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Fort Garry was established in 1822 by the
Hudson Bay Company where the Red and Assiniboine Rivers
met. It replaced the Northwest Fur Trading Companies old
Fort Gibraltar and was name after the deputy Governor of
the HBC, Nicholas Garry. As still occurs today, in 1826
the rivers both overflowed their banks and destroyed the
Fort and t was not rebuilt until 1835. By this time it
was referred to as Upper Fort Garry because Lower Fort
Garry had been constructed 32 kilometres downstream in
1831.
It became the centre
of action in 1870 when the HBC had agreed to turn over
the vast Northwest country to the new dominion of Canada
and as a protest against the process the Fort was
occupied by Louis Riel and his Métis followers. As a
result, Manitoba was admitted to Canada as a province
and by 1874 the area around Upper Fort Garry was
established as Winnipeg which quickly overgrew the fort
and became the Provincial Capital.
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