Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site
Lower Fort Garry
The best-preserved stone fur-trading fort of the Hudson's Bay Company in North America, where costumed interpreters in 19th-century dress recreate life at a fur trading post each summer.
Lower Fort Garry was built in the 1830s on the banks of the Red River. It was a key trading and supply post for the Hudson's Bay Company in the Red River Colony, and in 1871, Canada and Indigenous peoples signed Treaty 1 here. The fort preserves its stone walls, bastions, the Governor's House, storehouses and fur warehouses. Costumed interpreters play fur traders, blacksmiths and cooks, demonstrating life and trade in the 19th century. The site is managed by Parks Canada, admission is about C$8, and it is open only in summer. It is about 30 km from downtown Winnipeg, a 35-minute drive, and you can stop in the town of Selkirk on the way.
Opening hours
Summer approx. 09:00–17:00
Nearby sights
- Birds Hill Provincial Park
- Oak Hammock Marsh
- Royal Canadian Mint (Winnipeg)
- St. Boniface & Cathedral Ruins
- Manitoba Museum
- Esplanade Riel
- The Forks
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights