Playing Louis Reil has been a dream of Bernard Turgeon's for years

Original Toronto Star caption: Playing Louis Reil has been a dream of Bernard Turgeon's for years. You see when I went to school in the West; Riel was dimissed as a rebel and an outlaw; he says. This irritated my French blood. In this scene; Riel is begged by his mother (Patricia Rideout; left) and sister (Mary Morrison) to spare the life of an Orangeman captured by his rebel army.