About to enter Upper Fort Garry, the birthplace of Manitoba.
Yesterday, we had an amazing and hopefully educative experience where we were able to walk throughout downtown Winnipeg and engage in the pursuit of several important questions. The first question we are tackling has two parts: firstly, who were the Métis, and secondly, who are the Métis in 2015? To help us with this, we have been reading Joseph Boyden’s Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont and Katherena Vermette’s North End Love Songs. She will be joining us in person on Thursday.
Our next line of questioning has to do with two of the historical thinking concepts; that of historical significance an continuity and change. Throughout your walk, where we visited the Forks, Upper Fort Garry, the St. Boniface Museum, and the Winnipeg Railway Museum, what has changed? What has remained the same? How fast was this change and why?
Who were the Métis? At the St. Boniface Museum
As well, we saw several plaques and interpretive signs. How did the creators of these signs establish historical significance and do you agree?
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The Countess of Dufferin — The first steam locomotive in the Northwest, circa 1877.
Henderson Hallway 