Next month, about 80 members of the Manitoba Living History Society will erect a tent town just outside Fort Gibraltar in Whittier Park to show Winnipeggers what life was like for pioneers in the early 19th century.
I love it. It's what I wanted to see," said De Wit, a trained school teacher from Holland visiting cousins in Winnipeg. Finally, the site froze, and then a good snow cover fell over top. "If it hadn't snowed, the park would have been like a skating rink," he said. "Europeans are often skittish about fur, but then they were the reason we were trapping back then in the first place," [Jean-Luc LaFleche] said.
Specifically, juggling the demands of a busy career with the need for some down time and my love of vacations-as anyone who knows me knows," she says. "I am perpetually thinking of my next vacation, though the next big one may well be more than a year off!" (Barb and her husband are seasoned travellers, having visited the Tar East, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Seville, and Gibraltar.
A confrontation between the fur trade companies in the Fur Trade War from 1814 to 1817 ended with the consolidation of the two concerns in 1821. The NWC post, Fort Gibraltar, at the mouth of the Assiniboine (not where the modern replica is located in St. Boniface), was destroyed by HBC Governor Robert Semple in 1816 and the logs used to bolster the HBC post, Fort Douglas. After the consolidation, the HBC decided to move to the Forks (from opposite Point Douglas) to the preferred site of the destroyed Fort Gibraltar (NWC) and they built the first Fort Garry in 1822 as the main HBC post in Winnipeg. This first edition of Fort Garry had a wooden palisade and was also known as Fort Gibraltar after its NWC predecessor. Being poorly constructed of wooden logs, this first Fort Garry suffered ...
Another new activity she describes as "absolutely cool" is a giant ceinture flechee that will be gradually woven out of red, yellow, green, blue and white ropes. Interpreters will teach visitors how to do a "simplified weave" of the ropes, which will hang from one of the towers at Fort Gibraltar, the park's replica trading post. Taking a hint from Folklorama, and aided by funding from the federal government's Economic Action Plan, the festival has established a new 300-seat heated tent called the Poste Pambian at Voyageur Park. It's particularly targeted at tour groups and you must have an advance ticket to enter. The Festival du Voyageur runs Friday to Feb. 21. Last year's 40th annual festival drew 105,000 visitors, up from 95,000 the previous year. That includes attendance at "tradin...
The modernity of the nation's many five-star hotels slams up against a land where history is measured in thousand-year blocks. The nation's predominantly Muslim population lives side-by-side with its smaller Christian and Jewish populations. European influences from Spain -- just across the Strait of Gibraltar -- nicely weave with African roots. Sofitel Palais Jamai Fes: previously a residence of a Grand Vizier (a sultan's greatest minister), this sprawling hotel complex comes with a gorgeous view of the medina with the hills beyond, a fragrant rose garden, a first-class spa and hamman and one of the best steaks I've eaten -- a welcome change after a steady diet of Moroccan food -- cooked by a chef who has spent time in Quebec. http://www.sofitel.com/sofitel/fichehotel/gb/sof/2141/fiche...
I've been attending this festival since I was a very little girl and I will continue to volunteer because this is absolutely my favourite time of year," St. Boniface MP Shelly Glover said as she announced the funding Friday at Fort Gibraltar. She said the $700,000 is "the highest level of funding ever provided to the Festival du Voyageur by any level of government since its inception. "We went down there, created a show. We served some maple taffy on snow and little maple candies and we promoted festival," [Josee Vaillancourt] said, adding the promotion was well-received. The festival hopes to do more of that with some of the money it received Friday.
We have been sent to this flamenco performance by Fernando, the owner of our Hostal Alcazar. Fernando speaks little English, but is fluent in facial expressions and dramatic gestures. His eloquence is reminiscent of the great Italian comedian Roberto Benigni. "Go, go," enthused Fernando. "You will see beautiful dance. Cordoba is a city of many centuries," the birthplace of the Roman philosopher Seneca and the Jewish scholar Maimonides, he said. As the cab turned a corner, he pointed to a small square. "Here are the columns of Roman houses." We flew to southern Spain from London, arriving at Gibraltar. Flights are available to Spanish cities from London or other European destinations, and Air Transat is flying a charter service, May 5 to Oct. 29, from Montreal to Malaga, on the Mediter...
Looking at a map of Winnipeg from 1885 one will see that from Main Street and Broadway to Point Douglas, there existed a precinct of five forts associated with the fur trade. Upper Fort Garry sat angled across what is now Main Street in a southeastern-facing rectangular shape. Across the Assiniboine was Fort Rouge, located right on the nose of the land that bisects the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Sitting on the land where The Forks is now located were two forts -- the original Fort Garry and Fort Gibraltar. Fort Douglas was located a little farther north on the river's edge of what is now Point Douglas. If you lived in Winnipeg in the 18th and 19th centuries, this was the Times Square of the fur trade! And it was a time full of keen entrepreneurial spirit. The original Fort Gibraltar wa...
I have a passion for history and it's a great job," [Alain Vouriot], 28, said as he stood waiting Saturday afternoon, Day 2 of the festival, at Festival Park. "I was given the opportunity to do this job and I was excited to do it and I've been doing it for seven years. "I'm still developing the character but so far, he is Guillaume, the son of a voyageur originally from Quebec who married a local native woman," Vouriot said. "His father was an interpreter so he decides to be one too." "I'm a history nut and I try to get to all the forts in Canada," [Bonnie Esson] said. Fort Gibraltar "is a great fort. Everything here is laid out so well."
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