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The Forks (French: La Fourche) is a historic site, meeting place, and green space in downtown Winnipeg located at the confluence of the Red River and the Assiniboine River. The Forks was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1974 due to its status as a cultural landscape that had borne witness to six thousand years of human activity. [1]
Located at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, The Forks (also known as Nestawaya in Cree) has been a meeting place for over 6,000 years – located on the original lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Lakota peoples and resides in the homeland of the Red River Métis.
As the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Canadian West it would become the cradle of the province of Manitoba and the nucleus of the city of Winnipeg. As early as 4000 B.C.E., long before European explorers arrived here, this was a traditional native peoples' stopping place.
Jul 15, 2023 · The Forks, located where the Red and Assiniboine Rivers meet, has been a meeting place for over 6000 years. It has a storied history, but over the last 30 years, the city and province has turned this place into one of the province’s foremost destinations for tourists and locals alike.
Learn about the early history of The Forks, the fur trade and railway eras and the transformation from an industrial site into Winnipeg's showcase destination.
The Forks ( French: La Fourche) is a historic site, meeting place, and green space in downtown Winnipeg located at the confluence of the Red River and the Assiniboine River.
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The Forks National Historic Site of Canada is an area of publicly accessible land in the heart of the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba, comprised of areas known as the South Point and North Point situated on opposite sides of the Assiniboine River on the west bank of the Red River.
