Les memoires de Louis Schmidt. 8 Juin 1911.

Louis Schmidt's memoirs and addendum provide an autobiographical account of his life, the plight of the Metis and their grievances, the causes of the Red River Resistance of 1869-1870, his secretarial responsibilities with Louis Riel, and the struggle leading to the establishment of Manitoba as a province. The memoirs were published in Le Patriote, no. 14, 8 Juin 1911.

Historical note:

Louis Schmidt dit Laferte, French Metis bureaucrat, intellectual and community leader, was born in 1844 in St. Francois-Xavier, in present-day Manitoba. He had a German name but was considered a French Metis. Schmidt, along with Louis Riel and Daniel McDougall were sent, by Bishop Tache, to Quebec to further their education. There, Schmidt and Riel forged a friendship that would carry through their lives until Riel broke from the church. By 1861, Schmidt had returned to the Red River Settlement. He served as secretary in Louis Riel's provisional government and helped to draft the List of Rights, a bill that helped form the basis of the Manitoba Act. Besides sitting as an M.P. for St. Boniface West from 1870 to 1874 and then for St. Francois-Xavier in 1878-79, Schmidt kept his distance from politics after the 1869-70 Resistance. During the Northwest Resistance, Schmidt stayed in Prince Albert and backed the government. Schmidt later testified to Riel's insanity at his treason trial in Regina, SK.