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  1. Capital and industrial city (sawmills,
  2. textiles, meat packing) in Manitoba, Canada,
  3. on the Red River, south of Lake Winnipeg;
  4. population (1996) 623,000. Established as
  5. Winnipeg 1873 on the site of earlier forts,
  6. the city expanded with the arrival of the
  7. Canadian Pacific Railroad 1881.
  8.