Colonial Despatches

Winnipeg is the capital city of Manitoba; it incorporated in 1873 with a population of around 3700.1 It is roughly 100 km north of the Minnesota border.2 The area covered by today's city supported European fur-trade interests as early as 1738, with the building of Fort Rouge and, later, the Red River Settlement.3

Winnipeg derives from the Cree word “win-nipi”, or “murky water”, likely in reference to the Red and Assiniboine Rivers that intersect at the heart of the city.4

• 1. Alan F. J. Artibise, Winnipeg, The Canadian Encyclopedia.
• 2. Ibid.
• 3. Ibid.
• 4. Ibid.