Fort Ellice, a Hudson's Bay Company post, was built near the junction of the Assiniboine and Qu'Appelle rivers in 1831. This placed it just east of the present-day Manitoba-Saskatchewan border. The Hudsons Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie dHudson in French) is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and is one of the oldest in the world. ... Junction of the Assiniboine and Red rivers in downtown Winnipeg. ... The QuAppelle River is a river which flows 430 km east from Lake Diefenbaker in southwestern Saskatchewan to join the Assiniboine River in Manitoba. ...
It was an important fort, being a major stopping point on the Carlton Trail, which ran from the Red River settlement to Fort Edmonton. (The section leading from Upper Fort Garry to this district was commonly known as the Fort Ellice Trail.) The Carlton Trail was the primary land transportation route connecting the various parts of the Canadian Northwest for most of the 19th Century. ... The Red River Colony was a colonization project set up by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk in 1811 on 300 000 km² of land granted to him by the Hudsons Bay Company under what is referred to as the Selkirk Concession. ... Fort Edmonton, circa 1900. ... Upper Fort Garry in the early 1870s Fort Garry also known as Upper Fort Garry was a Hudsons Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg. ...
A second, more elaborate, structure was built in 1862 by the HBC but its economic life was short-lived as the Company relinquished control of the north west with the 1870 Deed of Surrender. This deed transferred many HBC rights to the new national government.
The fort had one more important role to play in history; it acted as a staging point for part of the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) force that was headed west in 1874 to establish law and order in what are now the Canadian prairie provinces. The fort acted as a NWMP post beginning in 1875. Mountie redirects here. ...
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