Historic Places of the Red River Primer

1
Historic Places of the Red River Primer

• Rivers West
• Manitoba Historic Resources
• Historic Places Initiative

Rivers West
2
If the Red River could talk,it would tell us
many stories

• Great events have happened along the Red River
• Like four Grey Nuns arriving at midnight at their
  new home on the river in 1844.

3
Some events we remember

• Like the help Chief Peguis gave the early
  settlers.

PAM
4
Some events are lost in time.

• What great events took place at the Forks when
  the First Nations from across the land met there
  thousands of years ago?

5
Historic Places save the stories

• We have lost our oldest history along the Red
  River, but we can save the most recent stories by
  protecting historic places.

6
What are Historic Places?

• Historic places come in many shapes and styles.
• They can be a park where a homestead once stood.

Lagimodière Gaboury Park
7
What are Historic Places?

• They can be forts with great walls around them...

Lower Fort Garry
PAM
8
What are Historic Places?

• or forts with no walls.

PAM
PAM
Fort Dufferin 1874
9
What are Historic Places?

• They can be places where battles occurred.

Battle of Seven Oaks
PAM
10
What are Historic Places?

• They can be places where treaties were signed,

Signing Treaty One, LFG
PAM
11
What are Historic Places?

• or rights protected and a province born.

PAM
Upper Fort Garry
PAM
12
What are Historic Places?

• They are places we find old bones and dried corn,
  telling the story of our first farmers,

Kenosewun
HRB
13
What are Historic Places?

• or places that tell stories of todays farmers.

HRB
HRB
Mennonite housebarn on the West Reserve
14
What are Historic Places?

• They are places where we worship,

HRB
St. Andrews Church
HRB
St. Peter, Dynevor Old Stone Church
15
What are Historic Places?

• then and now.

St. Boniface Cathedral
16
What are Historic Places?

• They are places great explorers lived,

PAM
Captain Kennedy House
HRB
17
What are Historic Places?

• gateways through which tens of thousands poured
  to find a new life,

Canadian Pacific Railway Station
18
What are Historic Places?

• and theatres where people went to be entertained.

Walker Theatre
19
What are Historic Places?

• They are the first skyscrapers in Canada,

Union Bank Bldg, Exchange District
Stan Milosevic
20
What are Historic Places?

• or several blocks in the centre of the city -
  used for movie sets today.

Exchange District, 1944
HRB
21
What are Historic Places?

• They are one of a kind or biggest in the
  world.

St. Andrews Lock Dam
HRB
22
What are Historic Places?

• Historic places are many things.
• They tell us about our past and show us a better
  way to the future.
• Their stories bring our history to life.

Parks Canada
23
Ours to Protect

• Historic places are great to
• Discover
• Explore
• Learn from
• And protect for our children!

Parks Canada
24
Explore the Historic Places of the Red River!

• Historic Places of the Red River - Vol. I II
• Fun activities for Grades 4 to 6
• Field trips to 19 historic places