According to one account, sometime in the days that followed, Canadian soldiers stole the nine-kilogram silver bell as a trophy from the church at Batoche. It was on display in a legion hall in ...

Stolen from a Batoche church in 1885 by rampaging, thieving Orangemen and later displayed in a Legion pub as a war trophy. Re-stolen in 1991, along with three war medals, by two Métis activists ...

Researchers have unearthed a document trail that reveals what really happened to a historic Canadian artifact — the Bell of Batoche. That church was built by Rev. Jules Le Chevallier ...

The bell was seized from Batoche’s church as a trophy of war by federal troops who put down the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, crushing the dream of Metis leader Louis Riel to build an independent ...

“He saw the crack in the bell as a message of the schism that occurred between the M©tis people and the church after the (1885 battle in Batoche),” Savoie said. “He sees this as a ...

The 40-kilogram, silver-plated bell, about 30 cm tall, originally hung in a small white-clapboard mission church at Batoche, a small Métis settlement northeast of Saskatoon. However, in 1885 ...

When Cassidy Caron goes back to Batoche, she’s not just paying a visit in her role as president of the Métis National Council. Whether she is standing on stage amidst hundreds of dignitaries ...

SASKATOON – Visitors at the Batoche National Historic Site in Saskatchewan got a short opportunity to see the Bell of Batoche. The church bell, which made its public return to the province ...

The Batoche National Historic Site will be open ... will be open to the public and the guided tours through the historic church and Caron Home will still be offered. Physical distancing will ...

The Ontario bell, the producers said, was actually from a church in Alberta. The producers found records showing the real Bell of Batoche was donated to a small church in St. Laurent, north of Duck ...

Batoche, Saskatchewan ... “The Papal visit and anticipated apology for the Catholic Church’s role in the Residential School system will have different meanings for many people.