Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 4

The Sixth Regiment of Foot at Lower Fort Garry

by William R. Morrison

Conclusions

The Sixth Regiment of Foot played no spectacular part in the history of western Canada. The danger for which it was hastily transported across 2,000 miles of ocean and muskeg proved to be illusory; the attack against which it stood guard never came. Yet it provided an object lesson for those who cared to learn — that Great Britain in 1846 was still ready and able to defend her colonies, even the weak and isolated one far away on the banks of the Red River.