U-111, a Type-IXB U-boat of the 2nd Unterseebootsflottille, was a week’s sail from the French coast and the submarine pens at Lorient, France, when it took a detour.
A report had come in that a British steamer, possibly a tanker, was disabled and awaiting aid from a sea-going tugboat. U-boat headquarters, or BdU, suggested Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm Kleinschmidt put the stricken vessel out of its misery.
“I fear it will all end badly,” wrote Sister Jane Slocombe of Montreal’s Grey Nuns sometime during the mid-1800s.
“I fear this poor child does not have a good head on his shoulders.”
This “poor child” was none other than Louis Riel, the Métis-born father of Manitoba and protector of Indigenous-French rights in the Prairies. Riel was instrumental in leading two Métis governments and bringing Manitoba into Confederation.
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