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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the colony established by Lord Selkirk in the valley of the Red River in Manitoba in 1812.
See: Red River Settlement
Quotations
1824
In Red River the climate is healthy; the soil productive; the plains abound with Buffaloes; the waters with excellent fish.
1957
But the appointment of McDougall did not for a moment imply that Macdonald regarded Red River as an administrative monopoly of Canadians, still less of Ontarians.