The Many Peoples of Northwestern North America

Upper Fort included carpenters, coopers, masons and blacksmiths. They helped to construct and repair buildings at the fort, as well as make the barrels, kegs, and cassettes used in the…

The Birth of a City and a Province

displeasure with Metis status in the new province. The ensuing history of Winnipeg in the early 1870s demonstrates how these early Canadian immigrants and their armed force effectively ended Metis…

Government at Upper Fort Garry

settlement sat with their French-speaking counterparts in the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia and, acting as responsible representatives of the community, the body voted unanimously to accept Canada’s Manitoba Act and…

First Nations Experience

of the Red and Assiniboine, Indigenous peoples had been visiting and trading at the site and assembling for excursions throughout the prairies and parkland. It was a crossroads in the…

Trade and Transport

people moved to the new farms and communities of the prairie hinterland. Over the course of its history the HBC’s complex system of transport was critical to its mercantile success….

In the Archives

Sources Entrance of Manitoba into Canada Newspapers & other resources: Manitoba Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada The Archives of Manitoba Keystone database . Historical Winnipeg Free Press Newspapers…

Resources and Natural Systems

the fort’s construction in the 1830s the settlement was largely denuded of trees, cut down for building purposes and for firewood. By the 1840s settlers and company servants were travelling…