re some sort of victim.

        1. Trials in connection with the North-west rebellion, 1885 ..
          by Canada. Dept. of the Secretary of State

          Publication date 1886
          Topics Riel Rebellion, 1885
          Publisher Ottawa, Printed by Maclean, Roger & Co.
          Collection europeanlibraries
          Book from the collections of Oxford University
          Language English

          Free Download

          https://archive.org/details/trialsinconnect00statgoog

          Nice try but you failed…

          Prime Minister John A. Macdonald decided to charge Riel with high treason, based on an obscure British law dating to the year 1342. This law carried the death the penalty whereas Canadas treason law did not.

          1. By the standard of the day Riel could probably have walked as he was not of sound mind. A lot of innocent people were killed because of what he did.

          3. Canada never had its own Criminal Code until the early 1890’s, well after the Riel Rebellion occurred. (Mostly written by Attorney-General John Thompson before he became Prime Minister) So British law was applicable in Canada. Nice try yourself. 🙂

        2. Riel of course was not hanged for anything he did in Manitoba. Not just because he’d received a full amnesty, but because everything he’d done had been lawful. The gory tales of the death of Thomas Scott are amongst the finest gothic fiction ever produced in this country, but they’re pure fiction.

          There’s no question at all that he was properly convicted of treason. Criticism of his trial or his mental state is a confession of ignorance. Whether it was just to hang Riel is an open question; it’s hard to see what further harm he could have done if they’d let him live, and he might have done great good. All his fellow traitors were show mercy and no one regretted it. They often question whether it was politically wise to hang Riel, but I say who cares. The point is, he did deserve to hang.

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