Commentary
Since 1866, Irish nationalists in the United States had been launching cross-border attacks into Canada hoping that military success in that British territory would lead, somehow, to an end to the occupation of Ireland.
W.B. O'Donoghue (seated 2-R) and Louis Riel (seated 3-R) along with Mr. Riel's councillors circa 1869–1870. CP Photo
Gerry Bowler
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Gerry Bowler is a Canadian historian and a senior fellow of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
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