In 1738 Sieur Louis Damours de Louvieres, built Fort Rouge on he Assiniboine River for La Vérendrye. La Vérendrye and his sons, Louis-Joseph and Francois, proceeded further west on the Assiniboine and constructed Fort La Reine. The fort seems to have had a primary purpose as a depot and was abandoned by 1749. Events February 4 - Court Jew Joseph Suss Oppenheimer is executed in Württenberg April 15 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. ... Junction of the Assiniboine and Red rivers in downtown Winnipeg. ... Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (November 17, 1685 – December 5, 1749) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer. ... Fort La Reine, one of the forts of the Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye western expansion, was built in 1738. ...

A new commandant of the French western forts, Saint-Pierre, spent the winter of 1752-1753 at the Forks, and likely rebuilt Fort Rouge at its original location. Much research points to this site being on the north bank of the Assiniboine near the forks altough some scholars place the original fort on the south bank.

Near this location, trading-posts were built by Bruce and Boyer in 1780 and by Alexander Henry (the younger) in 1803, as well as Fort Gibraltar in 1807. not to be confused with Alexander Henry (the elder) d. ... In the early 19th century fur-trading was the main industry of Western Canada. ...

External links

• (http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/transactions/3/verendryes.shtml)

• (http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/24/frenchpresence.shtml)