Winnipeg of Métis, led by Louis Riel, and newcomers from eastern Canada. General Garnet Wolseley was sent to put down the uprising. The Manitoba Act of 1870 made Manitoba the fifth province of the three-year-old Canadian Confederation. Treaty 1, which encompassed the city and much of the surrounding area, was signed on 3 August 1871 by representatives of the Crown and local Indigenous groups, comprising the Brokenhead Ojibway, Sagkeeng, Long Plain, Peguis, Roseau River Anishinabe, Sandy Bay and Swan Lake communities. On 8 November 1873, Winnipeg was incorporated as a city, with the Selkirk settlement as its nucleus. Métis legislator and
Canadian federal election results in Winnipeg Blaikie narrowly retook the seat for the NDP. It was the first time since 1968, and only the second time since the end of World War II, that the centre-right has been completely shut out of Winnipeg in the absence of vote-splitting. Canadian federal election results in Winnipeg __NOEDITSECTION__ This is page shows results of Canadian federal elections in the Winnipeg area. The city of Winnipeg has traditionally been a mixed bag with seats held by all three major parties. The north end of Winnipeg is a very left-leaning area which has some of the strongest New Democratic Party support