is Cape Merry Battery. The battery was named for former HBC Deputy Governor (1712-1718) Captain John Merry (1656-1729). The fixed battery was built three times. The first was built sometime after 1718 and featured a wall protected by cannon(s) and powder magazine. Only remaining parts are the ruins of the door of the magazine and parts of the wall. A second battery was built in 1747 further south and away from the river due to concerns that the first battery could be used to attack the fort. A third was rebuilt in 1959-1960 from second as a restoration process. The battery today has a single cannon. Restoration After the construction of the Hudson Bay Railway to Churchill was completed in 1929, railway labour and railway construction equipment was used to restore the fort. Restoration work was also performed in the late 1950s. Archaeological investigations at and around the fort began in 1958. Since 2005, Parks Canada archaeologists have been working in and around the fort in conjunction with a large-scale wall stabilization work and a fort interpretation program. Legacy In 1920, the site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. A series of journals written by explorer Samuel Hearne on a journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean was published by the Champlain Society in 1911. On 28 June 1985, Canada Post issued 'Fort Prince of Wales, Man.', one of the 20 stamps in the "Forts Across Canada Series". The fort is also the subject of one of the National Film Board of Canada's Canada Vignettes. See also John Bean, explorer who voyaged to the fort Nathaniel Bishop, master of the fort References External links Manitoba Historical Society Prince of Wales Fort National Historic Site of Canada YouTube video of the NFB vignette. Buildings and structures in Churchill, Manitoba Forts or trading posts on the National Historic Sites of Canada register Hudson's Bay Company forts National Historic Sites in Manitoba Forts in Manitoba Fur trade National Historic Sites of Canada 1717 establishments in the British Empire 1717 establishments in North America