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Tuesday 10/5/09
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5th Grade
10/06/2009

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Winnipeg
Definition

means "muddy water"

Winnipeg is Canada's leading grain market.

nickname "Gateway to the West"

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Churchill
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city called the "Polar Bear Capital of the World"
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James Evans
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Pioneer missionary who worked among the Indians in Ontario.  He developed a system of symbols for reading and writing the Cree language.  He became known as "the man who made birchbark talk."
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James Robertson
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A Presbyterian missionary from Scotland.  Because of him, thousands of dollars were raised for Canadian home missions, hundreds of churches were erected, and many new missionaries were recruited.
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