Skip to content
Mixroutes
Historic trading post in present-day downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Fort Garry

Fort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post located at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in or near the area now known as The Forks in what is now central Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Fort Garry
Fort Garry · Jessloso
The place

Fort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post located at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in or near the area now known as The Forks in what is now central Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Fort Garry

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Tin Can Cathedral

    The Tin Can Cathedral was the first independent Ukrainian church in North America. It was the heart of the Seraphimite Church.

    2.7 km · first independent Ukrainian church in North America · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Canadian Museum for Human Rights

    The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is a Canadian Crown corporation and national museum located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, adjacent to The Forks. The purpose of the museum is to "explore the subject of human rights with a special but not exclusive reference to Canada, to enhance the public's understanding of human rights, to promote respect for others and to encourage reflection and dialogue." Established in 2008 through the enactment of Bill C-42, an amendment of The Museums Act of Canada, the CMHR is the first new national museum created in Canada since 1967, and it is Canada's first national museum ever to be located outside the National Capital Region.

    400 m · national museum · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    University of Winnipeg

    The University of Winnipeg is a public research university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It offers undergraduate programs in art, business, economics, education, science and applied health as well as graduate programs.

    1.3 km · university located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Winnipeg Art Gallery

    The Winnipeg Art Gallery is an art museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Its permanent collection includes over 24,000 works from Canadian, Indigenous Canadian, and international artists.

    1.1 km · art museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Université de Saint-Boniface

    The Université de Saint-Boniface is a French-language public university located in the St. Boniface neighbourhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

    1.1 km · university in Canada · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Saint Boniface Cathedral

    The Basilica of Saint Boniface is a Catholic cathedral in the St. Boniface ward of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

    1 km · church building in Manitoba, Canada · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Manitoba Legislative Building

    The Manitoba Legislative Building, originally named the Manitoba Parliament Building, is the meeting place of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, located in central Winnipeg, as well as being the twelfth provincial heritage site of Manitoba. Along with the Legislative Assembly, the building also accommodates the offices for Manitoba's Lieutenant Governor and the Executive Council.

    900 m · building in Manitoba, Canada · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Fort Garry Hotel

    The Fort Garry Hotel—officially the Fort Garry Hotel, Spa and Conference Centre—is an early-20th-century hotel in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, that opened for the first time on December 11, 1913. Built by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, it is one of Canada's grand railway hotels and the only surviving remnant from that era in Winnipeg.

    100 m · building in Manitoba, Canada · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Manitoba Hydro Place

    Manitoba Hydro Place is an office tower serving as the headquarters building of Manitoba Hydro, the electric power and natural gas utility in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Located at 360 Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg and connected to the Winnipeg Walkway system, Manitoba Hydro Place received LEED Platinum certification in May 2012, making it one of the most energy-efficient office towers in North America.

    900 m · skyscraper in Winnipeg, Canada · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St. Mary's Cathedral, Winnipeg

    St. Mary's Cathedral, a Catholic cathedral church located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

    700 m · Catholic cathedral in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Fort Garry

Airports
Winnipeg / James Armstrong Richardson (YWG), 8 km
Stations
Union Station, 100 m · Balmoral station, 1.3 km
  • Saskatoon → Fort Garry
    712 km · quickest by air, 4h 23m · C$160–250
  • Edmonton → Fort Garry
    1194 km · quickest by air, 6h 16m · C$250–390
  • Calgary → Fort Garry
    1203 km · quickest by air, 5h 16m · C$220–350
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Fort Garry

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Fort Garry. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundIn springtime (March and April), melting snow can create very large puddles and potholes and render off-road trails unusable.

From Wikivoyage: Winnipeg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,870 km
  2. 02
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    1,890 km
  3. 031,903 km
  4. 04
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,926 km
  5. 05
    Powell River and the upper Sunshine CoastCA

    12 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,952 km

If you know how people move in Fort Garry – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Fort Garry