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 Man i to wab an . La Vérendrye 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 A iniboine, in 1733; and Fort La 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 : C Bill creating province introduced by Cartier, 71; meaning of name, The God That Speaks , 71. Md Bill pa ed 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 ; Ro , Red River Settlement .