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          LÉPINE, AMBROISE-DYDIME, farmer, Métis leader, and politician; b....

          Ambroise-Dydime Lépine was a farmer, Métis leader, and politician.

        1. Posts about Ambroise Lépine written by Library and Archives Canada Blog.
        2. LÉPINE, AMBROISE-DYDIME, farmer, Métis leader, and politician; b.
        3. Ambroise-Dydime Lépine (18 March – 8 June ) was a military leader of the Métis under the command of Louis Riel during the Red River Rebellion of.
        4. Ambroise-Dydime Lépine was born on March 18 , in Saint Boniface, Winnipeg.

          5. Memorable Manitobans: Ambroise Didyme Lépine (1840-1923)

          Métis leader.

          Born at St. Vital on 18 March 1840, he was the son of a French-Canadian father and a Métisse, brother of Jean-Baptiste Lépine and Maxime Lépine.

          From the beginning of the Red River Rebellion, he was Louis Riel’s military lieutenant and chief enforcer. He led the armed party that ordered Governor McDougall out of the settlement in October 1869. He was prominent in the surrenders of the Schultz party in December 1869 and of the Boulton party in February 1870.

          He represented St. Boniface in the 1870 Convention of Forty.

          His appearance in 1870 was described by Roderick MacBeth as “a man of magnificent physique, standing fully six feet three and built in splendid proportion, straight as an arrow, with hair of raven blackness, large aquiline nose and eyes of piercing brilliance; a man of prodigious strength, a skilled roughrider.

          ...” Lépine was subsequentl