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Portage la Prairie , city (1991 pop. 13,186), S Man., Canada. It is the center of a mixed-farming region and has diversified industries. The city is near the site of Fort La Reine, an important fur-trading post built (1738) by Vérendrye as a carrying point between the Assiniboine River and Lake Manitoba.

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Portage la Prairie, Manitoba/Canada French fur traders coined this name to describe the carriage of their goods across the prairie between the Assiniboine River and Lake Manitoba.

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