Historic Sites of Manitoba: Fort Gibraltar (Whittier Park, Winnipeg)

A reconstructed Fort Gibraltar fur trade post, located in Winnipeg’s Whittier Park, was built in the late 1970s. A brass plaque on an exterior wall of the palisade, bearing text in French, English, Ojibwe, Cree, Dakota, and Michif, acknowledges that the fort is located on the lands of the Anishinaabe, Ininew, and Dakota peoples and on the homeland of the Metis nation. It was put here by the Festival du Voyageur Inc.

Fort Gibraltar

Fort Gibraltar (January 2014)
Source: George Penner

Fort Gibraltar

Fort Gibraltar (February 2015)
Source: George Penner

Land acknowledgement plaque at Fort Gibraltar

Land acknowledgement plaque at Fort Gibraltar (March 2023)
Source: Glen Toews

Site Location (lat/long): N49.89935, W97.12572
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Fort Gibraltar I, Violence at the Forks and Red River Settlement Plaques (The Forks, Winnipeg)

Sources:

We thank Glen Toews for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by George Penner.

Page revised: 21 March 2023

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