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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]
May 31, 2018 · The Forks is a public space where the Red and Assiniboine rivers meet in the heart of what is now the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. It occupies the waterfront zone east of Main Street and south of the CN mainline rail bridge. The Forks has played a complex role in the history of the region and of Canada as a whole.
The following timeline details the successful rebirth of the site as one of Winnipeg’s most important landmarks and illustrates the changes at The Forks over the years. The Forks 6,000 years ago. Extensive archaeological investigations prove that Aboriginal groups were active at The Forks site thousands of years ago.
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The Forks’ setting is a meeting of two very different geographic regions—the vast plains and parklands to the west and the extensive boreal forest to the north and east. 1 The physical geography of The Forks, situated on a floodplain, over limestone bedrock is an important part of its story.
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.
Contact The Forks National Historic Site. General inquiries: Phone number: 1-888-773-8888 (toll free) Phone number: 204-927-7874 Email address: manitoba@pc.gc.ca. For emergencies within the national historic site: Phone number: 911
