Posted AT 1:49 AM EDT on 08/10/05
Riel's twice-stolen relic
Batoche, Sask. and Stony Mountain, Man. — As Gary Floyd Guiboche lifted the Bell of Batoche out of the glass container that long guarded this Canadian trophy of war, he was struck by the mystique surrounding the relic.
The silver sparkled. Métis leader Louis Riel was connected to it. It embodied 106 years of resentment toward the Canadian government for quashing a Métis uprising.
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