[3] The Hudson's Bay Company deeded the land to Joseph Hill who arrived at Red River of the North in 1849 with a Pensioner Regiment.

Hearing of Hill's death, the property was sold to Francis Evans Cornish, the first mayor of Winnipeg.

In the early 1880s, Hill returned to Winnipeg, and reestablished his ownership of the land before selling it to a speculators' syndicate in April 1881 for $28,000.

Flanking three entrances to the Winnipeg neighbourhood, they are nearly identical construction, built of stone and wrought-iron, and of Classical Revival style.

[11] (For census data, Statistics Canada places Armstrong's Point as part of the Downtown community area).