Happy Louis Riel Day!

So Man­i­to­ba has a long week­end in Feb­ru­ary, still rel­a­tive­ly new, called Louis Riel Day, named for the only Father of Con­fed­er­a­tion hanged for trea­son.

It’s a provin­cial hol­i­day, not a fed­er­al one, which means the mail still comes. Which means that today, I got a pack­age of choco­late chip cook­ies from my sis­ter in Alberta.

Woo hoo, hap­py Louis Riel Day to me!

(If you’re inter­est­ed in Louis Riel, this graph­ic nov­el is a pret­ty sol­id introduction.)