Thirty-two years later, an English writer for the London Daily Bulletin toured the city and stumbled upon what remained of the historic landmarks. He wrote; “Then you stroll out to this very everyday twentieth century place and follow the street a little further, till you observe something standing alone on your right— a tiny building of rough stone. It is not twelve feet high, and you have seen bigger and better building put up to stable two or three horses.”

The English writer was able to encapsulate the significance of what he saw and place fort into an historical context, more so than local residents, who allowed the “tiny building” to diminish in importance through indifference.

Yet the photos of it have met you at every corner of the own, and you stand and gaze at this old relic— this one bit of history in this world of newness— Fort Garry, the nucleus from which Manitoba’s,metropolis roaring around you has sprung: Fort Garry, the old headquarters of the great Hudson’s Bay Company you have just left; Fort Garry, the destination and crown of Lord Wolseley, he put down the Red River rebellion under Louis Riel in 1870.

It was this English traveler who wistfully gazed upon what had been and commented: “Modern commercialism and the Philistine allurements of land-gambling, have, alas! Caused the pulling down of the greater part of the old fort, so that all one sees is little beyond the gateway. Sentiment woke when it was too late, and now Winnipeg mourns forever the act of vandalism she permitted in her midst.”

In 1883, the east wall was demolished to straighten out Main Street. By the fall of 1886, four of the largest structure still standing on the old fort site were sold at auction by HBC for just $292. The former Governors House, home to Manitoba’s first lieutenant-governor, netted a paltry $100 as firewood.

What remained- the gate and the land it stood on were given as gift to the city by the HBC in 1897 “as a public park forever”. But more years of neglect followed, and the gate became an isolated and forlorn reminder that the fort had once been the focal point of the Red River Settlement founded by Lord Selkirk; the sire of Louis Riel’s provisional government during 1869-70; as well as where the founding of a new province within Canada was first envisioned.

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            It could be said at the time  that these most dramatic events followed months and months of the most tense of negotiations.   On December 10 , 1869 Riel with the help of close associates , Ambroise-Dydime , Lepine and W.B. ODonoghue , hoisted the flag of the “Provisional Government”  of the pole in center square of Fort Garry.    In design the standard of the new assembly is a fleur-de-lis on a full white backgrounnd.

              Riel now held the then colony’s only effective government.  While at the time , some experienced and noted political and historical observerers , doubted that he had a strong foundation for an administration there was no question what so ever that Louis Riel had met his first and primary objective – that of keeping “Canada”  from establishing William McDougall as the government of the territory which would of been simply “annexed “  by Eastern Canada.

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In silencing the Nor’Wester , Riel had effectively served to shut down all principal means of public communication.  It had been noted that in those recent editions , of the time (November – December 1869) that the newspaper itself could be said to have met with some success in creating what some said was a historical breach between the English and French-Canadian groups and camps in the Manitoba regions.  The final edition of the Nor’Wester newpaper appeared November 24 , 1869.

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IT’S WINTER IN MANITOBA

AND THE GENTLE BREEZES BLOW

SEVENTY MILES AN HOUR

AT THIRTY-FIVE BELOW

OH HOW I LOVE MANITOBA

WHEN THE SNOW’S UP TO YOUR BUTT

YOU TAKE A BREATH OF WINTER AIR

AND YOUR NOSE GETS FROZEN SHUT

YES, THE WEATHER HERE IS WONDERFUL

SO I GUESS I’LL HANG AROUND

I COULD NEVER LEAVE MANITOBA

CAUSE I’M FROZEN TO THE GROUND!!

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How to get a poem published in a newspaper – What’s potentially damaging for Gardiner isn’t the sentimental content of the poem, but rather a line at the end of it, which connects its author to the Bandidos, the world’s second-largest outlaw biker club, behind only the Hells …

above/ground press “poem” broadsides – Every few months, someone gets a look at a handful of the “poem” broadsides I’ve been producing through above/ground press and suggests that I should put them all into a book. Well, I think there are too many of the damn things out …

Epistolary Collage Prose-Poem Bonanza! – of the following five prose poems, collectively titled Imaginary Letters. The poem-letters are lexical experiments, and thus dear to my heart. They are also somewhat transgressive and perhaps even slightly scandalous. …

A Poem About Canada…… – Oh! Canada, of forests green and. rocky mountains high with maple leaf, your flags unfurled, as Mounties passing by. Salute the Queen of England and your capital, Ottawa. “The Royal Canadian Mounted Police” enforce the federal law. …

victor schwartzman | with no cuteness… – What evil poetry have I written that entitles the Government to suspend me for three days because two poems were violent, and bullied my Executive Director and Manager of Compliance? And: “cute”. Do I write “cute”? …

Louis Riel’s final English poem unveiled – They brought the poems home, and they were unveiled Monday. “These are the last English words written by Riel and rarely did he write in English,” federation president David Chartrand told a packed hall, beaming with pride as he spoke. …

Canadian Identity Poem – Could It Be Canada is a country full of heart But what is it that sets us apart? Could it be British Columbia’s calm waters and rocky mountain tops, Or perhaps it’s the breathtaking Pacific where British Columbia stops. …

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