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Assiniboia [< Assiniboin < Algonk.: Ojibwa one who cooks with stones] Hist.

• 1 n. See 1958 quote.

  • 1827  (1829)  The extensive savannahs of Asnaboyne, where the wild horses and buffaloes range, are beautiful to behold. . . .
  • 1852  I was informed that in 1848 the natives at the Red River colony of Osnaboya were paid a high money price for their furs . . . and that they immediately crossed the boundary-line to purchase rum at the American post. . . .
  • 1958  The earlier Red River Settlement of Lord Selkirk had the official name of Assiniboia.

• 2 n. a territory west of Manitoba created as one of the Northwest territories in 1882, now forming part of Alberta and of Saskatchewan.

  • 1882  Assiniboia includes Qu'Appelle, South Saskatchewan and South River and Forts Pelley and Ellice.
  • 1920  Had this course been pursued--had Assiniboia . . . been in a position to enter Confederation after negotiations upon terms mutually satisfactory to both parties--many of the bitterest controversies of the last fifty years might have been avoided.

• 3 n. a proposed province on the prairies.

  • 1884  It is understood to be the intention of the Dominion Government this session, to create, by Act of Parliament, three provinces in the North West Territory, besides Manitoba, viz.: Alberta, Assiniboia, and Saskatchewan.