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Lower Fort Garry was a major business site for all in the Red River Settlement. Besides outfitting farmers and trappers with their yearly supplies, the Aboriginal communities in the surrounding areas also conducted much business with the Hudson's Bay Company. Many Aboriginal people would trade their leather goods, farmed crops and dried fish with the Company, and more still would work for the Company by taking part in the yearly buffalo hunts.
This continued well into the 1850s and 1860s, with many Aboriginal women working on the Company farms, and the men working the small fishery on the Red River.
In 1871, Treaty #1 was signed at Lower Fort Garry, and a plaque commemorating this treaty has been placed outside the West Gate of the Fort.
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