Manitoba

Area, 73,956 square miles. The province was created in 1870,

the old Red River Settlement, founded by Lord Selkirk, forming the

nucleus. The name is a contraction of the Cree word Manitowaban. La

Verendrye and his sons were the first white men to set foot within what

now forms the province. They built Fort Maurepas, at the mouth of

Winnipeg River, in 1734; Fort Rouge, at the mouth of the Assiniboine, in

1733; and Fort a Reine, near present Portage la Prairie, in 1738. They

afterwards built Fort Dauphin, on or near Lake Dauphin. See also Red

River Colony; Winnipeg. =Index=: (Sir Georges E. Cartier era) Bill creating province introduced

by Cartier, 71; meaning of name, The God That Speaks, 71. (Sir John A Macdonald era) Bill

passed for establishment of, as province, 161; restrictions against

rival lines to Canadian Pacific Railway removed, 236, 284; boundary

dispute, 256; its connection with commercial union, 298. =Bib.=: Bryce,

Manitoba; Gunn and Tuttle, History of Manitoba; Begg, History of

the North-West; Bryce, Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's

Colonists; Hargrave, Red River; Ross, Red River Settlement.