Posted AT 4:46 AM EDT on 17/03/08
Battle raging over site of Riel's uprising
WINNIPEG — It's the site of a pivotal moment in Canadian history, where Louis Riel's provisional government launched the Red River Resistance of 1869 and where Riel ordered the execution of Thomas Scott the next year.
But today all that remains of Upper Fort Garry is a lonely, forgotten stone gate that sits between a gas station, a dilapidated curling club and an old civic building.
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