Secondary Sources

This brief report lists the date (1928-30), architects, builders, original cost, specifications, history, and significance/context for the building. Photographs are included.

This report focuses on the late 19th century at The Forks on two Aboriginal themes: Native Society and Economy of the Red River Settlement (1850-70), including Métis, Canadiens, Orkney, Scots, and Amerindian interactions, Red River settlement and Hudson’s Bay Company in the 1850s-1860s, and the Red River resistance of 1869-70. Native Society in Transition (1870-1900) includes discussion of the Amerindian people (Ojibwa, Salteaux and Cree) and the Indian Act and treaties, and the Métis in “New Manitoba”. Reproductions of 22 maps and photos of people and places of the era are also included.

This is a study of thirty-five soil samples, from Parks Canada’s excavation at The Forks in 1984 and 1988. The purpose of this paper is to determine what plants were growing at The Forks, and how they were used. The study is divided into two periods: BC 4000 to AD 1780, then AD 1780 to the present. The article discusses the Methods used (vegetation survey, collection of sediment samples, processing and data analysis); Environment and Plant Resources (vegetation survey results, climate, landforms and hydrology, soils, natural habitats and distribution of plants in early historic times, plant resources, environmental history over the past 1500 years, predicted plant use at The Forks); Past Environments and Ethnobotany (the samples, reconstruction of past soils, vegetation and ethnobotany, comparison with seed remains found at other northern plains sites).

This is a study of thirty-five soil samples, from Parks Canada’s excavation at The Forks in 1984 and 1988. The purpose of this paper is to determine what plants were growing at The Forks, and how they were used. The study is divided into two periods: BC 4000 to AD 1780, then AD 1780 to the present. The article discusses the Methods used (vegetation survey, collection of sediment samples, processing and data analysis); Environment and Plant Resources (vegetation survey results, climate, landforms and hydrology, soils, natural habitats and distribution of plants in early historic times, plant resources, environmental history over the past 1500 years, predicted plant use at The Forks); Past Environments and Ethnobotany (the samples, reconstruction of past soils, vegetation and ethnobotany, comparison with seed remains found at other northern plains sites). There are maps, diagrams, plant/seed lists. Appendix 1 is about Flotation, processing and analysis, Appendix 2 with notes on distribution and interpretation.