Fort Gibraltar

Fort Gibraltar was a North West Company trading post founded in 1809 by Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield near the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now Winnipeg. Built amid the fierce rivalry between the North West Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company during the fur trade era, it became caught up in the Pemmican War. In 1816, Red River Colony governor Robert Semple captured and destroyed the post, but it was rebuilt the next year after British authorities ruled the action illegal. After the companies merged in 1821, it was renamed Fort Garry, and its legacy continued through later rebuilding and historic designation.

Manitoba · Canada