Lower Fort Garry

This is a photograph of several people dressed in the clothes that people in the late-1800s would wear, standing in front of a building at Lower Fort Garry.  Lower Fort Garry is the oldest standing fur trading post in North America.  Costumed interpreters act out what it was like to live during the 1800s.  Click on the link below to read the research notes of a journalist, Kip Park, to see why Lower Fort Garry is considered by many Manitobans to be such a historically-important landmark.  Then write a paragraph or two in your own words on why you think or don't think that Lower Fort Garry is a historically-significant Manitoban landmark.

Read Kip Park's research notes on the history of Lower Fort Garry.

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