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This series highlights Canada's stunning parks and sites that protect the environment and showcases the various historic aspects of our country. Parks Canada protects and administers 37 national parks, 10 national park reserves, 171 (out of 1004) national historic sites, 5 national marine conservation areas, and one national urban park (as of 2023).
A bastion of history, Lower Fort Garry NHS (Manitoba) was first commemorated for its role in the signing of Treaty 1 between the seven chiefs of the Ojibwe and Swampy Cree First Nations and the federal government in 1871. Built in 1830 by the Hudson’s Bay Company as a trading post, the fort morphed into a penitentiary, psychiatric hospital, the Motor Country Club and finally an integral part of Manitoba's history. As part of the HBC, it was a focus for industry and transport, and a supply and distribution centre for the fur trade of the company's Northern Department. It is one of the finest collections of early stone buildings in western Canada, and in 1871 was used as the first training base for the North West Mounted Police. In 2021 Parks Canada expanded its Indigenous programming area with the construction of three new Indigenous structures: two 10’ x 10’ birch bark dwellings and one 12’ buffalo hide tipi. These additions increase the representation of temporary Indigenous dwellings on-site, and allows for more stories, culture and history to be shared from an Indigenous perspective.
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