{"id":1858,"date":"2021-03-19T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/passionethistoire.ca\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2021-04-12T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T16:33:58","slug":"passion-histoire-blog-a-conversation-with-dr-phil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/passionethistoire.ca\/en\/passion-histoire-blog-a-conversation-with-dr-phil\/","title":{"rendered":"PASSION & HISTOIRE BLOG – A conversation with Dr. Phil"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are limitless online resources for learning about the francophone history of Saint-Boniface. I\u2019ve already introduced you to a couple:\u00a0<\/strong>At the Heart of Manitoba\u2019s Francophone Community<\/strong><\/i><\/a>\u00a0documentary,\u00a0<\/strong>L\u00e9on et sa maison<\/strong><\/i><\/a>, and now here\u2019s a new one:\u00a0<\/strong>A Visit with Dr. Phil.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

The Saint-Boniface Museum offers a one-hour, documentary-style interview with Dr. Philippe Mailhot.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Creation of the Documentary<\/h3>\n

While the museum was closed, a professor of Indigenous studies at the University of Winnipeg was longing for the opportunity to bring his students for a guided tour of the Museum. From here, a system of questions and answers was born.<\/p>\n

Philippe Mailhot is in charge of responding to the students\u2019 questions. On top of his extensive knowledge of the time period, he\u2019s also a prominent figure in the world of the Museum. He worked there from 1986 to 2014, first as assistant conservator and then as executive director.<\/p>\n

15 questions serve to satisfy the audience\u2019s curiosity on the history, culture, and society of the Red River Colony and its most famous spokesperson, Louis Riel.<\/p>\n

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L\u2019entr\u00e9e de l\u2019exposition Louis Riel au Mus\u00e9e de Saint-Boniface\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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What I Learned with Dr. Phil<\/h3>\n
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  1. Storytelling leads to the creation of more stories.\u00a0<\/strong>
    \nThe Saint-Boniface Museum has in its collection a reproduction of a statuette of Saint-Joseph, the patron saint of the M\u00e9tis, the head of which is separated from the body. The Riel House in Saint-Vital also has a reproduction of the statuette. However, the stories behind how it was damaged differ drastically from one museum to the next! No less than four different stories exist, and all are accounted for in the documentary.<\/li>\n
  2. The difference between a Treaty and an Act.<\/strong>
    \nPolitically speaking, the two concepts don\u2019t concern the same people. A Treaty is an agreement between sovereigns, like Treaty 1 on which Winnipeg is situated today. On the other hand, an Act is a parliamentary matter. It\u2019s for this reason that it was an Act that founded the province of Manitoba in 1870: the Canadian government didn\u2019t recognize Louis Riel\u2019s provisional government as sovereign of the land.<\/li>\n
  3. One single object can be symbolic of multiple things.<\/strong>
    \nThe Saint-Boniface Museum had a moccasin that had belonged to Louis Riel. The other half of this pair of moccasins was in the Military Museum in Ontario as a trophy of war. The pair have since been reunited to celebrate its original owner as a part of the biggest collection of Riel\u2019s possessions (notably his suitcase and ceinture fl\u00e9ch\u00e9e). La paire maintenant r\u00e9unie c\u00e9l\u00e8bre son illustre propri\u00e9taire, dans la plus grande collection d\u2019objets lui ayant appartenu (la valise et la ceinture fl\u00e9ch\u00e9e notamment). One shoe, two perspectives!<\/li>\n
  4. Riel suffered racism.\u00a0<\/strong>
    \nLouis Riel himself was a target of racism throughout his life while pursuing his studies in Montreal, and when he was rejected by the family of the woman he wanted to marry because of his M\u00e9tis identity (Riel\u2019s father was M\u00e9tis and his mother French-Canadian). These experiences likely contributed to reinforcing his sense of identity and fueling his future battles.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    I then had the chance to ask Dr. Phil some questions of my own: if we invented the time machine and he could be a fly on the wall for any historical event, he\u2019d choose to see the negotiations between Ritchot, Cartier, and MacDonald.<\/p>\n

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    If you\u2019re interested in francophone and Manitoban history, I strongly recommend watching this documentary. You can rent it for $8.00 online in English or French on the\u00a0Saint-Boniface Museum\u2019s website<\/a>, and if you\u2019re wanting to view it for educational purposes, contact the Museum.<\/p>\n

    To top it all off, you can see the mentioned objects for yourself: the Saint-Boniface Museum is offering free admission all year to celebrate Manitoba 150!\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are limitless online resources for learning about the francophone history of Saint-Boniface. I\u2019ve already introduced you to a couple:\u00a0At the Heart of Manitoba\u2019s Francophone Community\u00a0documentary,\u00a0L\u00e9on et sa maison, and now here\u2019s a new one:\u00a0A Visit with Dr. Phil. The Saint-Boniface Museum offers a one-hour, documentary-style interview with Dr. Philippe Mailhot.\u00a0\u00a0   The Creation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-culture","category-museums-and-historic-sites","category-st-boniface"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/passionethistoire.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/passionethistoire.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/passionethistoire.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passionethistoire.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passionethistoire.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/passionethistoire.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/passionethistoire.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/passionethistoire.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passionethistoire.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passionethistoire.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}