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Home > Winnipeg Winnipeg, Manitoba With an ethnically diverse population, Winnipeg is characterized by slow but steady growth. It is the eighth largest city in Canada and dominates the Manitoba economy.

Winnipeg was incorporated as a city in 1873 with a population of 1,869 people. A flood of immigrants, high wheat prices, plentiful capital, and improved farming techniques contributed to making Winnipeg the wholesale, administrative, and financial centre of western Canada. Winnipeg proper has grown to the size of a first-class city of 256,000 and Greater Winnipeg 500,000 people. The name Winnipeg has its origin in the Cree Indian name given to the lake 40 miles north, meaning "Win", muddy, "nipee", water.