Pierriche Parenteau

Was a politician, First President of Manitoba, appointed by Loqiqs Riel founder of Manitoba. He was a member of the Convention of Twenty-Four and Convention of Forty and served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.

Pierre Parenteau (1817-1894) Pierre Parenteau was the son of Joseph Parenteau Sr. and his Cree wife Susanne. Pierre was well known among his contemporaries as a skillful hunter in the great Metis buffalo hunts. He first married Josephte Delorme (b. 1823) and they had two children. He then married Marie McMillan in 1845 and in 1850 married Marie Anne Caron. One of his daughters was married to François Xavier Letendré dit Batoche. Pierre once owned part of the land upon which the Riel family finally settled in St. Vital. Pierre was a member, and the Chairman of Riel’s 16 man Council (Exovedate) at Batoche during the 1885 Resistance. A trusted friend and political ally of Louis Riel, Parenteau had been active in the struggle for Metis self-determination since the days of the 1869 Resistance in Manitoba. At that time he was an influential man, he was a Justice of the Peace at St. Norbert and was elected as a delegate to the Convention of 1869 and the Convention of Forty in 1870, which discussed the formation of a provisional government at Red River. He was elected a Captain of the Metis troops in 1871 and worked to repel the Fenian invasion. When Lieutenant-governor Archibald visited Red River in October of 1871, Parenteau, along with Ambroise Lépine and Louis Riel, were chosen to be presented to Archibald as representatives of the Metis people.

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