Fort Dufferin

Fort Dufferin
Fort Dufferin site with remaining buildings
EtymologyFrederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
LocationManitoba, Canada
Coordinates49°1′50″N 97°12′8″W / 49.03056°N 97.20222°W / 49.03056; -97.20222
FounderGovernment of Canada
Built1872 (used until 1879)
Designated1937

Fort Dufferin is a former Canadian government post near the Canada–United States border at Emerson, Manitoba. The fort was used during the 1870s as a base for the North American Boundary Commission and the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), and as an immigration station. It was designated a national historic site of Canada in 1937.