Winnipeg
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- Names
Winnipeg
Ft. Garry
Ft. Gibraltar
Fort-Rouge
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Situated at junction of Red and Assiniboine rivers; city developed as important grain market, and warehousing and distributing center after arrival of Canadian Pacific railroad in 1881; products include clothes, processed food, automobiles and farm machinery.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- CCA Object File; Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Born
George Arlook (Canadian, Inuit, and Arviat, born 1949)
C. Herald Campbell (American, born Canada, 1911-2009)
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