Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. Centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, it is near the longitudinal centre of North America, approximately north of the Canada–United States border. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for muddy water. The region was a trading centre for aboriginal peoples long before the arrival of Europeans. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red
Capital District Health Authority charitable foundation which is chaired by Constance Glube, the 21st Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. The District was an important participant in the 2004 Baker and Norton paper, printed in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Health System error. Capital District Health Authority The Capital District Health Authority (shortened to Capital Health or the Capital Health District) was the largest of the nine health authorities in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. In 2015 it was merged into the new, province-wide Nova Scotia Health Authority. Capital Health was responsible for delivering core health services in the Halifax Regional Municipality and