John schultz louis riel biography

Physician, merchant, MP (1871-1872), MP (1872-1873), MP (1874-1878), MP (1878-1882), Senator, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1888-1895).

Born in Amherstburg, Essex County, Ontario, on 1 January 1840, the son of William Schultz and Elizabeth Riley. He claimed to have attended Oberlin College, as well as Victoria University, Cobourg, and to have graduated from Queen’s University, Kingston.

Oberlin has no record of his attendance. He attended one term at Victoria, and two terms at Queen’s, but received no degree.

John schultz louis riel biography

Thus, there is no evidence of his having received a medical degree or having been licensed by Victoria University, as he later claimed. In 1861 he went to Fort Garry to visit his half-brother, Henry McKenney. Soon after his arrival, he advertised in the Nor’Wester as “Physician and Surgeon.” According to Archbishop Matheson, Sch