Red River: Fort Souris
Update time! Just a quick look at where history sits, today. 
As mentioned in the history, the old Fort Souris was approximately 5 km east of the townsite, placed on the bank of the Red River. While the original site has since been dismantled and is now a preserved site by the province, a small recreation of the fort has been built just upstream from the first home. Built with the original style and with similar materials, the fort seeks to show visitors what life was like for the early fur traders and what hardships had to be overcome, living relatively alone in the New World.
Still on the banks, it has been threatened by flooding more than a few times in its short history, being reconstructed in the mid 1980's. Somehow, much like the old fort, it has perservered through good times and bad.
Further north in the County of Red River, is the old buffalo jump used by the Cree nations. The Cree would drive the bison over the cliff, with another group stationed down below to finish off the battered animals. There are many locations such as this throughout North America.. one of the most well known being Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in south-central Alberta.. named after a poor soul who was at the wrong place at the wrong time at the bottom of the cliff. 
Don't mean to end it off on a sour note.. but that's all, folks!
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