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The Voyageurs of the North West Company were a highly mobile group of fur traders. They established temporary encampments in the forks region that later became Winnipeg . In 1809 the North West Company built Fort Gibraltar. The fort was erected in the vicinity of the Hudson's Bay Company's continental headquarters of Fort Douglas . It proved an irritant to the HBC for ten years. There were many conflicts between the British population of the Red River Valley and the NWC employees, who were mostly French-Canadians. On March 17 , 1816, Fort Gibraltar was captured and destroyed by Colin Robertson , a former NWC employee who became a leader of the Selkirk Colony . The capture was ruled illegal by British authorities and the North West Company was given permission to rebuild the fort in 1817. Before eventually being taken over by the Hudson's Bay Company, North West Company had 97 trading posts compared to the 84 in Manitoba that flew the Hudson's Bay Company standard. On March 26 , 1821, The North West Company was merged with its rival under the name of the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1987, the Hudson's Bay company sold what remained of the North West Company to investors based in Winnipeg. The investors revived the name of the North West Company. Today, the North West Company operates as a Winnipeg -based corporation and is one of the most successful retailers in Canada . HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF FORT GIBRALTAR
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