Talk and Tour: Louis Riel's Diary and the Work of David Garneau

Join us for an in-depth look at Louis Riel's Diary juxtaposed with David Garneau's paintings.

Aug 22 at 10:30am - 12pm

Founders' Gallery, The Military Museums

4520 Crowchild Trail SW

The University of Calgary’s Libraries & Cultural Resources acquired one of Louis Riel’s notebooks created during his 10+ years in exile, following the Red River Resistance of 1869-70.

How does this single historical item shed new light on the life of its creator? What questions remain unanswered?

The notebook appears in one of David Garneau’s paintings featured in the exhibition, Reading the Ruins, currently on display at the University of Calgary’s Founders’ Gallery (located inside The Military Museums).

Attendees will learn more about the context of Garneau’s paintings exploration of colonial rupture and non-colonial re-framing, with a focus on how selected belongings from UCalgary’s military collection of North-West Mounted Police era artefacts are recontextualized in Reading the Ruins.