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With his provisional government in disarray and Gen. Garnet Wolseley’s army in hot pursuit, Louis Riel fled Fort Garry, which became Winnipeg, to a fur-trading post in North Dakota run by his friend, Antoine Blanc Gingras. The trading post is a tourist site and has tour guides, yet the Canadian government has cut funding for tour guides at the Winnipeg family home of the man dubbed the Father of Manitoba.
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