Grand Rapids (Manitoba)

Grand Rapids is a city in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and is located on the northwestern shore of Lake Winnipeg, near the mouth of the Saskatchewan River. His name has become the place of the rapids of the river just before the mouth. Previously was on the site of the trading post Fort Bourbon, as the bulk of the east-west traffic in today's Canada ran across the Saskatchewan River and had to be overcome the rapids. Since the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s, these travel and trade route, however, is no longer relevant and the place lives mainly from fishing and tourism. The founding date of 1962 refers to the date of obtaining the own community status as a town. In the days of greater importance, there was no province of Manitoba (est. 1870) and no State Canada (est. 1867), the area belonged to Rupert's land and was thus under the administrative authority of the Hudson's Bay Company. From 1870 it belonged to the Northwest Territories, and only with the boundary extension of 1912 it became part of Manitoba.

Personalities

  • Ovide Mercredi, 1991-97 Head of the Assembly of First Nations
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