Fort Gibraltar

Fort Gibraltar was founded in 1809 by Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield[1] of the North West Company in present-day Manitoba, Canada.

About half a mile north the Selkirk settlers and HBC employees built Fort Douglas which was started in 1813 and completed in 1815.

(see Pemmican War) On March 17, 1816, Fort Gibraltar was captured and destroyed by Robert Semple, new Governor of the Red River Colony.

The action was ruled illegal by British authorities and the North West Company was given permission to rebuild the fort in 1817.

In the summer, the museum operates living history demonstrations of life in the fur trading post as in 1815.

Governor of Red River , Andrew Bulger , driving his family on the frozen Red River in a horse cariole with the fort now renamed Fort Garry in the background (winter of 1822-23)