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Seven Oaks House Museum

Seven Oaks House Museum is a Manitoba Heritage Council commemoration in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Manitoba · 50 Mac Street, Winnipeg · location approximate

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Seven Oaks House, built 1851-1853, is one of the oldest surviving residences in Manitoba. It takes its name from a nearby creek where seven large oak trees once stood, marking the site of the Battle of Seven Oaks fought in 1816. It was the home of John Inkster (1799-1874) and his wife Mary (1805-1892), daughter of Hudson's Bay Company Chief Factor William Sinclair and Nahoway, his Cree wife. John Inkster was a prominent merchant and free trader. From 1857-68 he was a member of the Council of Assiniboia, which oversaw the legal and administrative activities of this first European-origin agricultural colony in western Canada, the Red River Settlement (1812-1870). The house, built with log walls in a stately Georgian style, is one of few remaining examples of Red river frame construction. The small, adjacent General Store building was the Inkster family's original residence, built shortly after they received this land grant in 1835. They stand today as reminders of the period that was defined by Hudson's Bay Company trade, of the transition from a fur trade to an agricultural economy, and of the increasing dominance of British colonial rule.

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La maison Seven Oaks, bâtie entre 1851 et 1853, est l’une des plus anciennes demeures encore debout au Manitoba. Elle tient son nom d’une crique des alentours où se dressaient sept chênes, marquant le lieu de la bataille de Seven Oaks en 1816. C’était la maison de John Inkster (1799‑1874) et de sa femme Mary (1805-1892), la fille du facteur en chef de la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson, William Sinclair, et de sa femme crie, Nahoway. John Inkster était un négociant et un marchand important. De 1857 à 1868, il a été membre du Conseil d’Assiniboia, qui supervisait les activités légales et administratives de la première colonie agricole d’origine européenne dans l’Ouest canadien, la Colonie de la Rivière-Rouge (1812-1870). La maison, d’un style géorgien imposant avec ses murs en rondins, est l’un des rares exemples restants de construction réalisée selon le procédé « pièces-sur-pièces en coulisse ». Le petit magasin d’approvisionnement adjacent, bâti peu après l’obtention d’une concession de terre en 1835, était la résidence originale de la famille Inkster. Ces bâtiments nous rappellent aujourd’hui la période définie par le commerce de la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson, de la transition du commerce des fourrures à une économie agricole, et d’une dominance croissante du régime colonial britannique.

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Plaque text and location: Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques, Historic Resources Branch, Government of Manitoba, as the Branch publishes them on its plaque pages. The text is the Manitoba Heritage Council’s text as the Branch publishes it; the pin on this page is ours, worked out from the location the Branch gives and marked approximate. Contains information from the Government of Manitoba, licensed under the OpenMB Information and Data Use License (Manitoba.ca/OpenMB)
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