This weekend will be tons of fun with Pine Fort Days at Spruce Woods! Here's a little bit of its history...

 

"Situated on the trade route along the Assiniboine River where the route branches southward to the Missouri, Pine Fort was strategically located for securing furs from the Cree, Ojibway, and Assiniboine as well as buffalo robes, horses and corn from the Mandans. As a North West Company post it also developed into a pemmican and trade goods depot supplying posts in the Assiniboine and Souris valleys. Competition with the Hudson’s Bay Company and disruption of Native trade alliances led to declining trade and forced the abandonment of Pine Fort on all three occasions."

- Excerpt from http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/pinefort.shtml

 

There will be no shortage of activities for the whole family there this weekend! Here's the schedule with more information.

Here's the location according to Google Maps: 

 

 

Amber Blume just so happened to be there last weekend and shared a picture with us of Pine Fort from a Bridge over the Assiniboine River: