Thomas Scott
Thomas Scott, adventurer (b at Clandeboye, Ire c 1842; d at Red River Colony, March 4 1870). Immigrating to Canada in 1863, Scott was "a violent and boisterous" individual with Protestant and Orange sympathies. He drifted to the Red River Colony in 1869. Captured and imprisoned several times by the Metis, he was
court-martialled and executed with Louis Riel's approval; he became an anglophone-protestant martyr and his execution became a symbol of Metis hostility to Ontario
court-martialled and executed with Louis Riel's approval; he became an anglophone-protestant martyr and his execution became a symbol of Metis hostility to Ontario