Winnipeg

Winnipeg, capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba, stands at the confluence of the Assiniboine with the Red River, by rail 1424 miles NNW. of Montreal and 512 miles NNW. of Minneapolis. Formerly known as Fort Garry, from the Hudson Bay Company's post so called (pop. in 1871, 241), it was incorporated as the city of Winnipeg in 1873. It is substantially built of stone and brick, with wide streets traversed by tramways and lit with the electric light. The principal buildings are the government offices, city hall, post-office, numerous churches, a fine hospital, and the buildings of the university of Manitoba, which includes an Episcopal, a Presbyterian, and a Roman Catholic college. The city contains great flour-mills and grain-elevators, the shops of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and a number of manufactures, and is the busy centre of a fertile country, with a large carrying trade both by river and rail. Pop. (1871) 241; (1881) 7985; (1891) 25,642.