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Fort Gibraltar
Take A Colourful & animated Voyage at Fort Gibraltar
>>Share in the joie de vivre of the voyageurs at historic Fort Gibraltar, a key North West Company fur trade
post in its original spot at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. Relocated to sunny St. Boniface,
in summer the Fort is a festive historical site featuring colourful characters and interpreters living to
the beat of 1815. Take a guided tour of the grounds, including replica workshops, winterer's cabin and
blacksmith's shop. www.fortgibraltar.com.
Born in Manitoba, Thomas George
"Tommy" Prince was one of eleven
children of Henry and Arabella
Prince of the Ojibw'e Nation at
the Brokenhead Reservation in
Scanterbury. He was a descendant of
the Indian Chief, Peguis, who led his
nation from Sault Ste. Marie to the
southern end of Lake Winnipeg in
the late 1790s.
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Fact
Get SChooled by Honoured
First Nations' Veteran
>>Sergeant Thomas Prince — Named after
Manitoba's most decorated First Nation war
veteran, this school on the Brokenhead
Ojibway Nation celebrates the distinguished
life and military career of Sgt. Thomas Prince,
an expert marksman who served with the
Royal Canadian Engineers and the 1st
Canadian Parachute Battalion in the Second
World War and the Korean War.
