Just north of Winnipeg, on the banks of the Red River, sits a bastion of history. From hosting the signing of the first of the Numbered Treaties to serving as a Hudson's Bay Company stronghold and much more, Lower Fort Garry has had a varied and fascinating history. Au nord de Winnipeg, sur les rives de la rivière Rouge, se trouve un bastion de l’histoire. Lower Fort Garry a notamment été le lieu de signature du premier des traités numérotés, a servi de bastion de la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson et plus encore, ce qui rend son histoire variée et fascinante. Source: Parks Canada Website (2022)

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Lower Fort Garry National Historic Park 1962		Fort Garry Inférieur, Parc historique national 1962
1969	1969	1977
1983		Date Unknown
Canada Day Celebrations 2016

Management Plan / Plan directeur (Parks Canada, 1994)

Management Plan / Plan directeur (Parks Canada, 2007)

Management Plan / Plan directeur (Parks Canada, 2018)

1968 Excavations at Lower Fort Garry Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 114 (Peter J. Priess, Parks Canada, 1969)

A Brief History of Lower Fort Garry, Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 4 (Dale Miquelon, Parks Canada, 1970)

Archaeological Investigations at Lower Fort Garry, 1971 Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 84 (W.J. Folan and Peter J. Priess, Parks Canada, 1972)

Archaeological Investigations at Lower Fort Garry, 1977 Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 336 (Peter J. Priess, Parks Canada, 1978)

Archaeological Investigations at Lower Fort Garry, 1978 Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 336 (Peter J. Priess and Linda J. Sears, Parks Canada, 1979.)

Archaeological Investigations in the Northwest Bastion and Bake House, Lower Fort Garry, 1973 Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 114 (John Dewhirst, Parks Canada, 1974)

Excavation at Lower Fort Garry, 1965-1967: A General Description of Excavations and Preliminary Discussions, Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 5 (James V. Chism, Parks Canada, 1972)

Fouilles à Lower Fort Garry: les opérations 1K44 et 1K45 - juillet 1969 Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 148 (Marcel Moussette, Parks Canada, 1969)

Heritage Character Statements / Énoncés de valeur patrimoniale, Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site

Furloft/Saleshop / Entrepôt de fourrures et magasin (FHBRO No. 89-04, September 1, 1992, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Southwest Bastion / Bastion sud-ouest (FHBRO No. 89-04, September 26, 1996, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Warehouse / Entrepôt (FHBRO No. 89-04, September 1, 1992, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Industrial and Agricultural Activities at Lower Fort Garry, Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 4 (George C. Ingram, Parks Canada, 1970)

Lower Fort Garry (extract from The Beaver, Outfit 265:1, June 1934)

Lower Fort Garry (extract from The Beaver, Outfit 266:3, December 1935)

Lower Fort Garry: A History of the Stone Fort (Robert Watson, 1928, ©Hudson's Bay Company)

Lower Fort Garry in 1868 (A.T. Cowley, extract from The Beaver, Outfit 265:2, September 1934)

Lower Fort Garry National Historic Park: A Period Landscape Study Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 407 (Greg Thomas, Parks Canada, 1979)

Lower Fort Garry (RM of St. Andrews) (Manitoba Historical Society, April 1, 2017)

Lower Fort Garry, The Fur Trade and the Settlement at Red River Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 202 (Carol Livermore, Parks Canada, 1976)

The Architecture of the Western Canadian Fur Trade: A Cultural-Historical Perspective (Henry W. Pyszczyk, extract from Bulletin (Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada), Vol. 17 Issue 2, 1992)

The Big House, Lower Fort Garry, Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 4 (George C. Ingram, Parks Canada, 1970)

The Ceramics of Lower Fort Garry: Operations 1 to 31 / Les céramiques du Lower Fort Garry: opérations 1 à 31 History and Archaeology/Histoire et archéologie 24 (Lynne Sussman, Parks Canada, 1979)

The Doctor's Office, Walls and North-West Bastion at Lower Fort Garry Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 51 (Philip Goldring, Parks Canada, 1971)

The Documentary and Archaeological Evidence of Fences Associated with the Engineer's Cottage, Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 148 (James V. Chism and Karlis Karklins, Parks Canada, 1970)

The Men's House, Lower Fort Garry: Its Furnishings and Place Within the Hudson's Bay Company Post Environment Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 246 (Gregory Thomas, Parks Canada, 1978)

The North West Bastion Bakehouse, Lower Fort Garry: A Structural and Furnishing Study Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 297 (Gregory Thomas, Parks Canada, 1979)

The Saleshop: Structure and Function, Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 148 (George C. Ingram, Parks Canada, 1967)

The Second Battalion, Quebec Rifles, at Lower Fort Garry, Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 4 (William R. Morrison, Parks Canada, 1970)

The Sixth Regiment of Foot at Lower Fort Garry, Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 4 (William R. Morrison, Parks Canada, 1970)

The South West Bastion, Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba: Structure and Function Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 148 (George C. Ingram, Parks Canada, 1967)

The Stone Fort (Elsie McKay, c1959)

Western Canadian Fur Trade Sites and the Iconography of Public Memory (Michael B. Payne and C.J. Taylor, excerpt from Manitoba History, No. 46, Autumn/Winter 2003-2004)

York Boats & Buffalo Robes: Fur Trade Life at Lower Fort Garry / Bateaux York et peaux d'emballage (Bison): la traite des fourrure au Lower Fort Garry (Parks Canada, 1980)

The following visual bibliography is just a sampling of the books which have been published for this park. ParksCanadaHistory.com does not endorse these, but are merely presenting them for informational purposes only. As most are copyrighted, we are only able to provide the covers, and not contents, of these publications.

Lower Fort Garry: A History of the Stone Fort Robert Watson 1928	cover only The Stone Fort: Lower Fort Garry Elsie McKay 1959	Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 4 1970	Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 5 1972
cover only Beyond the Gates of Lower Fort Garry Rural Municipality Of St. Andrews 1982	cover only A Good Solid Comfortable Establishment: An Illustrated History of Lower Fort Garry Graham MacDonald 1992	cover only Beyond the Gates of Lower Fort Garry: A Sequel Rural Municipality Of St. Andrews 2000