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4worldlovers: Grant's Old Mill Museum is located at 2777 Portage Avenue in Winnipeg Manitoba on the banks of Sturgeon Creek (kitty corner to Booth Drive).

We operate a water-powered mill using mill stones to demonstrate how wheat was ground into flour in the mid 1800’s. Wheat was an important food source for the community and a mill was required to grind the wheat into flour. There were already several windmills in the area, but Cuthbert Grant built the first water-powered mill west of the Great Lakes. It was completed in 1829 and located on the banks of Sturgeon Creek in Winnipeg. This mill is a replica of one built by Cutherbert Grant in 1829 — to help feed his Métis people and was considered the first water powered mill in Western Canada. It is made of one-foot thick tamarack logs that came from the Whiteshell and its stones from the quarries at Garson.

We also share the stories of Cuthbert Grant (1793 to 1854) in regards to the fur trade and the fur trade wars. as He was considered to be the first leader of the Métis Nation here in Manitoba.