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2 unusual facts about Gabriel Dumont


Gabriel Dumont

École secondaire Gabriel-Dumont, a public French first language high school in London, Ontario, Canada

Gabriel Dumont Institute, a post-secondary educational institution in Saskatchewan, Canada


Acheson Irvine

Shortly before his arrival there, a skirmish took place at Duck Lake, outside Batoche, between the existing NWMP forces, led by Crozier, and a group of Métis and Indians led by Gabriel Dumont, with the NWMP coming off worst.

Wingard, Saskatchewan

During the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, Peterson and the other settlers fled to Prince Albert to escape Gabriel Dumont's victorious rebels after the Battle of Duck Lake, alongside the retreating North-West Mounted Police and Prince Albert Volunteers.


see also

North-West Rebellion

Batoche marks the site of Gabriel Dumont's grave site, Albert Caron’s House, Batoche school, Batoche cemetery, Letendre store, Dumont's river crossing, Gariépy's crossing, Batoche crossing, St. Antoine de Padoue Church, Métis rifle pits, and RNWMP battle camp.