Fort Dauphin, was built in 1741 near

Winnipegosis, Manitoba Winnipegosis is an unincorporated urban community in the Rural Municipality of Mossey River, Manitoba, Canada. It lies at the mouth of the Mossey River on Lake Winnipegosis The community was once categorized as a village, but this status was r ...

with Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye, the western military commander, directing construction. The area provided a post located between the

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and the

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. It was named for the Dauphin prince of

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. A second Fort Dauphin was built in 1767 on the north shore of

Lake Dauphin A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger ...

, so both the fort and the lake had the same name. This fort was built by French

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after the era of the western military commanders. As with many of the forts of the times, they kept the same names while changing locations to facilitate trade with the First Nations and to secure better physical locations. The site at Winnipegosis was designated a

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in 1943.

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* * * 1741 establishments in the French colonial empire Dauphin Dauphin National Historic Sites in Manitoba Hudson's Bay Company forts {{Fort-stub