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* WINNIPEG. 576 ■WINSLOW. noteworthy. The University of Manitoba, situ- ated here, includes Manitoba College ( Presbyteri- an). Saint John's College (Anglican). Saint Boniface College (Roman Catholic), and a medi- cal college. Saint Boniface, a town (population, in 1901, 2019), chiefly French, lies on the east bank of the Red River, opposite Winnipeg, and contains Saint Boniface College, hospitals, and schools. It is connected with the city by an iron toll bridge. The trade of Winnipeg is large, the exports being grains, vegetables, flour, fish, cheese, butter, and furs. It has large machine and engine shops and car works belonging to the Canadian Pacific Railroad, lumber mills, flour mills, and other factories. The city is governed by a ma^'or and a board of twelve couneilmen, and shows a progressive civic spirit. As Fort GJarry. Winnipeg was originally an old post of the Hudson's Bay Com- pany, and was associated with the earliest d.ays of trapping and fur-trading. The fort was situ- ated about 400 yards from the mouth of the Assiniboine. and in 1835 was replaced by a larger structure, now dismantled ami almost ob- literated, which was the centre of the colony of Assiniboia. The fort figures prominently in the history of that colony and of Manitoba, and is noted "as the seat of I,ouis Riel's short-lived fiov- ernment. 1S09-70. Population, in 1901. 42.336. WIN'NIPEGOOS, or -WINNIPEGOO'SIS. A lake in JIanitoba extending northward into Saskatchewan, and lying 20 to 00 miles west of Lake Winnipeg (Map: Canada. L 0). It is about 130 miles long and 20 miles broad, but shallow and navigable only for vessels drawing 10 feet or under. It discharges through the Waterhen River southeastward into Lake Mani- toba. "WINNIPISEOGEE, win'ni-pi-sa'ge. or "WIN- NEPESAUKEE. A lake in the east central part of Xew Hampshire (Map: Kew Hampshire. J 7). It has an extreme length of 20 miles and a width of 10 miles, but is very irregular in out- line, and studded with numerous islands. The water is clear and deep, and the picturesque scenery attracts large numbers of visitors. The lake discharges through a small stream into the Merrimac River. WINO'NA. The county-seat of Winona County, Minn., 103 miles southeast of Saint Paul, on the Mississippi River, here spanned by several bridges, and on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul, the Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, Burlington and Qiiincy, the Chica- go Great Vestern, and the Green Bay and Western railroads (Map: Minnesota, G G).'lt has a State normal scliool, Winona Seniinavy. and a public library. Other features include the Winona General Hospital, the Margaret Simpson Home, and the United States fiovernnvent building. Winona is favored with excellent transportation facilities and is especially known as the centre of extensive grain and lumber interests. It is prominent industrially, its various manu- facturing estaljlisbmcnts in the census year 1000 having .$0,192,386 invested capital and a pro- duction valued at .$0.. '576.382. There are several large saw mills, railway shops, breweries, and manufactories of flour, flax filire. carriages and wagons, boots and shoes, farm implements, pat- ent medicines, machine sho|) pro<lucts. etc. The vater-works are owned by the municipality. Winona was settled in 1851, was laid out as a town in 1S52. and was chartered in 1857. Popu- lation, in 1890, 18,208; in 1900, 19,714. ■WINOOSKI, wi-noos'ke. A village in the town of Colchester, Vt. See Colchesteb. WINOOSKI, or Onion. A river of northern Vermont. It rises in the eastern part of the State, flows westward past Montpclier and through the CJreen Mountains, and empties into Lake Champlaiu near Burlington (Jlap: Ver- mont, C 4). It is about 100 miles long, and is a picturesque stream flowing in several places through deep gorges, and broken by numerous falls and rapids. WINS'FORD. A salt-mining town in Chesh- ire, England, oii; miles south of Norwich (Map: England, D 3). Population, in 1901, 10,- 382. WIN'SHIP, George Parker (1871—). An American librarian and writer, born in Bridge- water, Mass. He graduated in 1893 at Harvard, where he was an assistant in histoi-y in 1893-95; and subsequently was placed in charge of the John Carter Brown Library at Providence, R. I. He published: The Coronado Expedition (1896) ; John Cahot (1898): Geoffrey Chaucer (1900); and Cahot nihVwgraphy (1900). "WINS'LOW, Edward (1595-1655). An Anglo- American colonial governor, born at Droitwich, Worcestershire, England. While making a tour on the Continent he became acquainted with .John Robinson, minister of the Independent Cluirch in Leyden. which had separated from the Church of England, and became a member of the Leyden congregation. In 1620, with his wife and brother, he joined the -Vdi/fhxrer at Southampton and was one of the party that landed at Plymouth, Mass. His wife died in ilarch. 1621. and his marriage two months later, with IMrs. Susannah White, was the first in New England. Susannah was the mother of Peregrine White, the first English child born in New England. The same yean- Winslow won the friendship of JIassasoit, the Indian chief, with wliom he negotiated a treaty, and whom two ye:u's later lie cured of an illness. In 1623 and 1624 lie visited England as agent of the Plymouth Colony. On his re- turn he became a magistrate. He w^cnt to Eng- land again in 1625. He was elected Governor in 1633. Wliile on a visit to England in 1635, he went before the council and ])i-evonted any at- tempt to destroy the self-government of the Plymouth Colony. Tlu> same year, at the insti- gation of :in envi(nis colonist, lie was imprisoned for seventeen weeks by Laud on the charge of giving instruction in the church and of celebrat- ing marriages, while only a layman. He was (Governor again in 1036 and 1644; again visited England in 1640, and in 1649 went to I'higland and stayed there. He was one of the founders of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in New England. In 1653 he was ap- ])ointed by Cromwell one of three commissioners to accompany an expedition against the Span- iards in the West Indies. I)ut he died on the voyage between Hispaniola and .lamaica. He wrote several works, the cliief of which. Good Xcives from Xeic En;ibind (1624), lli/pocrisie Unmnnh-ed (1646), and The Glorious Pror/ress of the Gospcll Amongst the Indians (1049), have