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	Lower Fort Garry, Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada - Architecture of Canada
		In 1837 the Upper Fort (at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine River) was reconstructed, as this was the established social and economic centre of the Red River Settlement.
		Upper Fort Garry conducted the Hudson’s Bay Company’s trading and administrative functions and the Lower Fort evolved as a significant fur trade provisioning and transshipment centre, and retail outlet for the Red River Settlement.
		Lower Fort Garry was also used as a training ground for the Northwest Mounted Police, as a provincial penitentiary, and in 1885-86 as a provincial lunatic asylum.
	canada.archiseek.com /manitoba/selkirk/lfg.html (390 words)

	Fort Garry
		Fort Garry was a trading post of the at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine[?] rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg.
		The first contingent of Mounties arrived in Lower Fort Garry on October 22, 1873, and on November 3 they were sworn in and commenced training.
		The fort is now one of Parks Canada[?]'s flagship historic sites, but over the years it has also been a penitentiary, and insane asylum, a HBC residence and a country club.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fo/Fort_Garry.html (469 words)

	Tourism: Historic Sites: European Settlement: Fort Carlton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Fort Carlton's main role in the early years was as a trading post and supplier of provisions to boat brigades and other posts in the Hudson's Bay Company network.
		Fort Garry was one of the major H.B.C. posts in Rupert's Land (North-West Territories) and the centre of government for the Red River Settlement and District of Assiniboia.
		The fort was noted for the construction of York boats and for providing garden vegetables, potatoes, wheat, white fish, buffalo meat and pemmican to the posts in the upper Saskatchewan and Athabasca districts.
	interactive.usask.ca /Ski/tourism/historic_sites/fort_carlton.html (1151 words)

	Lower Fort Garry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lower Fort Garry or "The Stone Fort", as it is known, was built in 1831 by the Hudson's Bay Company on the western bank of the Red River, twenty miles north of the original Fort Garry, which is now Winnipeg, Manitoba.
		Although the Lower Fort did trade a small amount of furs, its main purpose was as a supply depot for the Red River settlement and the surrounding Cree, Anishinabe, Métis, and European (mostly Orkney Scot) populations.
		Between May and September, costumed interpreters recreate life at Lower Fort Garry in the early 1850s when Eden Colvile was inland governor of the HBC and in residence at the fort.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lower_Fort_Garry (1068 words)

	Fort Garry. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Fort Garry, 2 trading posts of the Hudson’s Bay Company, built on the present-day site of Winnipeg, Man., Canada, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.
		The 1st, Upper Fort Garry, was built in 1822 on the site of Fort Gibralter, a post of the North West Company from 1809 to 1816.
		Damaged by flood, it was replaced by Lower Fort Garry (1831–1833) farther down on the Red R. Upper Fort Garry was rebuilt in 1835 and became the center of the Red R. fur trade.
	www.bartleby.com /69/56/F02356.html (153 words)

	Fort Garry, Lower
		Lower Fort Garry was built 30 km down the Red River from Fort Garry [Winnipeg] during the 1830s as the HUDSON'S BAY CO's administrative centre for RUPERT'S LAND.
		It was hoped that the lower fort would be free from the spring flooding that beset the older community and would house a more respectable class of citizen.
		During the Oregon crisis (see OREGON TREATY) in the 1840s, a British army contingent was stationed at the fort; in 1871 some opponents of Louis RIEL rallied around Stoughton Dennis there; and during the winter of 1873-74 the NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE trained its first recruits at the fort.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002939 (297 words)

	Fort Garry - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Fort Garry two trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company, built on the present-day site of Winnipeg, Man., Canada, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.
		The first, Upper Fort Garry, was built in 1822 on the site of Fort Gibralter, a post of the North West Company from 1809 to 1816.
		Upper Fort Garry was rebuilt in 1835 and became the center of the Red River fur trade.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-fortgarr.html (203 words)

	A Short Pictorial History On Upper Ft. Garry
		Sadly, all that remains of this magnificent fort is the North Gate.
		After the flood of 1826 when the original Fort Garry was demolished, Govenor George Simpson (later to be Governor of Ruperts Land), for politcal reasons, decided to rebuild the fort downstream and in 1831 built Lower Fort Garry at its present location near Selkirk, Manitoba.
		By 1853, the fort was proving to be too small for the increasing trade and it was extended to the north.
	www.lpgallery.mb.ca /fort_garry (721 words)

	Upper and Lower Fort Garry
		The upper fort, which is now Winnipeg's downtown (just south of Broadway at Main Street) was built in 1836.
		The lower fort was built in 1840 and is about 32 kilometers downstream from the upper fort.
		Lower Fort Garry is fully operational during the summer months and is a joy to observe the workings of an old world fort.
	www.winterpeg.com /Town/Up_Low_Fort_Garry.htm (244 words)

	Fort Garry, Lower
		Le Lower Fort Garry est construit sur la rivière Rouge, à 30 km en aval de fort Garry (Winnipeg), entre 1830 et 1840, pour servir de centre administratif de la COMPAGNIE DE LA BAIE D'HUDSON (CBH), dans la TERRE DE RUPERT.
		Lower Fort Garry, 1830-1832 (avec la permission de Parcs Canada/lieu historique national de Lower Fort Garry/3913).
		Fort Garry est aujourd'hui l'un des principaux lieux historiques au Canada (avec la permission de la Commission canadienne du tourisme).
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=F0002939 (305 words)

	Fort Vancouver NHS: Historic Structures Report (Chapter 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		At Lower Fort Garry, even though the oblong magazine has a vaulted brick ceiling, it is covered on the outside with a gabled, wood-frame roof.
		At Cumberland House and Lower Fort Garry the exposed wood surfaces at and under the eaves are likewise covered with metal.
		At Fort Garry this was accomplished simply by wrapping the tin roofing under the edges of the roof.
	www.nps.gov /fova/hsr/hsr2-3a.htm (2196 words)

	Manitoba Forts
		A model of the fort is at the Sakeeng Museum in nearby Pine Falls.
		In 1870 it became the headquarters for the District of Assiniboia, and was garrisoned by the Canadian Militia until 1871.
		Fort Douglas (undetermined location) was the main stockade of the colony, and was attacked by the Métis in 1816.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/mb.html (808 words)

	Rural Municipality of St Andrews, Manitoba
		Lower Fort Garry, or “the stone Fort’, as it was referred to historically, is western Canada’s major historic site.
		Lower Fort Garry was actively involved in the volatile political atmosphere of Red River, and from 1846 to 1848 soldiers were quartered there during the free trade crisis, and again in 1870 after the Rid resistance.
		By 1865, the Lower Fort had become an economic force in the St. Andrew’s area, as an industrial complex south of the fort contained a boat building yard, flsmith shop, lime kiln, brewery and grist mill.
	www.rmofstandrews.com /dyk.asp?ID=13 (464 words)

	Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Lower Fort Garry, located near Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a stone fort built by the Hudson’s Bay Company in the 1830s.
		French-speaking revolutionaries seized control of the fort in 1869 during the Red River Rebellion.
	encarta.msn.com /media_701665651/Lower_Fort_Garry_Manitoba.html (43 words)

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		At the fort, he familiarized himself with European ways while insisting on his prerogatives as the leader of a loose Lushootseed confederacy.
		Fort Vancouver was a 19th century fur trading outpost along the Columbia River that served as the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Oregon Country.
		Despite the damage to the fort from the French occupation, and the hardships of the climate he succeeded in rebuilding the company's business, and in 1719 it paid its first dividend for 20 years.
	www.lycos.com /info/hudsons-bay-company--fort-vancouver.html?page=3 (491 words)

	Lower Fort Garry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In 1837 the original Upper Fort was reconstructed as the Hudson’s Bay Company’s trading and administrative operation.
		Lower Fort Garry became the fur trade provision, shipment, and retail centre for the Red River settlement.
		Soldiers were quartered at Lower Fort Garry from 1846 to 1848 during the free trade crisis and also after the Rid resistance in 1870.
	www.acornminiatures.com /Heritage_Library/hl_lower_fort_garry.htm (222 words)

	Fort Garry, Upper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Upper Fort Garry is situated at the forks of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in the heart of the Red River Colony.
		This fort was seized by Louis Riel during the RED RIVER REBELLION of 1870.
		With the decline of the fur trade and the growth of Winnipeg, Fort Garry virtually disappeared.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0002940 (111 words)

	York Boat on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		Fort Garry is on the edge of Winnipeg and I didn't see this boat on it.
		Lower Fort Garry is 50 km upstream from Winnipeg along the Red River, close to the town of Selkirk.
		Also, the Fort Garry you're talking about is not on the edge of the city anymore, hasn't been for 60 years or so; it is a relatively central suburban neighbourhood in Winnipeg.
	www.flickr.com /photo.gne?id=32767544 (547 words)

	A Short Pictorial History On Upper Ft
		Meanwhile the lower fort was used for a variety of things.
		The fort is now one of Parks Canada's flagship historic sites, but over the years it has also been a penitentiary, and insane asylum, a HBC residence and a country club.
		The HBC owned the fort until 1951, when it was given to the federal government.
	members.shaw.ca /rayandliz/fortgarry.htm (912 words)

	Fort Garry — FactMonster.com
		Fort Garry, two trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company, built on the present-day site of Winnipeg, Man., Canada, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.
		The first, Upper Fort Garry, was built in 1822 on the site of Fort Gibralter, a post of the North West Company from 1809 to 1816.
		Upper Fort Garry was rebuilt in 1835 and became the center of the Red River fur trade.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0819237.html (130 words)

	Upper Fort Garry, Lionel Macdonald Stephenson 1869
		This fort is called Upper Fort Garry to distinguish it from a later one built lower down the Red River towards Lake Winnipeg which was called Lower Fort Garry even though it was on higher ground than the Upper Fort above which inconveniently flooded when the Red River topped up.
		Found - Winnipeg, MB The Fort Garry Gate: The north gate of Old Fort Garry is all that remains of the vast stone walled complex that was Fort Garry when Lionel painted it for the Canadian soldiers that swarmed all over the place there in 1870.
		The stone construction techniques used in frontier forts are evident on the Fort Garry Gate, brought west by Scottish employees of the Hudson's Bay Company with their long traditions of stone construction in Scotland.
	www.goldiproductions.com /canada_site/art/art3_stephenson.html (2300 words)

	Information about Canada FDC: 34¢ Lower Fort Garry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		One such fort was Fort Garry which was built at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in 1821 on the site of the present day city of Winnipeg.
		In the 1840s British troops were posted at Lower Fort Garry as a precaution against the threat of American expansion.
		As strategic as Lower Fort Garry was, there was never a battle fought at the fort.
	www.unicover.com /EA4NC636.htm (444 words)

	Lower Fort Garry, Canada. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		However, the settlers round The Forks were reluctant to cart their produce down to the new camp and when the governors of Assiniboia refused to move here his scheme collapsed.
		Sandwiched between Hwy 9 and the Red River, Lower Fort Garry begins at the visitor reception centre, where there's a comprehensive account of the development of the fort and its role in the fur trade.
		A couple of minutes' walk away, the low, thick limestone walls of the fort protect reconstructions of several company buildings, including the retail store, where a small museum is devoted to Inuit and Indian crafts.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/canada/lower_fort_garry (330 words)

	Stonewall, Manitoba, Canada
		Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site is commemorated as the place where Treaty #1 was signed between the Ojibwa and Swampy Cree of Manitoba and the Crown.
		Lower Fort Garry is also commemorated for its role as a major agricultural and industrial supply centre in the fur trade of Western Canada.
		The surviving stone structures at Lower Fort Garry represent significant examples of early fur trade architecture.
	www.stonewall.ca /visitors/destination.asp (415 words)

	Intro: BMHC
		While the Orillia and Fort Maiden asylums were closed down when the London Asylum opened in 1870, the pressing need ; for more asylum facilities prompted the construction of an asylum in Hamilton in 1875, a second branch of the Toronto Asylum in Mimico in 1894 and the Brockville Asylum, also in 1894.
		With the establishment of a temporary penitentiary at Lower Fort Garry in 1871.
		The building was finally ready for occupation in May, 1886 and on the 25th, the patients, who had spent over a year at Lower Fort Garry were transferred to a permanent asylum for the insane.
	members.tripod.com /hillmans2002/introtxt.html (1923 words)

	Fort Garry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Council of Assiniboia, the administrative and judicial body of the Red River Settlement mainly run by HBC officials, met at Upper Fort Garry.
		Although only the main gate of the fort remains today, the name "Fort Garry" lives on through various institutions and businesses.
		An area or division of Winnipeg running along the Red River south of the original fort is called Fort Garry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Garry (417 words)

	Manitoba
		The stone walls and buildings of Lower Fort Garry are ancient reminders of the time when the Hudson's Bay Company governed half of present-day Canada.
		Begun in 1831, this fort is an oasis of gracious living on the edge of the Prairies and to gather food and ship it along the waterways of the northwest.
		Lower Fort Garry is staffed from May until September each year with costumed interpreters.
	www.militarytour.com /Battlefields/Canada/Manitoba.htm (704 words)

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		Reduction, in chemistry, the shift of an electron or electrons towards an atom or ion away from another atom or ion.
		It lies on the coast of the English Channel with the regions of Upper Normandy to the...
		Lower Mantle, part of the interior of the Earth, about 2,300 km (1,430 mi) thick.
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