Historical Overview

Content Advisory Committee.The development of historical themes for Upper Fort Garry, and the many related stories they generate, rest upon two overarching, yet linked, interpretive historical frameworks: Nation Building and…

Resources and Natural Systems

an “experimental” farm at the Forks, hoping to introduce more advanced agricultural techniques and technology to a fledgling community beset by crop failures and poor yields. Despite a considerable investment,…

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…

Stone Walls/Trellis

Assiniboine: A Thematic History, 1734-1850. Ottawa: Environment Canada, Parks Service, 1988. Guinn, Rodger. The Red-Assiniboine Junction: A Land Use and Structural History, 1770-1980. Ottawa: Parks Canada, 1980. Loewen, Brad and…

General Depot

the Fort designated as the ‘residential compound’. This area contained dwelling houses and a garden and was supposed to be separated from the fur trade and military business in the…

Map of the Site

Heritage Park Building locations and gardens in the former Fort identified by historic records and archaeological excavations, are demarcated by raised limestone walls. Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Heritage Wall Symbolizing…