Assiniboia

Assiniboia, a district of the North-West Territories, Canada, with an area of about 90,000 square miles. It is bounded on the north by Saskatchewan, on the east by Manitoba, on the west by Alberta, and on the south by the United States frontier. The Assiniboine river, which gives its name to the district, after a course of some 500 miles, flows into the Red River above Lake Winnipeg.