“I have nothing but my heart and I have given it long ago to my country.”

— Louis Riel

Immediately before his execution in 1885, when a guard asked him for a souvenir, as quoted in Fifty Mighty Men (1977) by Grant MacEwan, p. 45

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Canadian politician 1844–1885

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