Fort Garry

Fort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers is now downtown Winnipeg. It was set up in 1822 on or close to the site of the North West Company's Fort Gibraltar built up by John Wills in 1810 and obliterated by Governor Semple's men in 1816 amid the Pemmican Wars. Fortification Garry was named after Nicholas Garry, agent legislative leader of the Hudson's Bay Company. It filled in as the focal point of hide exchange inside the Red River Colony.

In 1826, an extreme surge pulverized the post. It was modified in 1835 by the HBC and named Upper Fort Garry to separate it from "the Lower Fort", or Lower Fort Garry, 32 km downriver, which was built up in 1831. All through the mid-to-late 19th century, Upper Fort Garry assumed a minor job in the genuine exchanging of hides, however was key to the organization of the HBC and the encompassing settlement. The Council of Assiniboia, the regulatory and legal body of the Red River Colony chiefly kept running by Hudson's Bay Company authorities, met at Upper Fort Garry. You can come, explore and experience this place.