Motor Country Club Historic Photo Album

Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site

 

Visitors in suits and dresses gather on the lawn of Lower Fort Garry. Many are wearing brimmed hats. Some are seated and others are standing. A wide tent is seen in the background.

This beautiful photograph of a garden party at Lower Fort Garry illustrates how the fort had begun to take on some of the airs of a country club in 1909.
© Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba / HBCA 1987/363-L-24/11

 

A black vehicle is shown pulling up to a building at Lower Fort Garry.

The Earl and H.R.H. Alice were driven to Lower Fort Garry in a 1940 Nash, shown parked beside the Men’s House in 1942.
© Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba / HBCA 1987/363-L-24/21 / C.P. Wilson

 

A building at Lower Fort Garry is in the background. A gravel path in the foreground leads to the building. A small sign next to the path reads “PLEASE DRIVE SLOW (SPEED 4 MILES)”.

A sign on the Motor Country Club lawn cautions “PLEASE DRIVE SLOW (SPEED 4 MILES)”
© Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba / HBCA 1987/363-L-26/11b

 

A closeup of a large house with bushes in the garden in front of the porch.

The Big House as Club House, photographed in 1951.
© Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba / HBCA 1987/363-L-26/14

 

A paved path leads up to the steps of a large house. A child is playing on the railing on either side of the stairs.

Children sit atop the small cannons flanking the front doors of the Big House in 1933.
© Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba / HBCA 1987/363-L-26/41b

 

Five chairs are shown sitting on the grass in the shadow of a tree. A large house is seen in the background.

Tall trees and a covered veranda around the Big House provided shade to Motor Country Club members in the mid-1950s.
© Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba / HBCA 1987/363-L-26/55 / Campbell & Chipman

 

A gravel road is seen in the foreground, with a garden encircled in stones to the left of the road and a garden lining the right of the road. The back of a large house is seen in the background.

Formal gardens decorated the lawn behind the Big House in the mid-1950s.
© Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba / HBCA 1987/363-L-26/56c

 

Two square tables with white tablecloths are shown. Two chairs are at each table. A wooden sideboard with dishes and decorations atop it is shown at the right of the image.

The dining room in the Big House as it looked during the Motor Country Club days.
© Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba / HBCA 1987/363-L-27/8a

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