Winnipeg

== Etymology ==
Winnipeg is named after nearby [[Lake Winnipeg]], {{Convert|65|km|mi|abbr=on}} north of the city. English explorer [[Henry Kelsey]] may have been the first European to see the lake in 1690. He adopted the [[Cree language|Cree]] and [[Ojibwe language|Ojibwe]] name {{lang|oj|win-nipi}} (also transcribed {{lang|oj|win-nipiy}} or {{lang|oj|ouenpig}}) meaning "murky water" or "muddy water"<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ham|first=Penny|title=Place Names of Manitoba|publisher=Western Producer Prairie Books|year=1980|isbn=9780888330673|page=138}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=Canadian Oxford Dictionary|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-541816-6|editor-last=Barber|editor-first=Katherine|chapter=Winnipeg, Lake}}</ref><ref name="boyens">{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=The Encyclopedia of Manitoba|publisher=Great Plains Publications|year=2007|isbn=978-1-894-283-71-7|editor-last=Boyens|editor-first=Ingeborg|pages=383, 744}}</ref> (modern {{Lang-cr|script=Latn|wīnipēk}}, {{lang|cr-Cans|ᐑᓂᐯᐠ}}). French-Canadian fur trader [[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye|La Vérendrye]] referred to the lake as {{Lang|fr|Lac Gouinipique}} or {{Lang|fr|Ouinipigon}} when he built the first forts in the area in the 1730s.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bellin|first=M.|title=Remarques sur la Carte de l'Amérique Septentrionale|publisher=Didot|year=1755|page=73}}</ref> Local newspaper ''The Nor'-Wester'' included the name on its masthead on 24 February 1866, and the city was incorporated by that name by the [[Manitoba Legislature]] in 1873.<ref name=boyens />