[3] Throughout the mid-to-late 19th century, Upper Fort Garry played a minor role in the actual trading of furs but 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 mainly run by Hudson's Bay Company officials, met at Upper Fort Garry.

Work has begun on a project to establish a heritage park in the area surrounding what remains of Upper Fort Garry.

In the spring of 2010, a bill passed the House in the Manitoba Legislature, entitled The Upper Fort Garry Heritage Provincial Park Act.

However, the Friends of Upper Fort Garry, a group dedicated to developing a historical interpretive park at the site, was convened to oppose them.

Two years later the City of Winnipeg approved the construction by Crystal Developers of a 25-storey apartment tower just west of the original location, on Assiniboine Ave.[10] The Friends raised enough funds to purchase the buildings already on the site of their proposed heritage park, including a Petro-Canada gas station.

[11] The only building that was allowed to stay untouched was the current home of the Manitoba Club,[12] which started as an organization in 1874,[13] only one year after the incorporation of Winnipeg.

[14] From the Hansard Records of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, dated Monday, June 14, 2010,[15] it is clear that the boundaries of the proposed Upper Fort Garry Provincial Heritage Park, described in Bill 27–The Upper Fort Garry Heritage Provincial Park Act then under consideration, would not include the Manitoba Club building.

Evidently, the Manitoba Club property on Broadway is excluded from the proposed heritage park, aside from being located on the same city block.