1862-1954+Christine+Dumas+Pilon

=Christine Dumas Pilon = By: Ivy Wu
 * **WHO ** || **WHEN ** || **WHAT ** || **WHERE ** || **WHY ** ||
 * Christine Dumas Pilon || __1862-1954 __ || - hardships, but she was resourceful à  wrote letters for relatives and neighbours

- proud of Canadian & Metis heritage à  account of trials during "Guerre Nationale" at Batoche, 1885 (North West Rebellion)

à defended actions of Metis leader, Louis Riel à  wrote letters to the gov't  à  ex. <  http://www.piloninternational.ca/international/ archives/christine/echristine.html>
 * - Leadership & Initiative** (stood up for her people)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- home burned by gov’t troops à <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> cold, starving after debacle (May 12); fled to woods

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- days later walked 18 mi. back to Batoche butchered calf and ate || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- arrived at Metis settlement of Batoche (1882 Spring) with husband, Barthelemi Pilon à <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> married in St. Boniface, Manitoba à <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> also with widowed mother, Henriette Landry

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- settled near family (brothers & sisters) at lot on South Saskatchewan River

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-died in house next door to daughter Adelaide (92 years old) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- she & husband lost EVERYTHING

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- **persistence** and **courage** à <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> new houses built, grew crops, acquired 2nd homestead

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- celebrated anniversary in 1932

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- **independent** woman à she continued to stand up/support for herself and others even in her late years ||

__**<span style="color: #278227; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Works Cited **__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Payment, Diane. "Christine Dumas Pilon." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Metis Culture & Heritage Resource Centre //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. Metis Culture & Heritage Resource Centre Inc., 2012. Web. 24 May 2012. <http:// www.metisresourcecentre.mb.ca/index.php?option=com_content>.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Testimony of the Last Days of Freedom of Louis Riel as Reported by Christine Dumas Pilon." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Pilon International //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. Association Des Pilon D'Amérique, 2012. Web. 24 May 2012. <http://www.piloninternational.ca/international/archives/christine/echristine.html>.

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