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Upper Fort Garry Heritage Provincial Park
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Janine
April 26, 2016
Birthplace of the province of Manitoba
Lee
June 25, 2022
Historical Upper Fort Garry close to the Forks Market and the Historic Fort Garry Hotel
Kristie
July 8, 2017
One of the newest provincial parks, Upper Fort Garry Park tells the story of Winnipeg. First permanent European location in the area. The designers of the park made it easy to visualize the former structure. The Gate is the only original part of the Fort left. I see lots of people jogging through.
Sylvia
August 23, 2021
HERITAGE VALUE Upper Fort Garry Gate, also called the Governor's Gate, is one of the few nineteenth-century structures that remain in Winnipeg to recall the city's earliest period of commercial development. The gate is a remnant of a large Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) complex, Upper Fort Garry, strategically situated on major river transport routes and for several decades in the 1800s the economic, political and social centre of the Red River Settlement. Within its walls were the facilities and personnel that supported the HBC's vast inland fur trade and the work of the territorial government. In 1869-70, as the headquarters of Louis Riel's provisional government, the fort also became the focus of several pivotal events in the course of the Red River Rebellion that coincided with the territory's transfer to Canada. The stone and wood gate, a shell structure added to the fort's northwest side near the Governor's House during a major expansion, is vernacular in style with hints of Norman and Italian Renaissance influences in its battlements, large archway and detailing. Designed by HBC employee Alexander Hunter Murray, the gate displays the grandiosity and dignity that befitted its occasional ceremonial role and distinguished it from the fort's other entrances and bastions. After 1870, Upper Fort Garry's commercial and political relevance quickly declined and its facilities were dismantled, leaving only the gate to be preserved in situ as a Winnipeg landmark and rare structural link to the city's colonial origins.
HERITAGE VALUE Upper Fort Garry Gate, also called the Governor's Gate, is one of the few nineteenth-century structures that remain in Winnipeg to recall the city's earliest period of commercial development. The gate is a remnant of a large Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) complex, Upper Fort Garry, strate…
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130 Main St
Winnipeg, MB
Broadway - Assiniboine