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The Forks, Winnipeg
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The Forks, Winnipeg
The Forks
is a historic site, meeting place and
green space
in
Downtown
Winnipeg
located at the
confluence
of the
Red River
and
Assiniboine River
. For at least 6000 years, the Forks has been the meeting place for early
Aboriginal peoples
, and since colonization has also been a meeting place for
European
fur traders,
Métis
buffalo hunters
,
Scottish
settlers, riverboat workers, railway pioneers and tens of thousands of immigrants.
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