Fort La Reine

Fort La Reine was built in 1738 and is one of the forts of the western expansion directed by Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Verendrye, first military commander in the west of that is now known as Canada. Situated on the Assiniboine River where present day Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, stands, the fortress filled in as a hide exchanging post. It was likewise the base of activities for much investigation north and west. From Fort La Reine, wayfarers advanced toward Lake Manitoba and Lake Winnipegosis, Lake Winnipeg and the Saskatchewan River.

Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye, the most youthful La Verendrye child, drove endeavors from Fort La Reine and manufactured the accompanying western establishments in what is currently Manitoba: Fort Dauphin, Fort Bourbon, and Fort Paskoya. In 1743, the fortification was likewise the beginning stage for an investigation of the upper Missouri River to the extent the Yellowstone River. One old source says that the fortification was singed to the ground by the Assiniboines after the French had abandoned it in 1752. Today there is a gallery named after the first fortress situated in Portage la Prairie, MB. There is a reproduction of Fort la Reine on the Museum likewise ious different structures covering neighborhood history from the season of La Verendrye and flow day.