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Winnipeg, city, Canada

Winnipeg (wĭn`ĭpĕg), city (1991 pop. 616,790), provincial capital, SE Man., Canada, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. It is the province's largest city and one of the world's largest wheat markets. A railroad, commercial, industrial, and distribution center, it has an international airport, railroad shops, grain elevators, stockyards, meatpacking and automobile plants, flour and textile mills, and breweries.

The city's history reflects the history of early French and British explorers and fur traders. In 1738, the sieur de la Vérendrye built the first post on the site, Fort Rouge, but it was later abandoned. Other posts were built in the Red River region, which was fiercely contested by the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company. The conflict reached its height in the struggle over the Red River Settlement. The two companies were merged in 1821. Fort Gibraltar, a post of the North West Company on the site of present-day Winnipeg, was renamed Fort Garry and became the leading post in the region. In 1835 its name was changed to Winnipeg. Settlement was spurred by the construction of a rail line in 1881. Much of the city had to be rebuilt after the 1950 Red River flood. In the 1970s and 80s many new developments (a new city hall, hotels, a convention center, office buildings) were constructed.

In the city are the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Manitoba Theater Group, and a symphony orchestra. The Univ. of Manitoba and the Univ. of Winnipeg are also there, and the city has a Canadian Football League team. An annual festival, the Folklorama, is dedicated to celebrating the city's increasingly cosmopolitan character.

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Winnipeg, river, Canada

Winnipeg, river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, issuing from the north end of Lake of the Woods, SW Ont., Canada, and flowing in a winding course generally northwest to the southeast end of Lake Winnipeg, SE Man. There are six hydroelectric stations on its course, supplying most of S Manitoba with electricity; the largest station is at Seven Sisters Falls. The river was first traveled by the sons of Vérendrye, the Canadian explorer, and was much used by explorers and fur traders.

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Winnipeg

City (pop., 2001: metro. area, 671,274), capital of Manitoba, Canada. Located at the confluence of the Red River of the North and the Assiniboine River, Winnipeg was settled as a French fur-trading post in 1738. In the early 19th century Thomas Douglas founded a Scottish settlement there. Development ensued with the arrival of Canada's first transcontinental railroad in 1885. Following disastrous floods in 1950, much of the city was rebuilt. It is a cultural, financial, commercial, industrial, and government centre.

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Winnipeg

1. a city in S Canada, capital of Manitoba at the confluence of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers: University of Manitoba (1877) and University of Winnipeg (1871). Pop.: 626 685 (2001)

2. Lake. a lake in S Canada, in Manitoba: drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. Area: 23 553 sq. km (9094 sq. miles)

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Winnipeg 

a city in southern Canada located on the Assiniboine River where it flows into the Red River. Administrative center of the province of Manitoba. Population, 523,000 (1968, including the suburbs; about one-half of the population is made up of English Canadians).

Winnipeg is an important trans-Canadian railroad and highway junction. It has a major airport in the suburb of St. James. The city is the trade and distribution center for Canada’s prairie regions, and it is a grain market of world importance. Concentrated in Winnipeg is about four-fifths of the output of Manitoba’s processing industry. There are food-processing (meat-canning, flour-milling, dairy, and vegetable oil mills), garment, furniture, printing, chemical, and electrical equipment plants. There is also petroleum refining, metalworking, machine building, and the production of building materials. Winnipeg has a university. The first settlement of Europeans on the site of Winnipeg was founded in 1738, and the city received its present name in 1873.

L. N. KARPOV

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Winnipeg 

a lake in southern Canada. Remnant of the extensive glacial Lake Agassiz. Lake Winnipeg is located in a swampy, forested region at an elevation of 217 m. Its area is 24,300 sq km and its maximum depth, 28 m. The largest tributary of the lake is the Saskatchewan River. The Nelson River, which eventually flows into Hudson Bay, flows out of Lake Winnipeg. Over a period of many years the variation in the lake’s level has been 3 m. It freezes over in November and opens up at the end of April. Lake Winnipeg is navigable and has a fishing industry.