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Manitoba fever Hist. 
in the early 1880's, the excitement in eastern Canada which led to extensive migrations to the newly opened-up province of Manitoba.
- 1883 The infernal row you are all making up there about grievances[,] monopolies, squatter's rights, etc. has, together with your last spring's floods and Winnipeg speculations, cooled off the Manitoba fever prevalent in Ontario last year.
- 1883 George, like many of his young compatriots, is smitten with the Manitoban fever, and is off to the land of the setting sun. . . .
- 1963 In the rural districts of the old province [Ontario] . . . the "Manitoba fever" was burning and settlement "parties" were being organized....
- 1883 The infernal row you are all making up there about grievances[,] monopolies, squatter's rights, etc. has, together with your last spring's floods and Winnipeg speculations, cooled off the Manitoba fever prevalent in Ontario last year.