Lower Fort Garry

Lower Fort Garry is a historic trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC ) in Canada. It is the oldest preserved stone fort in North America. The Reservations Treaty Treaty 1 between Queen Victoria and representatives of the Cree and Chippewa was closed here.

Lower Fort Garry was built as a replacement for the original Fort Garry in 1831 after the latter was destroyed by a flood in 1826. But Lower Fort Garry proved for administrative purposes because of its distance to most of the settlements of the area to be unsuitable, and in 1836 replaced in its function reconstructed by the original Fort Garry, now on Upper Fort Garry, again. Due to its convenient location logistically Lower Fort Garry but was obtained from the HBC on. By 1951 Lower Fort Garry remained in the possession of the HBC, then it was the State of Canada passed.

1871 was closed in Lower Fort Garry, the first of eleven treaties between Queen Victoria and representatives of people living in southeastern Manitoba Cree and Chippewa. The Canada founded in 1867 ushered in a new colonization of the known as the Red River Settlement area after a first foundation was created in the year before as one of the Manitoba Act. The contract is called after the place of its signing and Stone Fort Treaty.