Antoine Gingras' roofless fur trading post, Walhalla, N.D.

• Main Author: Pelletier, Emile
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: State Historical Society of North Dakota; 1966
• Subjects: Fur trade; Historic sites; Pioneer Era; Trading posts; Wooden buildings; Abandoned buildings; Gingras; Antoine; 1821-1877; Walhalla (N.D.); Metis
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/uw-ndshs/id/1212

A long wooden building in an open field. The roof has collapsed, and the material is obviously worn. Photographic prints; "The "roofless" fur-trading post store of Antoine B. Gingras on the old ox-cart trail a few miles N.E. of Walhalla, N.D. It was established in the middle 1840's or thereabouts, (1844) now deteriorating etc. Pictured by Emile Pelletier of St. Boniface, Man., Sat. aftn. July 9, 1966. It was later (many years afterwards) converted into a barn by Allen G. Andrews, then owner, etc. Albert E. Dease"--Handwritten on back of photograph. Title created by staff. Antoine Gingras settled here in the 1840s. Gingras was a prominent fur trader, a representative in the Minnesota Territorial legislature, and participated in the 1869 Metis rebellion against Canadian rule, led by Louis Riel. Consult http://history.nd.gov/historicsites/gringras/index.html