Saint Boniface

Saint Boniface
a city in SE Manitoba, in S central Canada: suburb of Winnipeg. 46,714.

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      historical district of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, at the confluence of the Seine and Red rivers. It was founded in 1818 upon the site of an earlier settlement by Swiss mercenaries by a group of French missionaries led by Bishop Joseph Norbert Provencher; a chapel was built there to honour St. Boniface. Since then, the community of St. Boniface has become a centre of French Canadian Roman Catholic cultural and religious life. Along the banks of the Red River opposite downtown Winnipeg are the archbishop's palace, St. Boniface College (1818), the Grey Nuns' Convent, St. Boniface General Hospital, and the St. Boniface Cathedral (completed in 1972, this most recent in a series of cathedrals built on the site was constructed from the remains of its predecessor, which was built in 1905–08 but was destroyed by fire in 1968). The grave of Louis Riel (Riel, Louis), the leader of a group of Métis who rebelled against the Canadian government in the 1870s and '80s, is in the cathedral churchyard. St. Boniface is the home of Francophone newspapers and radio and television stations, as well as of the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre. For many years the Union Stockyards were the largest of their kind in Canada, and the Canadian National Railway's Symington Yards are still a major rail-handling facility. In 1972 St. Boniface was absorbed into the city of Winnipeg along with a number of other municipalities.

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