Mounties in the News

Mounties in the News

LibriVox · Audiobook · 56 episodes

A newspaper account of the activities in the Western Canada during the Riel Rebellion and some of the aftermath , articles dating from August 1880 to January 1895. (Summary by David Lawrence) Readers for this project are David Lawrence and Esther.

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Episodes

August 12, 1880 - The Indians of the North West

Episode 1 · 2:01
March 26, 1885 - Louis Riel's Rebellion

Episode 2 · 8:54
March 28, 1885 - Victory for the Rebels

Episode 3 · 9:43
April 20, 1885 - Reils Scouts Captured

Episode 4 · 7:04
May 1, 1885 - Half Breeds Join Riel

Episode 5 · 2:12
May 3, 1885 Panic in Edmonton

Episode 6 · 6:27
May 6, 1885 - Defeated by the Indians

Episode 7 · 6:45
May 7, 1885 - The Northwest Rebellion

Episode 8 · 6:20
May 8, 1885 - Fighting Reil's Allies

Episode 9 · 10:55
May 14, 1885 - Reil Deserts His Men

Episode 10 · 4:18
May 14, 1885 - Victory for Middleton

Episode 11 · 8:25
May 16, 1885 - The Battle at Batoche

Episode 12 · 12:46
May 17, 1885 - Louis Reil Captured

Episode 13 · 9:22
May 25, 1885 - The War in the Northwest

Episode 14 · 2:43
May 28, 1885 - Poundmaker a Prisoner

Episode 15 · 9:36
May 29, 1885 - Riel's Lieutenant Captured

Episode 16 · 5:32
June 1, 1885 - Big Bear Wins a Battle

Episode 17 · 6:53
June 3, 1885 - Riel's True Character

Episode 18 · 7:33
June 6, 1885 - No News From Middleton

Episode 19 · 4:39
July 6, 1885 - Big Bear Prisoner

Episode 20 · 1:25
July 19, 1885 - Notes From the Northwest

Episode 21 · 1:23
July 22, 1885 - Louis Riel on Trial

Episode 22 · 2:58
July 26, 1885 - In Pursuit of Northwest Indians

Episode 23 · 48s
August 2, 1885 - Massacred by Indians

Episode 24 · 1:39
August 17, 1885 - Taming the Bronco

Episode 25 · 6:32
October 27, 1885 - Efforts to Save Reil

Episode 26 · 2:20
November 13, 1885 - What Might Result in Reil's Execution

Episode 27 · 5:09
November 15, 1885 - Reil to be hanged

Episode 28 · 10:06
November 16, 1885 - Canadians in a Ferment

Episode 29 · 14:23
November 17, 1885 - Rebel Chief Hanged

Episode 30 · 12:49
November 17, 1885 - French Canadians Excited

Episode 31 · 7:36
November 28, 1885 - Eight Indians Hanged

Episode 32 · 10:07
January 20, 1886 - The Army of the Northwest

Episode 33 · 1:13
February 12, 1886 - Six Mounted Poliemen Killed

Episode 34 · 43s
October 5, 1886 - The Sacree Indians

Episode 35 · 52s
November 5, 1886 - Battleford on Fire short

Episode 36 · 44s
November 25, 1886 - The Sweet Grass Massacre

Episode 37 · 1:10
January 29, 1887 - Three Counterfeiters Killed

Episode 38 · 1:20
February 6, 1887 - Big Bear Set Free

Episode 39 · 56s
April 15, 1887 - Depredations by Indians

Episode 40 · 1:01
June 2, 1887 - Dumont Causing Trouble

Episode 41 · 1:14
June 10, 1887 - Stolen Horses Recovered

Episode 42 · 54s
August 13, 1887 - Cattle Run into Canada

Episode 43 · 39s
September 10, 1887 - Don't Like the Police

Episode 44 · 49s
March 12, 1888 - Half Breeds Starving

Episode 45 · 4:12
July 19, 1888 - The Troublesome Half-breed

Episode 46 · 1:37
September 6, 1888 - They Like the Warpath

Episode 47 · 53s
48 - November 7, 1888 Trouble on the Manitou Border

Episode 48 · 1:24
February 7, 1889 - Charged With Smuggling

Episode 49 · 1:00
May 21, 1889 - A Fight With Canadian Indians

Episode 50 · 1:31
August 3, 1889 - The Dominion Militia

Episode 51 · 48s
September 24, 1890 - Manitoba Mounted Police

Episode 52 · 1:34
November 23, 1890 - Canadian Indians Dancing

Episode 53 · 1:52
December 29, 1891 - The Herchmer Inquiry

Episode 54 · 3:04
January 4, 1892 - Serious Trouble at Edmonton

Episode 55 · 1:41
January 4, 1892 - Col Herchmer's Funeral

Episode 56 · 1:01