WINNIPEG. The capital of the Province of Manitoba, Canada, situated at the confluence of the Red and Assiiiihoine rivers, the two principal streams of the province. 14124 miles west of Montreal, in latitude 49° 50' N. and longitude 97° 7' W. (Map: Manitoba, K 5). Through the Red River there is access to Lake Winnipeg. The city is regularly laid out, except the old part contiguous to Fort Carry. River Avenue is a favorite driving bou levard. The principal residential portion of the city is south of Portage Avenue, but there are many handsome residences in Fort Rouge, the part. of Winnipeg south of the Assiniboine. The eity is the headquarters of the provincial Govern ment, and has the residence of the Lieutenant Governor, the Parliament house, and the public departments of the province. The city hall is noteworthy. The University of Manitoba, situ ated here, ineludes Manitoba College ( l'resbyteri an). Saint John's College Saint Boniface College (Roman Catholic), and a medi cal college. Saint Boniface. a town (population, in 1901, 2019), chiefly French, lies on the east bank of the Red River, opposite Winnipeg. and
contains Saint Boldface College, hospitals, and schools. It is connected with the city by an iron toll bridge. The trade of Winnipeg is large, the exports being grains. vegetables, flour, fish, cheese, butter, and furs. It has large machine and engine shops and car works belonging to the Canadian Pacific Railroad, lumber mills, flour mills. and other factories.
The city is governed by a mayor and a board of twelve councilmen, and shows a progressive civic spirit. As Fort Garry. Winnipeg was originally an old post of the Hudson's Bay Com pany. and was associated with the earliest days of trapping and fur-trading. The fort was situ ated about 400 yards from the mouth of the Assiniboine, and in 1S35 was replaced by a larger structure, now dismantled and almost ob literated, which was the centre of the colony of Assinihoia. The fort figures prominently in the history of that colony and of Manitoba, and is noted the seat of Louis IIiel's short-lived Gov ernment, 1869-70. Population. in 1901, 42,336.