Lower Fort Garry
 
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Lower Fort Garry is a historic Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) trading post in Canada . It is the oldest surviving stone fort in North America . The Reservation Treaty Treaty 1 between Queen Victoria and representatives of the Cree and Chippewa was concluded here.
Lower Fort Garry was built to replace the original Fort Garry in 1831 after the latter was destroyed by a flood in 1826. Lower Fort Garry proved unsuitable for administrative purposes due to its distance from most of the settlements in the area and was replaced in 1836 by the rebuilt original Fort Garry, henceforth Upper Fort Garry . Due to its logistically favorable location, Lower Fort Garry was retained by the HBC. Lower Fort Garry remained in the possession of HBC until 1951, after which it was given to the State of Canada.
In 1871, the first of eleven treaties between Queen Victoria and representatives of the Cree and Chippewa , who lived in southeastern Manitoba, was concluded in Lower Fort Garry . The Canada founded in 1867, ushering in the settlement of the Red River Settlement , a known area after a year already with the previously Manitoba Act an initial basis had been created. The treaty is also called the Stone Fort Treaty after the place of its signature .
Web links
- Parks Canada Website: Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site of Canada
Footnotes
- ↑ Original text of Treaty 1 ( Memento of March 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 0.1 ″ N , 96 ° 55 ′ 21.7 ″ W.