Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site of Canada

Cultural Heritage

What makes Lower Fort Garry unique?

Encampment
© Parks Canada/ R. Pullano, 1999.

• It was the place where Treaty Number One was made between the Saulteaux (Ojibwa) and Swampy Cree First Nations people and the Crown;

• It is one of the finest collections of early stone buildings in Western Canada;

• As a Hudson's Bay company post, it was a focus for industry and transport, as well as a supply and distribution centre for the fur trade of the company's Northern Department; and,

• It was used by the federal government for public purposes in the 1870s, notably as the first training base for the North West Mounted Police.

The Stone Fort Treaty