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| | Winnipeg - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Winnipeg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26) |
 | | Capital of Manitoba, Canada, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, 65 km/40 mi south of Lake Winnipeg, 30 km/20 mi north of the US border; population (2001 est) 709,400. |
 | | It is the seat of the University of Manitoba (1877) and University of Winnipeg (1947), and the site of the Centennial Centre Complex, containing the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, with a planetarium; and the Concert Hall, home to the city's symphony orchestra, theatre, and ballet companies. |
 | | Notable structures include the copper-domed Manitoba Legislative Building (1924), and the Neo-Romanesque St Boniface Cathedral, rebuilt after a fire in 1968 and the burial place of Louis Riel, leader of a Native Canadian Métis uprising in 1885. |
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