Landmarks, Monuments & Built Heritage of the West
Riel House
The items inside Riel House not only give visitors a sense of the importance of Louis Riel to Manitoban history but also show what it was like inside the home of a Métis family in the 1880s. This is a photograph of inside Riel House. In this photograph you can see several crosses displayed on the wall. The crosses demonstrate that the Riel family was very religious. The painting on the right is of Louis Riel. His family draped black fabric on his picture when he died as a symbol of their grief.