MANITOBA LAKE 



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MANITOWOC 



it is at times spoken of as the coming "Chicago 

 of the Canadian West." It is in harmony with 

 the province in all progressive measures, and is 

 the leader of Western Canada in social, moral 

 and religious advancement. G.B. 



Consult Adams' Ten Thousand Miles Through 

 Canada; Legge's Sunny Manitoba; Bryce's Mani- 

 toba. 



Related Subjects. The following articles will 

 be helpful to the reader who is interested in Mani- 

 toba : 



CITIES AND TOWNS 



Brandon Saint Boniface 



Dauphin Selkirk 



Minnedosa Souris 



Morden Stonewall 



Neepawa Virden 



Portage la Prairie Winnipeg 



HISTORY 



Hudson's Bay Company Kiel, Louis 



Manitoba 

 Winnipeg 



LAKES 



Winnipegosis 



LEADING PRODUCTS AND INDUSTRIES 



Alfalfa Flour 



Clover Fur and Fur Trade 



Corn Gypsum 



Dairying Potato 



Fish Wheat 



Assiniboine 

 Churchill 



RIVERS 

 Nelson 

 Red River of the North 



MANITOBA LAKE, a lake in the south- 

 central part of the province of Manitoba, about 

 sixty miles west of Lake Winnipeg. It is about 

 135 miles long and twenty-five miles wide, and 

 has an area of 1,817 square miles nearly as 

 great as that of Prince Edward Island and 600 

 square miles larger than that of the state of 

 Rhode Island. Its surface level is forty feet 

 higher than Lake Winnipeg, into which it dis- 

 charges through the Dauphin River. It is 

 navigable for vessels drawing ten feet of water, 

 but carries little traffic. It abounds in fish, 

 but its fisheries are of little commercial impor- 

 tance in comparison with those of Lake Win- 

 nipeg. Moose, elk, deer and wild fowl frequent 

 its shores and are an attraction for sportsmen. 



MANITOU, or MANITO, man i too', an Al- 

 gonquin Indian word, meaning mystery or 

 supernatural. The name was given by certain 

 tribes of North American Indians to the spirit 

 of good or evil which was supposed to become 

 the guardian angel of each individual. The 

 manitou is usually represented as an animal 

 and is assigned to an Indian in his dreams 

 during his first religious fast. The animal then 

 becomes his personal fetish (which see) ; he 

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carries its skin as a charm, and pictures of the 

 animal are tattooed or painted on h!s body 

 and are engraved on his weapons. 



MANITCULIN, manitoo'lin, ISLANDS, a 

 group of islands lying in Lake Huron, separat- 

 ing Georgian Bay from the lake proper. , They 

 are set apart from the mainland, the north 

 shore of Lake Huron, by a strait seven to 



LOCATION MAP 



The large area in black is the chief island of 

 the group, itself called Manitoulin, or Great Mani- 

 toulin. 



eighteen miles wide, called the North Channel. 

 The islands are irregular in their shape and 

 surface, the larger ones being covered with 

 dense growths of pine. Fishing, sailing and 

 bathing are excellent, and everywhere are ho- 

 tels and summer homes built to take advan- 

 tage of these opportunities. About half of the 

 2,000 people comprising the resident population 

 are Ojibway Indians. 



The Manitoulins (meaning sacred isles) in- 

 clude dozens of islands. Most of them are in 

 Ontario, including Great Manitoulin, or Mani- 

 toulin, and Little Manitoulin, or Cockburn Is- 

 land. The former, sometimes also known as 

 Sacred Isle, is ninety miles long and from five 

 to thirty miles wide. Cockburn Island is nearly 

 circular in shape, and has a diameter of about 

 seven miles. Drummond Island, the only im- 

 portant one belonging to Michigan, is twenty- 

 four miles long and from two to twelve miles 

 broad. 



MANITOWOC, manitohwahk', Wis., the 

 county seat of Manitowoc County, situated 

 about midway between the northern and south- 

 ern extremities of the state shore line, and at 

 the point where the Manitowoc River dis- 

 charges into Lake Michigan. Milwaukee is 

 seventy-five miles south. Transportation is 

 provided by the Chicago & North Western, the 

 Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault Sainte Marie 

 and the Pere Marquette railroads, the latter by 

 ferry from Michigan, and there is steamer con- 



