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Encyclopedia Britannica



WINNIPEG

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 732 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WINNIPEG , a lake and river of Canada. The lake is in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and
Keewatin
 , and is situated between 50 20' and 53 50' N. and 96 20' and 49 15' W. It covers an area of 8555 sq. in., is at an altitude of 710 ft. above the sea, is 26o m.
long
 , 25 to 6o m. wide, and contains several large islands, including Reindeer (70 sq. m.) and Big
Island
  (6o sq. m.). It is shallow, being nowhere more than 70 ft. in depth, and in con-sequence extremely stormy and dangerous. It abounds in fish, its white fish being especially celebrated. Its shores are low and on the
south
  extremely marshy. The
principal
  affluent rivers are: Red river, from the
south
 ; Winnipeg, Bloodvein, Berens and Poplar from the
east
 ; and the Dauphin and Saskatchewan from the west. It receives the surplus waters of lakes Manitoba and Winnipegosis, and discharges by the river Nelson into Hudson Bay. The river Winnipeg rises near Savanne station in 48 47' N. and 89 57' W., and flows in a westerly direction under the names of Savanne, Seine, and
Rainy
  rivers to the Lake of the Woods; issuing thence as the Winnipeg, it flows N.W. with an exceedingly tortuous and turbulent course to the lake of the same name. It is navigable from the foot of the Lake of the Woods to the head of
Rainy
  lakewith a short
portage
  at Fort Frances fallsa distance of 208 m. Its
principal
  tributary is English river.


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