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Portage la Prairie

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Portage la Prairie (pôr'tĭj lə prâr`ē), city (1991 pop. 13,186), S Man., Canada. It is the center of a mixed-farming region and has diversified industries. The city is near the site of Fort La Reine, an important fur-trading post built (1738) by Vérendrye as a carrying point between the Assiniboine River and Lake Manitoba.
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When the Hudson Bay basin was ceded to Britain in 1713, the explorer La Verendrye, accompanied by a Jesuit, Charles Mesaiger, established a post at Portage la Prairie, where two additional Jesuits were assigned to work with the Indians and Metis.
Catholics in Western Canada by NICOLSON, MURRAY / Catholic Insight
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