Fort Garry became Winnipeg, and there were soon indications that it was destined to be a great city, and the commercial doorway to the vast prairies that lay beyond.
The departmental stores and offices of the Hudson's Bay Company and its Fort Garry court, which stand on Main Street South, are worthy of that ancient company.
Johnson, R.N., showed from experiments in the iron steamship "Garry Owen" that the vessel acted on an external compass as a magnet.
It lies on the left bank of the Tummel, a little below the confluence of that river and the Garry, 350 ft.
But there are also several important transverse valleys, those of the Garry and Tay being the most conspicuous examples.