Fort Douglas (Canada)

Fort Douglas was a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC ) in the vicinity of present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Fort Douglas was built in 1812 as part of the creation of the Red River settlement at the mouth of the Assiniboine in the Red River in the immediate vicinity of Fort Gibraltar competitor's North West Company ( NWC ). The Red River Settlement was a project of HBC CEO Thomas Douglas (usually called Lord Selkirk ), which here become landless Scottish farmers attempted to settle (see Highland Clearances ). The fort received from him his name and became the seat of the first governor of Assiniboia, Miles Macdonell.

As Macdonnell 1814, all exports of supplies from the Red River Settlement ban, called the Pemmican Proclamation, this was an open declaration of war against the NWC, which could not equip a single fur trading expedition under the circumstances. After the first seizures of pemmican NWC employees burned down along with the Métis, their pemmican suppliers, Fort Douglas. It was rebuilt but in the known as Pemmican War confrontation in 1816 burned down a second time, and never rebuilt.