Roman catholic priest, missionary. Son of Isaie Ritchot and Marie Josephte Riopel, he worked on the family farm until 1844 where he enrolled at College L'Assomption. He was ordained into the Trappist Order, December 22, 1855.
After teaching in Berthierville while working on the college model-farm, he was named as first parish priest of the parish of Ste-Agathe-des-Monts (co. Labelle).
In 1862, he asked to be sent to the Red River Settlement, in the newly formed Saint-Boniface diocese to help Mrg Taché, who assigned him to the Métis parish of Saint Norbert.
In the summer of 1867, he went to organize the mission of Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, and came back to St-Norbert the next year.
Ritchot soon realized the Métis needed as much political as religious guidance. He became a close associate of Louis Riel and helped write the « List of Rights » for the Métis Provisional Council.
Along John and Alfred Henry Scott, he was named as delegate to negotiate the terms of entry of the Red River Colony into the canadian confederation.
The negociating team was arrested when entering Ontario, on the charge of the « murder » of Orangeman agitator and Thomas Scott, but was released after a personnal intervention of John A. MacDonald, Prime minister of Canada. The list of demands included the establishment of a province, control of public lands, the use of English and French in the provincial legislature, the courts, and public documents, a bilingual lieutenant governor and judge, separate schools and an amnesty for all members of the provisional government and those who acted on its behalf. Ritchot also suggested the name of the new province : Manitoba (the land of the Great Spirit). He presented the terms of the agreement before a public assembly held on June 24, 1870.
During most of the 1870s, he continued to pressure the canadian governement to fulfill its agreements towards the Metis while trying to keep them from moving to other territories. He also founded and organized new parishes, by purchasing lots surveyed in St-Norbert and vicinity and selling them to french-canadian families recruted among his former parishioners in Quebec and New England.
He was named Land agent, vicar general and apostolic prothonotary in 1897.
He was the founder of many institutions such a schools, the Sisters or Mercy the Bethtlem Hospice for abandoned children, and helped the Trappists to settle in his parish of St-Norbert.
His influence in the social, educational and political life of Manitoba is acknowledged in the names of streets, a school and many other institutions, and in 1992, he was finally recognized as a Founding father Manitoba.
Note : Noel Joseph Ritchot had many of his nephews to settle in Manitoba :
Josaphat Ritchot, Edouard Ritchot, Urgel Ritchot and Elie Ritchot.
His niece, Marie-Louise (Sister Ludovica) or the Grey Nuns, also came to Manitoba.
After teaching in Berthierville while working on the college model-farm, he was named as first parish priest of the parish of Ste-Agathe-des-Monts (co. Labelle).
In 1862, he asked to be sent to the Red River Settlement, in the newly formed Saint-Boniface diocese to help Mrg Taché, who assigned him to the Métis parish of Saint Norbert.
In the summer of 1867, he went to organize the mission of Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, and came back to St-Norbert the next year.
Ritchot soon realized the Métis needed as much political as religious guidance. He became a close associate of Louis Riel and helped write the « List of Rights » for the Métis Provisional Council.
Along John and Alfred Henry Scott, he was named as delegate to negotiate the terms of entry of the Red River Colony into the canadian confederation.
The negociating team was arrested when entering Ontario, on the charge of the « murder » of Orangeman agitator and Thomas Scott, but was released after a personnal intervention of John A. MacDonald, Prime minister of Canada. The list of demands included the establishment of a province, control of public lands, the use of English and French in the provincial legislature, the courts, and public documents, a bilingual lieutenant governor and judge, separate schools and an amnesty for all members of the provisional government and those who acted on its behalf. Ritchot also suggested the name of the new province : Manitoba (the land of the Great Spirit). He presented the terms of the agreement before a public assembly held on June 24, 1870.
During most of the 1870s, he continued to pressure the canadian governement to fulfill its agreements towards the Metis while trying to keep them from moving to other territories. He also founded and organized new parishes, by purchasing lots surveyed in St-Norbert and vicinity and selling them to french-canadian families recruted among his former parishioners in Quebec and New England.
He was named Land agent, vicar general and apostolic prothonotary in 1897.
He was the founder of many institutions such a schools, the Sisters or Mercy the Bethtlem Hospice for abandoned children, and helped the Trappists to settle in his parish of St-Norbert.
His influence in the social, educational and political life of Manitoba is acknowledged in the names of streets, a school and many other institutions, and in 1992, he was finally recognized as a Founding father Manitoba.
Note : Noel Joseph Ritchot had many of his nephews to settle in Manitoba :
Josaphat Ritchot, Edouard Ritchot, Urgel Ritchot and Elie Ritchot.
His niece, Marie-Louise (Sister Ludovica) or the Grey Nuns, also came to Manitoba.
Roman catholic priest, missionary. Son of Isaie Ritchot and Marie Josephte Riopel, he worked on the family farm until 1844 where he enrolled at College L'Assomption. He was ordained into the Trappist Order, December 22, 1855.
After teaching in Berthierville while working on the college model-farm, he was named as first parish priest of the parish of Ste-Agathe-des-Monts (co. Labelle).
In 1862, he asked to be sent to the Red River Settlement, in the newly formed Saint-Boniface diocese to help Mrg Taché, who assigned him to the Métis parish of Saint Norbert.
In the summer of 1867, he went to organize the mission of Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, and came back to St-Norbert the next year.
Ritchot soon realized the Métis needed as much political as religious guidance. He became a close associate of Louis Riel and helped write the « List of Rights » for the Métis Provisional Council.
Along John and Alfred Henry Scott, he was named as delegate to negotiate the terms of entry of the Red River Colony into the canadian confederation.
The negociating team was arrested when entering Ontario, on the charge of the « murder » of Orangeman agitator and Thomas Scott, but was released after a personnal intervention of John A. MacDonald, Prime minister of Canada. The list of demands included the establishment of a province, control of public lands, the use of English and French in the provincial legislature, the courts, and public documents, a bilingual lieutenant governor and judge, separate schools and an amnesty for all members of the provisional government and those who acted on its behalf. Ritchot also suggested the name of the new province : Manitoba (the land of the Great Spirit). He presented the terms of the agreement before a public assembly held on June 24, 1870.
During most of the 1870s, he continued to pressure the canadian governement to fulfill its agreements towards the Metis while trying to keep them from moving to other territories. He also founded and organized new parishes, by purchasing lots surveyed in St-Norbert and vicinity and selling them to french-canadian families recruted among his former parishioners in Quebec and New England.
He was named Land agent, vicar general and apostolic prothonotary in 1897.
He was the founder of many institutions such a schools, the Sisters or Mercy the Bethtlem Hospice for abandoned children, and helped the Trappists to settle in his parish of St-Norbert.
His influence in the social, educational and political life of Manitoba is acknowledged in the names of streets, a school and many other institutions, and in 1992, he was finally recognized as a Founding father Manitoba.
Note : Noel Joseph Ritchot had many of his nephews to settle in Manitoba :
Josaphat Ritchot, Edouard Ritchot, Urgel Ritchot and Elie Ritchot.
His niece, Marie-Louise (Sister Ludovica) or the Grey Nuns, also came to Manitoba.
After teaching in Berthierville while working on the college model-farm, he was named as first parish priest of the parish of Ste-Agathe-des-Monts (co. Labelle).
In 1862, he asked to be sent to the Red River Settlement, in the newly formed Saint-Boniface diocese to help Mrg Taché, who assigned him to the Métis parish of Saint Norbert.
In the summer of 1867, he went to organize the mission of Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, and came back to St-Norbert the next year.
Ritchot soon realized the Métis needed as much political as religious guidance. He became a close associate of Louis Riel and helped write the « List of Rights » for the Métis Provisional Council.
Along John and Alfred Henry Scott, he was named as delegate to negotiate the terms of entry of the Red River Colony into the canadian confederation.
The negociating team was arrested when entering Ontario, on the charge of the « murder » of Orangeman agitator and Thomas Scott, but was released after a personnal intervention of John A. MacDonald, Prime minister of Canada. The list of demands included the establishment of a province, control of public lands, the use of English and French in the provincial legislature, the courts, and public documents, a bilingual lieutenant governor and judge, separate schools and an amnesty for all members of the provisional government and those who acted on its behalf. Ritchot also suggested the name of the new province : Manitoba (the land of the Great Spirit). He presented the terms of the agreement before a public assembly held on June 24, 1870.
During most of the 1870s, he continued to pressure the canadian governement to fulfill its agreements towards the Metis while trying to keep them from moving to other territories. He also founded and organized new parishes, by purchasing lots surveyed in St-Norbert and vicinity and selling them to french-canadian families recruted among his former parishioners in Quebec and New England.
He was named Land agent, vicar general and apostolic prothonotary in 1897.
He was the founder of many institutions such a schools, the Sisters or Mercy the Bethtlem Hospice for abandoned children, and helped the Trappists to settle in his parish of St-Norbert.
His influence in the social, educational and political life of Manitoba is acknowledged in the names of streets, a school and many other institutions, and in 1992, he was finally recognized as a Founding father Manitoba.
Note : Noel Joseph Ritchot had many of his nephews to settle in Manitoba :
Josaphat Ritchot, Edouard Ritchot, Urgel Ritchot and Elie Ritchot.
His niece, Marie-Louise (Sister Ludovica) or the Grey Nuns, also came to Manitoba.
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