The word Manitoba came from the Algonquian language of the Indians. The tribe thought that Manito or Great Spirit made the echoing sound that came from the Strait of Manitoba. These sounds were made by the waves smashing against limestone ledges on the shore. The Indians called this part of the lake Manito, the Great Spirit's strait.

Manitoba's nickname is the Keystone Province. This nickname came about because of Manitoba's location. Manitoba is located in the central, or keystone, position of the arch formed by the ten provinces of Canada.

When the first explorers and fur traders arrived in Manitoba, five In

Sir Thomas Button, leader of the first white people in Manitoba, reached the west coast of the Hudson Bay is 1612. He claimed the land for England. In 1670 King Charles II of England granted trading right in this region. In 1690 Henry Kelsey of the Hudson's Bay Company explored inland to what is now southern Manitoba. In 1738 Pierre Gaultier de Varenesses, Sieur de La Verendrye, a French-Canadian fur trader, arrived in Winnipeg. The first permanent settlement in Manitoba was the Red River Colony. It was established in 1812 by Scottish and Irish settlers. Louis Riel led people of mixed white and Indian decent called metis in the Red River Rebellion in 1869. The metis were rebelling against the Canadian government.

Flin Flon became a mining center in 1930. The Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company started the operations. They found valuable deposits of copper, gold, and zinc in Flin Flon. Later they found nickel and silver. A pulp and paper plant opened in Pine Falls in 1927. F

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