| Brenda: You are quite correct about the lawyers for sure even back in the 1800s. And true about societal change. Not sure how many lawyers are practicing in Canada in this day and age.
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| Brenda: No it wasn't quite as drastic as, "I'll make sure your line dies with you." But being Metis they could have destroyed their farms and burned their towns or villages. It was back in the day when the law said whatever it wanted especially when it came to Metis or First Nations. The RCMP, who were the first police or arm of the government at that time could shoot a Metis person or First Nations person and no one would bat an eye. Back then Canada didn't have a true constitution.
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| Brenda: I probably could find out something about the case. He was tried for treason in Canada. Sir John A's government brought the charges. |
6ixStringJack: Always got to keep in mind that minds and societal norms are a lot different in 2025 than they were back then. You definitely didn't have 1.2 Million Lawyers sleazing it up in the US back then.  |
| 6ixStringJack: Without knowing anything except that it took place a long time before I was born, not going to lie... but I'll bet they just put onto paper whatever they wanted to. Whatever happened might not have been legal or constitutional. Who was going to do anything about it? Not like somebody was going to go on twitter and announce it to the world. Those were back in the days of "you do that and I'll not only shoot you down, but I'll burn your village to the ground and make sure your lineage dies along with you?. |
| 6ixStringJack: Can you find any historical legal stuff about the case? He was tried for treason here or in Canada? |
| Brenda: Here is something else for the Riel question. How to do you put someone on trial for treason, who isn't technically a citizen. Metis were and are considered Indian. So, to do that the Federal government must have considered him "French" thereby giving him citizenship, so they could do that. |
Brenda: It seems like it. Never know but I am happy knowing what I know with computers, unless I hit a real snag then it may be time to hit the books.  |
| 6ixStringJack: So many paralells. Like I said, if you happened to have been interested in computers more, you would have already figured out more than you ever needed to know. It ain't rocket science. I'd probably struggle more with knitting than you'd do with coding I'd bet. |
| Brenda: I hear ya. I stopped knitting and crocheting for around 5 or 6 years. The crocheting came back faster. Had to look old knitting patterns I have to remember the knitting. But that was all. The clarinet doesn't need fixing. The reeds are a thin piece of wood that you put into the mouth piece. And it helps to make the different note sounds. They come in different thicknesses and they were pretty cheap the last time someone gave me a couple. Now, I don't know. To find a price I would have to look them up on line. |
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| 6ixStringJack: Yeah... That's about my experince with what I'm working on right now too. Last time I did any real work on it was almost 8 years ago by now, so there was about 7 years in between where I didn't have any practice. Some of it comes right back to you, but if I wasn't always super diligent at taking notes, I don't know if I really could have gotten back into it on this level. How much does it cost to fix the clarinet? |
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| Brenda: That's cool. I've learned a good number of things by doing over the years. And have been able to pick them up again if I haven't done them in years. Like knitting and crocheting. Had to relearn both after not doing them for a good long time. And once I've gotten a feel for it again it becomes muscle memory. I would imagine that if I could get back to my clarinet (which needs new reeds), it would be the same thing. I would hope. |
| 6ixStringJack: Hehe. Been known to step on a few toes myself. Sometimes I luck out and the right person at the right time sees a coding request I've made and I get some assistance with automation. I've even been able to take code others have written for me and made it do other things without needing to bother them again. I just can't be arsed to learn and commit to memory all the basics and the ins and outs. I'm not interested in the coding itself. I'm only using it as a means to do what I'm interested in. Often times for me that just means a lot of persistence, trial and error and brute forcing things until they work right. But at least I've learned enough to do some of it automatically, and enough to know when something I want to do isn't going to be coded by anybody that I have access too and just needs to be done by hand. |
| Brenda: I am terrible with math but you need it to become an archaeologist. The reason for that is you need to be able to lay out a grid pattern and such for digging. But truthfully I hate it. When I was in high school just after VCRs came out, I learned how to wire one up to a tv. Teacher one day had a video to run but she couldn't connect the VCR to the tv. And apparently no one else in the class could. So, I got up and went over and did it. My dad always said if you can do something that no one else can. Don't worry about stepping on toes, just go do it. |