Lake Winnipeg is located in central Manitoba, and it is Canada's 6th largest freshwater
lake at roughly 416 km long.
1 It connects to the
Saskatchewan and
Red Rivers among others. Henry Kelsey, an English explorer, was perhaps the first European
to view this lake, the Cree name for which, “win-nipi”, means murky waters.
2 Lord Selkirk travelled the length of the lake in 1812, prior to founding the
Red River Colony.
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