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Hudson's Bay Company forts in Manitoba (7 P) Pages in category "Hudson's Bay Company trading posts in Manitoba" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Riding Mountain House was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post set up to the south of what is now the Riding Mountain National Park, on the Little Saskatchewan River. It was built in 1860 and maintained until 1895, by which time there was little remaining trade in furs. [1] [2] It was near modern-day Elphinstone, Manitoba.
As early as 1832, the Hudson's Bay Company operated a settlement near present day Rolling River First Nation. [1] Additional settlement continued in the following decades around the Riding Mountain National Park area due to the teeming populations of fur bearing animals and was also a popular area for buffalo hunting by Indigenous peoples. [1]
Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation (Ojibwe: Gaa-wiikwedaawangaag) is an Ojibwa First Nation in Manitoba, Canada As of the 2016 Canadian Census , it had a population of 2,515; [ 1 ] while the First Nation's website reported a membership of 6,905 individuals as of December 2019.
These sand ridges sometimes called the Bedford Hills or Cyprus Hills, are the second highest point in Manitoba, behind Baldy Mountain. [ 1 ] Sandilands Provincial Forest is a mixed deciduous ‐ coniferous forest comprising dry sandy ridges of trembling aspen , jack pine , and white birch mixed with wetter lowlands of black spruce , tamarack ...
Springfield is a rural municipality (RM) in Manitoba, Canada. It stretches from urban industrial development on the eastern boundary of the city of Winnipeg, through urban, rural residential, agricultural and natural landscapes, to the Agassiz Provincial Forest on the municipality's eastern boundary.
Buffalo Point First Nation is an Ojibwa or Saulteaux First Nations located in the southeastern corner of Manitoba, along the shores of Lake of the Woods.It is bordered largely by the unorganized portion of Division No. 1, Manitoba, and also has smaller borders with the Rural Municipality of Piney, as well as the northeast corner of Roseau County, Minnesota.
The Interlake Region is an informal geographic region of the Canadian province of Manitoba that lies roughly between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The region comprises 14 rural municipalities , one city (the City of Selkirk ), five towns ( Arborg , Riverton , Stonewall , Teulon and Winnipeg Beach ) ,and ...