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Pacific, half way from Montreal to Vancouver, and also on the Canadian Northern. The first of these railways has six, the second four, branches to various points in Manitoba and the provinces adjoining. The Grand Trunk Pacific also makes Winnipeg its central point. There is steam navigation down Red River and up the Saskatchewan to the Rockies, 1,000 miles.

Winnipeg is the commercial metropolis of western Canada and the center of its jobbing and wholesale trade. It also is the financial headquarters. It exports more wheat than Duluth, Minn., and Chicago, Ills. The Saint Andrew water-power on Red River and the Bonnet electric power-plant on Winnipeg River are making it a manufacturing center. Among the manufactures of the city are flour and oatmeal; bookbinding; clothing; brewing; furniture; harness and saddlery; carriages and wagons; soap, tanning and wooden goods; and many minor products. The city owns its asphalt plant, electric lighting plant, a quarry and waterworks, and has many fine parks and magnificent boulevards. The public buildings, among which should be mentioned those of the Manitoba legislature and the residence of the lieutenant-governor, would do credit to London. The school-buildings, numbering over 20 and costing $750,000, are unsurpassed in appearance and use. The Roman Catholics of the city also have parochial schools. Collegiate Institute, Manitoba Normal School, Carnegie Library and the University of Manitoba are the prominent institutions of learning. With the last are affiliated a College of Pharmacy, a Medical College, Manitoba College (Presb.), St. Boniface College (R. C.), St. John College (Anglican) and Wesley College (Methodist). The churches number 70, Winnipeg being as noted for the many religious bodies represented as for its numerous nationalities. The city has grown from 215 people in 1870 to 135,430 inhabitants in 1911.

Win'nipego'sis, meaning Little Winnipeg, a lake of Manitoba and Keewatin. It is about 125 miles long; its greatest width is 25 miles; and it covers about 2,000 square miles. It is 60 feet higher than Lake Winnipeg and 20 higher than Lake Manitoba, into which it discharges its waters by means of Water-Hen River. The waters of Dauphin Lake and Swan and Red Deer Rivers fall into Lake Winnipegosis.

Winnipiseogee (win'e-pe-sd'ke), a lake of New Hampshire, 25 miles long and about ten wide. There are a number of bays and many islands. Winnipiseogee or Win-nepesaukee River carries its waters to the Merrimac. Its waters are clear, deep and well-stocked with fish.

Wino'na, Minn., county-seat of Winona County, the fourth city of Minnesota, on the

Mississippi, 104 miles southeast of St. Paul. It is built on rich lowlands under the Mississippi bluffs. One of its finest buildings is the state's normal school. It also has a fine government building, magnificent library and Y. M. C. A. buildings and a water-front park second to none on the Mississippi. Winona is a 1-arge wheat and lumber mart, besides which it has manufactures of carriages, wagons, farm-tools, flour, shoes, candies, patent-medicines, a large malting plant and a flax or fiber plant. The city was settled in 1851. Population 18 583.

Wins'low, Edward, governor of Plymouth Colony, was born at Droitwich, Worcestershire, England, Oct. 19, 1595. He came to New England in the Mayflower, and offered himself to Massasoit, the Indian chief, as a hostage for the fair dealing of the colonists. In this way and by curing the chief when he was sick he gained his friendship. After two voyages to England on behalf of the colony, he was made governor in 1633, 1636 and 1644. On his third visit to England (1635) he was imprisoned for 17 weeks by Archbishop Laud for teaching in the church, as he was not a clergyman. Winslow's portrait in the gallery of the Pilgrim Society at Plymouth is said to be the only authentic likeness of any of the Mayflower Pilgrims. His marriage with Mrs. Susanna White was the first marriage in Plymouth Colony. In 1655 Cromwell sent Winslow on a mission to the West Indies, but he died on the voyage, May 8, 1655. Consult Justin Winsor's Narrative History of the Umted States.

Winslow, John Ancrum, American admiral, who in 1864, when in command of the Kearsarge^ defeated and sank the Confederate privateer Alabama off Cherbourg harbor, was born at Wilmington, N. C., Nov. 19, 1811, and died at Boston, Mass., Sept. 29, 1873. Entering the United States navy in 1827, he served in the Mexican War and for gallantry was given command of the Morris and subsequently promoted to the rank of commander. After his encounter with Captain Semmes and the sinking of the Alabama (June 14, 1864), he was promoted to commodore and in 1866-7 commanded the Gulf squadron. In 1870 he received a rear-admiralship, and was given command of the Pacific squadron (1870-2).

Win'sor, Justin, American historian and librarian, was born at Boston, Mass., Jan. 2, 1831, and died at Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 22, 1897. After studying at Harvard and at Heidelberg, he became superintendent of Boston Library and held this post from 1868 to 1877, passing in the latter year to the librarianship of Harvard. From 1876 to 1886 he was president of American Library Association and of the American Historical Association, and was secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society.