Collection search - A View of the Post Dog Trains Leaving Fort Garry for St. Paul

Fort Garry was established in 1822 as a Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) trading post at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now Winnipeg. Fort Garry served as the centre of fur trade within the Red River Colony. It was renamed Upper Fort Garry in 1835 to differentiate it from "the Lower Fort," or Lower Fort Garry, established in 1831. Upper Fort Garry was central to the administration of the HBC and the surrounding settlement. The Council of Assiniboia, the administrative and judicial body of the Red River Colony met at Upper Fort Garry. The fort was seized by Louis Riel and his Métis followers during the Red River Rebellion (Red River Resistance). The majority of the fort was demolished in 1881-1884.
Winnipeg was incorporated on November 8, 1873. Previous to that date, it was called Fort Garry.

Colour transparency available

Exhibition Title: William Armstrong: Art and Enterprise, Watercolour Paintings of New Ontario 1822-1914. Curators: Janet Clark, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario; 1996.01.19 - 1996.03.17. Further Venue: Glenbow Museum: 1996.05.04-1996.08.04., Exhibition title: Focus series - Pulling Their Weight: Dog Teams in Indigenous and Canadian Art. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2021.09.01 - 2022.03.01.

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, recto, diagonal, l.r.: W.Armstrong / 1901