11 Libby Compton Libby Compton was born in Brandon, Manitoba , during the turbulent years of the Northwest ( Riel ) Rebellion. She died just a few months short of her 103rd birthday. In her last years, spent in the manor in Montague, she surrounded herself with the memorabilia of a lifetime. She loved to talk of her past, of her family - of her son Dan, a former Speaker of the Prince Edward Island Legislature. She was proud of her life, proud to have been a pioneer in the world in which she was young. Pioneers had to learn to be self-sustaining. They had to learn to look after things. One thing I never did was get panicky. I could keep pretty cool in an emergency. That was one quality I had, I guess. Beginnings I was born around the [time of] the . When Louis Riel was executed. I believe that Louis Riel was in the right. He was a Metis or a half-breed and all he was doing was pleading the cause for his people. He might have been a bit fanatic, but that's all he asked. But the whites thought them¬ selves quite a superior race and they were not fair to the Indians. They're still not really fair to them. But he was a very religious man, a sincere Catholic. He was arrested after a certain length of time and I think it was hung he was. My sympathy always went to the Indians of that period. The time of the , the trouble was growing and there was quite a bit of nasty work done among the Indians and the white man. Libby Compton "-*