The location of the Bell of Batoche is still a mystery, but after a trip to a Manitoba prison, the president of the Manitoba Metis Federation says he has some new leads to help him find it.
The famous bell has special significance to Metis people because Canadian soldiers took it from a church in the Metis community of Batoche, Sask. during the last battle of the 1885 North West Rebellion.
The silver-plated bell was brought east as a war trophy and eventually ended up on display in a Royal Canadian Legion hall in Millbrook, Ont. It was stolen from the hall in 1991, a few days after several Metis leaders had photographs taken with it.
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