road trip     

Lower Fort Garry was built by the Hudson Bay Trading Company in anticipation of trouble with the Native Americans living in the area. The trouble never materialized, not a shot was ever fired rom this fort.

Actually known as The Big House, for the governor, postmaster, etc. and their wives and the servants. The children? Usually at boarding school.
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None of these were ever used in battle, none was ever fought. But the stonework! Two lime kilns were nearby, long gone.
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For baking hardtack, lots of hardtack.
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Detail of one of the baking ovens.

The staff lived and worked "downstairs." Scullery maid was the only one with a contract, and her job included 1) making sure all sixteen fireplaces stayed burning and 2) emptying and cleaning all the chamber pots and commode chairs.