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and his responsibilities involved divid-
ing up river lots—long, narrow parcels
of land along the Red River.
The city was settled by a Scotsman
named Thomas Douglas, fi fth Earl of
Selkirk, as a 187,000km
2
settlement
called the Red River Colony (a monu-
ment at the end of Alexander Avenue
marks the exact spot). Douglas was an
emissary of the Hudson's Bay Company,
The province's parliamentary busi-
ness is taken care of in the Manitoba
Legislative Building
. This im-
pressive property, is full of interesting
touches like limestone walls embedded
with fossils, two bronze bisons and a
bust of Cartier. Up top, the dome is
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