Manitoba Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
province of Canada
About Manitoba
The province has 1.3 million inhabitants, half of them inWinnipeg, the capital. One-tenth of the population belongs to theFirst Nations(Indigenous) peoples. It has a widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the north, to dense boreal forest and prairie farmland in the central and southern regions. Indigenous peoples have inhabited what is now Manitoba for thousands of years. In the early 17th century, European fur traders began arriving in the area and establishing settlements along the Nelson, Assiniboine, and Red rivers, and on the Hudson Bay shoreline. Great Britain secured control of the region in 1673, and created a territory named Rupert's Land which was placed under the control of the Hudson's Bay Company. Rupert's Land, which covered all of presen
Manitoba Travel Guide Sections
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