Manitoba House is the name of a

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as well as a separate settlement adjacent to the post. The site is in the present-day

Rural Municipality of Alonsa Alonsa is a rural municipality (RM) in the province of Manitoba, western Canada. It lies on the west side of Lake Manitoba. Located within the borders of the municipality is the Indian reserve of Ebb and Flow 52, as well as the Margaret Bruce ...

Trading post

The first trading post at or near the Manitoba House site was operated for one season, 1797-98,by a Hudson's Bay Company servant, John Best, somewhere near the Lake Manitoba Narrows. The name in the post journal, ''Doubtful Post'', was likely chosen because of a lack of confidence in the survival of the post udson's Bay Company Archives, B.53/a/1 This post was indeed abandoned after this season, and the Company had no permanent presence in the district for many years. Manitoba House, which was intended to serve a large area, between Riding Mountain and

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, was established on the west side of Lake Manitoba, about 15 miles south of the Narrows, in the 1820s.

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was signed on August 21, 1871, at Manitoba House. A number of notable individuals served at Manitoba House, including

Isaac Cowie Isaac Cowie (November 18, 1848 – May 18, 1917) was a Scottish-born Canadian pioneer, fur trader, and politician. He served on the town council of Edmonton. Biography Cowie was born in Lerwick, Shetland on November 18, 1848. He spent two y ...

, as fur trader, and Archibald McDonald, as clerk.

Settlement

The

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adjacent to the trading post was referred to as simply the Manitoba House Settlement until 1889 when the name Kinosota was suggested by

John Norquay John Norquay (May 8, 1841 – July 5, 1889) was the fifth premier of Manitoba from 1878 to 1887. He was born near St. Andrews in what was then the Red River Colony, making him the first Premier of Manitoba to have been born in the region. ...

for the local post office. The settlement consists of a number of long narrow lots strung out along the shore of Lake Manitoba. St. Bede's Anglican parish, located in Kinosota, was formed in 1842 by Reverend Abraham Cowley, and is one of the oldest Anglican parishes in Manitoba. The church building was constructed around the turn of the century, and was moved to higher ground in 1922.

References

''Manitoba Historical Society – Biography of Isaac Cowie''
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