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.
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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.