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 Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de la
..... Click the link for more information. 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 2)), was sold to the North West Company during the War of 1812 by Astor employees sympathetic to the British; however, it helped establish a U.S. claim to the Pacific Northwest.
..... Click the link for more information. and the Hudson's Bay Company Hudson's Bay Company, corporation chartered (1670) by Charles II of England for the purpose of trade and settlement in the Hudson Bay region of North America and for exploration toward the discovery of the Northwest Passage to Asia.
..... Click the link for more information. . The conflict reached its height in the struggle over the Red River Settlement Red River Settlement, agricultural colony in present Manitoba, North Dakota, and Minnesota. It was the undertaking of Thomas Douglas, 5th earl of Selkirk . Wishing to relieve the dispossessed and impoverished in Scotland and Northern Ireland, he secured enough
..... Click the link for more information. . 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.

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.

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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