Fort Dauphin
The first Fort Dauphin was built in 1741 at the mouth of the Mossey River on Lake Winnipegosis (today in Winnipegosis) with Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye, the western French military commander, directing construction. The area provided a post located between the Assiniboine River and the Saskatchewan River. It was named for the Dauphin prince of France.
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This site was reused by John Best of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in the winter of 1795-1796. A second Fort Dauphin was built in 1767 on the north shore of Dauphin Lake, so both the fort and the lake had the same name. This fort was built by French fur traders after the era of the western military commanders. In 1817, the HBC established a post on the west side of Dauphin Lake, known as Dauphin, Fort Dauphin, or Dauphin Lake House. Two years later, it was moved closer to a North West Company (NWC) post on the lake. After the HBC and NWC merged in 1821, the HBC only kept the former NWC post in operation, but that one was also closed 3 years later to allow animal populations to recover. Afterwards, the location saw only sporadic use from 1827 to circa 1831, and from circa 1867 to circa 1870. The site at Winnipegosis was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1943.
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• Name — Fort Dauphin • Location — Winnipegosis, Manitoba • Type — Fort • Built — 1741 • Materials — Wood • In Use — 1741-? • Controlled By — France, Canada Fort Dauphin was the name of two forts in Manitoba.
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- 1.Archives of Manitoba - Keystone Archives Descriptive Database. Hudson's Bay Company: Fort Dauphin. pam.minisisinc.com.
- 2.DFHD 157 Fort Dauphin 20 May 2012
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