Fort Garry
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Area
- Description: human settlement in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Also known as: “Upper Fort Garry Gate”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lower Fort Garry.
Lower Fort Garry
Park
Photo: Vintotal, Public domain.
Lower Fort Garry was built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company on the western bank of the Red River, 20 mi north of the original Fort Garry. Treaty 1 was signed there.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lockport and Selkirk.
Lockport
Town
Lockport is a small unincorporated community in Manitoba, Canada. It is located 28 kilometres north of the city of Winnipeg along the Red River. The community is split between the Rural Municipalities of St. Andrews and St. Clements. Lockport is situated 3 km south of Fort Garry.
Selkirk
Photo: J Hazard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Selkirk is a city of over 10,000 people in the Interlake region of Manitoba, about a quarter of whom are of Indigenous origin. The mainstays of the local economy are tourism, a steel mill, and a major psychiatric hospital.
Rural Municipality of St. Andrews
Village
St. Andrews is a rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada. It lies west of the Red River; its southern border is approximately 8 kilometres north of Winnipeg. Rural Municipality of St. Andrews is situated 6 km southwest of Fort Garry.
Fort Garry
- Category: trading post
- Location: Manitoba, Prairies, Canada, North America
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Slovenian—“Fort Garry” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “加里堡”
- Czech: “Fort Garry”
- Dutch: “Fort Garry”
- Finnish: “Fort Garry”
- Finnish: “Upper Fort Garry”
- Finnish: “Ylempi Fort Garry”
- French: “fort Garry”
- French: “Fort Garry”
- German: “Fort Garry”
- German: “Fort Gibraltar”
- German: “Upper Fort Garry”
- Hebrew: “פורט גארי”
- Japanese: “ガリー砦”
- Japanese: “フォート・ガリー”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Garry”
- Norwegian: “Fort Garry”
- Persian: “فورت گری”
- Slovak: “Fort Garry”
- Slovenian: “Fort Garry”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lieu historique national du Canada de Lower Fort Garry and Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site of Canada.
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