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Fort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post located at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in or near the area now known as The Forks in what is now central Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1]

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  1. 33 relations: Assiniboine River, Broadway (Winnipeg), Coat of arms of Winnipeg, Council of Assiniboia, Council of Keewatin, Fort Garry Brewing Company, Fort Garry Horse, Fort Garry Hotel, Fort Gibraltar, Fort Rouge (fortification), Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, History of Winnipeg, Hudson's Bay Company, Louis Riel, Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba, Manitoba Club, Métis, National Historic Sites of Canada, New France, Nicholas Garry, North West Company, Pemmican War, Red River Colony, Red River of the North, Red River Rebellion, Spokane Garry, Temporary North-West Council, The Forks, Winnipeg, Trading post, Western Canada, Winnipeg, Winnipeg Route 52.

  2. History of Winnipeg
  3. Hudson's Bay Company forts in Manitoba

Assiniboine River

The Assiniboine River (Rivière Assiniboine) is a river that runs through the prairies of Western Canada in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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Broadway (Winnipeg)

Broadway is a street in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Coat of arms of Winnipeg

The coat of arms of Winnipeg is the full armorial achievement as used by the municipal government as an official symbol.

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Council of Assiniboia

The Council of Assiniboia (Conseil d'Assiniboine) was the first appointed administrative body of the District of Assiniboia, operating from 1821 until 1870.

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Council of Keewatin

The Council of Keewatin was an unelected legislative body and territorial government for the now defunct District of Keewatin in Canada.

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Fort Garry Brewing Company

The Fort Garry Brewing Company Ltd is a brewery in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Fort Garry Horse

The Fort Garry Horse is a Canadian Army Reserve armoured regiment based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Fort Garry Hotel

The Fort Garry Hotel—officially the Fort Garry Hotel, Spa and Conference Centre—is an early-20th-century hotel in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, that opened for the first time on December 11, 1913.

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Fort Gibraltar

Fort Gibraltar was founded in 1809 by Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield of the North West Company in present-day Manitoba, Canada. Fort Garry and Fort Gibraltar are Hudson's Bay Company forts in Manitoba.

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Fort Rouge (fortification)

Fort Rouge was a fort located on the Assiniboine River in Manitoba, Canada, on the site of what is now the city of Winnipeg.

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Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental railway running from Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, a Pacific coast port.

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History of Winnipeg

The history of Winnipeg comprises its initial population of Aboriginal peoples through its settlement by Europeans to the present day.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.

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Louis Riel

Louis Riel (22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people.

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Lower Fort Garry

Lower Fort Garry was built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company on the western bank of the Red River, north of the original Fort Garry (now in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada). Fort Garry and Lower Fort Garry are Hudson's Bay Company forts in Manitoba.

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Manitoba

Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country.

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Manitoba Club

The Manitoba Club is private club in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Métis

The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces.

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National Historic Sites of Canada

National Historic Sites of Canada (Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC), as being of national historic significance.

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New France

New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.

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Nicholas Garry

Nicholas Garry (1782–1852) was a British trader who toured the remote trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company after it merged with its younger rival, the North West Company.

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North West Company

The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821.

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Pemmican War

The Pemmican War was a series of violent confrontations between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West Company (NWC) in the Canadas from 1812 to 1821.

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Red River Colony

The Red River Colony (or Selkirk Settlement), also known as Assiniboia, was a colonization project set up in 1811 by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, on of land in British North America.

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Red River of the North

The Red River (rivière Rouge), also called the Red River of the North (rivière Rouge du Nord) to differentiate it from the Red River in the south of the continent, is a river in the north-central United States and central Canada.

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Red River Rebellion

The Red River Rebellion (Rébellion de la rivière Rouge), also known as the Red River Resistance, Red River uprising, or First Riel Rebellion, was the sequence of events that led up to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Colony, in the early stages of establishing today's Canadian province of Manitoba. Fort Garry and Red River Rebellion are history of Winnipeg.

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Spokane Garry

Spokane Garry (sometimes spelled Spokan Garry, Spokane: Slough-Keetcha) (1811 – 1892) was a Native American leader of the Middle Spokane tribe.

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Temporary North-West Council

The Temporary North-West Council, more formally known as the Council of the Northwest Territories and by its short name as the North-West Council, lasted from the creation of Northwest Territories, Canada, in 1870 until it was dissolved in 1876.

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The Forks, Winnipeg

The Forks (La Fourche) is a historic site, meeting place, and green space in downtown Winnipeg located at the confluence of the Red River and the Assiniboine River.

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Trading post

A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory in European and colonial contexts, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded.

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Western Canada

Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces, Canadian West or the Western provinces of Canada, and commonly known within Canada as the West, is a Canadian region that includes the four western provinces just north of the Canada–United States border namely (from west to east) British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada.

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Winnipeg Route 52

Route 52 is a major north-south arterial route in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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See also

History of Winnipeg

Hudson's Bay Company forts in Manitoba

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Garry

Also known as Forts Rouge, Garry, and Gibraltar National Historic Site of Canada, Upper Fort Garry.