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**Manitoba History**
 * Do you know about the history of Manitoba? The first white man to come to Manitoba was Sir Tohmas Butler, who arrived in 1612. When he got there, there were four main native tribes, and they all got along peacefully. When the white men came, the natives started to die out, because the white men were killing the buffalo that the natives needed.One thing that all of the natives had in common was that they all mostly built wiwams. When Sir Tohmas Butler got there, he claimed the land for Britain. Claiming the land meant that a lot of people started to come. When they came, they had to have someone to marry, so they married the native women. I wonder if the native men were very happy about that. **


 * Right away,when white men got there there were different colonies, and two of the main groups were the Hudson Bay Company, and the Red River Colony. The Hudson Bay Company was larger than the Red River colony. So, they both wanted land, so they fought each other, and the Hudson Bay Company won, and took over the Red River Colony. People who were already living in Manitoba, sent some people back to Europe, so a lot of people started coming. The population doubled! The pioneers that came built sod houses, and **


 * made their money off of growing wheat. Do you think you could live in a sod house? **


 * Later, things really started to change. Canada became its own country and they bought Manitoba from Britain. Soon after that, many Chinese workers came to work on the railroad in Manitoba. In 1878, the first railroad connected, linking Winnipeg to St.Paul, Minnesota. Along with those good things, many bad things started to happen also. One, when Manitoba became a province, the white men started to force the natives off of the land. Also, there was a Winnipeg General Strike for six weeks! The economy **


 * in Winnipeg came to a standstill. In World War Two, Manitoba made weapons for the Allies. Winnipeg also became one of Canada's largest cities. As you can see, the **
 * history of Manitoba is very **


 * interesting. **


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