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unusual facts about Fort Garry


Auld Kirk Scotch Settlement

After traversing the five hundred miles of rocky wilderness between Fort Garry and Fort William, they were transported in the Nor 'Westers' canoes, to the outlet of the Nottawasaga River, which they ascented to Willow Creek, thence over the nine-mile portage to the head of Kempenfelt Bay.


Leaf Hills Moraines

In the 1840s, the mountains were pierced by the Woods Trail and skirted by the East Plains Trail, two of the Red River Trails between Fort Garry (modern Winnipeg) and Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Pembina Trail

It refers to the easternmost of the three principal routes from Pembina and Fort Garry in the former Red River Colony of Manitoba (then known as Assiniboia or the Selkirk Colony) to Mendota and St. Paul.

Stephen Harriman Long

Major Long's 1823 expedition up the Minnesota River (then known as St. Peter's River), to the headwaters of the Red River of the North, down that river to Pembina and Fort Garry, and thence by canoe across British Canada to Lake Huron is sometimes confused with his initial expedition to the Red River in modern-day Texas and Oklahoma.


see also

Armstrong's Point

Armstrong's Point is represented by Jenny Gerbasi in the constituency of Fort Rouge - East Fort Garry at the municipal level, Rob Altemeyer in the constituency of Wolseley at the provincial level, and Pat Martin in the constituency of Winnipeg Centre at the federal level.

Stephen Harriman Long

This expedition for a time was joined by the Italian adventurer Giacomo Beltrami, who argued with Long and left the expedition near Fort Garry.