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Manitoba Moose

The Manitoba Moose are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They play in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada at the MTS Centre....

Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 647,797 square kilometres and a population of 1,207,959 , with more than half located within the Winnipeg Capital Region ....
, Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. It is located near the longitudinal

Longitude

Longitude , symbolized by the Greek character lambda , is the geographic coordinate most commonly used in cartography and global navigation for east-west measurement....
centre of North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, at the confluence

Confluence

Confluence may refer to:* Confluence , the point where two or more bodies of water meet and merge* Deformation , the streamline air flow convergence of a fluid air parcel...
of the historic Red

Red River of the North

The Red River is a North American river. Formed by the confluence of the Bois de Sioux River and Otter Tail River rivers in the United States, it flows northward through the Red River Valley and forms the border between the U.S....
and Assiniboine

Assiniboine River

List of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada

The table below lists the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada by population, using data from the Canada 2001 Census and the Canada 2006 Census....
with 694,668 inhabitants, and is Canada's 7th largest municipality

List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population

The table below lists the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population, using data from the Canada Canada 2006 Census for census subdivisions....
with a population of 633,451 (as of the 2006 Census

Canada 2006 Census

The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada population. Census day was May 16 2006. The next census following will be the Canada 2011 Census....
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Quotations

Sweet guinea pig of Winnipeg!

Hermes, from the TV series Futurama

When my dad was playing in Winnipeg in '72-I was about 8 years old-he took me to my first outdoor rink in the winter. My feet were so cold, and then it gets even more excruciating once they start to thaw. It was the most excruciating pain I've ever had.

Brett Hull

Every salvage mission that's been to this system has disappeared. Even those old pirates out at Winnipeg Drift say it's cursed.

The character Harper making a remark in EPISODE 112: The Mathematics of Tears in the TV series Andromeda

You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.

Stephen Harper

With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.

Stephen Leacock Source: My Discovery of the West, 1937 Winnipeg

Encyclopedia

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba

Manitoba

Canada

Longitude

Longitude , symbolized by the Greek character lambda , is the geographic coordinate most commonly used in cartography and global navigation for east-west measurement....
centre of North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, at the confluence

Confluence

Confluence may refer to:* Confluence , the point where two or more bodies of water meet and merge* Deformation , the streamline air flow convergence of a fluid air parcel...
of the historic Red

Red River of the North

Assiniboine River

List of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada

List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population

Canada 2006 Census

The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada population. Census day was May 16 2006. The next census following will be the Canada 2011 Census....
). The CMA population was estimated at 719,200 as of July 1, 2008. A resident of Winnipeg is known as a Winnipegger.

History

Before European exploration

s on the prairie near the Red River Colony, 1858]]

Winnipeg lies at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, known today as "the Forks", a historic focal point on canoe

Canoe

A canoe is a small narrow boat, typically human-powered, though it may also be powered by sails or small electric or gas motors. Canoes usually are pointed at both bow and stern and are normally open on top, but can be covered....
river routes travelled by Aboriginal peoples

Aboriginal peoples in Canada

Aboriginal people in Canada, also known as First Nations, Inuit and M?tis, are people who belong to recognized indigenous groups in the Canada Constitution Act, 1982, Section Twenty-five of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Section Thirty-five of the Constitution Act, 1982, respectively as First Nations, M?tis people , and...
for thousands of years. The name Winnipeg is a transcription of a western Cree

Cree

Cree is one of the largest group of indigenous peoples in North America, located mainly across Canada and historically in the United States from Minnesota westward but are found today in Montana....
word meaning "muddy waters"; the general area was populated for thousands of years by First Nations

First Nations

First Nations is a term of ethnicity that refers to the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor M?tis people....
. Through archaeology, petroglyph

Petroglyph

Petroglyphs are s created by removing part of a Rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images....
s, rock art

Rock art

Rock art is a term in archaeology for any man-made markings made on natural stone. They can be divided into:*Petroglyphs - carvings into stone surfaces...
, ancient artifacts, and oral history, scholars have learned that in prehistoric times, natives used the area for camps, hunting, fishing, trading, and further north, agriculture.

The first farming in Manitoba appeared to have been along the Red River, near present-day Lockport

Lockport, Manitoba

Lockport is a small unincorporated community in Manitoba, Canada located just north of the city of Winnipeg. It is the site of ancient agricultural inhabitation, a migratory bird feeding area as well as a dam and lock of the Red River of the North....
, where corn

Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
and other seed crops were planted before First Nations contact with Europeans. For thousands of years there have been humans living in this region. Numerous archaeological clues have been found about their ways of life. The rivers provided transportation far and wide and linked many peoples-such as the Anishinaabe

Anishinaabe

Anishinaabe or more properly Anishinaabeg or Anishinabek is a self-description often used by the Ottawa , Ojibwa, and Algonquin peoples, who all speak closely-related Anishinaabemowin/Anishinaabe languages....
, Assiniboine

Assiniboine

The Assiniboine, also known by the Ojibwe language name Asiniibwaan "Stone Sioux", and the Cree as Asin?pw?t are a Siouan Native Americans in the United States/First Nations people originally from the Northern Great Plains of the United States and Canada, centered in present-day Saskatchewan; they also populated parts of Alberta, so...
, Mandan

Mandan

The Mandan are a Native Americans in the United States tribe that historically lived along the banks of the Missouri River and two of its tributaries?the Heart River and Knife Rivers?in present-day North Dakota and South Dakota....
, Ojibway, Sioux

Sioux

Sioux are a Native Americans in the United States and First Nations people. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or any of the nation's many dialects....
, Cree

Cree

Cree is one of the largest group of indigenous peoples in North America, located mainly across Canada and historically in the United States from Minnesota westward but are found today in Montana....
, Lakota, and others—for trade and knowledge sharing. The people made mound

Mound

A mound is a general term for an artificial wikt:heaped pile of earth, gravel, sand, rock s, or debris. The most common use is in reference to natural earthen formation such as hills and mountains, particularly if they appear artificial....
s near the waterways, similar to those of the mound builders of the south. Lake Winnipeg was considered to be an inland sea, with important river links to the mountains in the West, the Great Lakes to the East, and the Arctic Ocean in the North. The Red River linked ancient northern peoples with those to the south along the Missouri

Missouri River

The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, and the longest river in the United States of America. The Missouri begins at the confluence of the Madison River, Jefferson River, and Gallatin River rivers in Montana, and flows through Missouri River Valley south and east into the Mississippi north of St....
and Mississippi River

Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico....
s. The Ojibway made some of the first maps on birch bark

Birch bark

Birch bark or birchbark is generally understood to be the bark of the Paper Birch tree , or sometimes of related species such as Gray Birch ....
, which helped fur traders find their way along the rivers and lakes.

Settlement

, with Upper Fort Garry in the background, early 1870s]]

The first French officer arrived in the area in 1738. Sieur de la Vérendrye

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La V?rendrye was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer....
built the first fur trading post

Trading post

A trading post is a place where the Trade of product takes place. The preferred travel route to a trading post, or between trading posts, is known as a trade route....
on the site, called Fort Rouge

Fort Rouge (fortification)

Fort Rouge was a fort located on the Assiniboine River in Manitoba, Canada, on the site of what is now the city of Winnipeg. Its exact location is unknown....
. Their traders continued there for several decades before the arrival of the Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

Metis

Metis meant "cunningness" or "craft, skill" in Ancient Greek.Metis may also refer to:* Metis , a Titaness and the first wife of Zeus...
, hunted, traded, and lived in the general area for decades. Growing up bilingual, they often took prominent roles between cultures as settlement expanded.

Lord Selkirk was involved with the first permanent settlement (Red River Colony

Red River Colony

The Red River Colony was a colonization project set up by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk in 1811 on 300,000 km? of land granted to him by the Hudson's Bay Company under what is referred to as the Selkirk Concession....
), purchase of land from the Hudson's Bay Company, and a survey of river lots in the early 1800s. The North West Company

North West Company

The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal, Quebec from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in what was to become Western Canada....
built Fort Gibraltar

Fort Gibraltar

In the early 19th century fur trade was the main industry of Western Canada. Two companies had an intense competition over the trade. The first, the Hudson's Bay Company was a London, England-based organization....
in 1809, and the Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

Fort Douglas (Canada)

Fort Douglas was a fort of the Hudson's Bay Company that was built by Scotland and Ireland settlers in 1812 in what is today Winnipeg, Manitoba....
in 1812. The two companies fought fiercely over trade in the area, and each destroyed some of the other's forts over the course of several battles. The Métis

Metis

Metis meant "cunningness" or "craft, skill" in Ancient Greek.Metis may also refer to:* Metis , a Titaness and the first wife of Zeus...
and Lord Selkirk's settlers fought a battle at the historic Battle of Seven Oaks

Battle of Seven Oaks (1816)

The Battle of Seven Oaks took place on June 19 1816 during the long dispute between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur trade companies in western Canada....
site. In 1821, the Hudson's Bay and North West Companies ended their long rivalry with a merger. Fort Gibraltar, at the site of present-day Winnipeg, was renamed Fort Garry

Fort Garry

Fort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red River of the North and Assiniboine River rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba....
in 1822 and became the leading post in the region for the Hudson’s Bay Company. The fort was destroyed by a flood in 1826, and it was not rebuilt until 1835. The fort was the residence of the Governor of the company for many years. It became a part of the first major colony and settlement in western Canada.

In 1869–70, Winnipeg was the site of the Red River Rebellion

Red River Rebellion

The Red River Rebellion or Red River Resistance are names given to the events surrounding the actions of a provisional government established by M?tis people leader Louis Riel in 1869 at the Red River Settlement in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba....
, a conflict between the local provisional government of Métis

Métis people (Canada)

The M?tis are descendants of marriages of Cree, Inuit, Ojibway, Algonquin, Saulteaux, Menominee, and other indigenous peoples of the Americas to Europeans and other ethnicities from around the world, and are one of three officially-recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada, the other two being the First Nations and Inuit....
, led by Louis Riel

Louis Riel

Louis David Riel was a Politics of Canada, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the M?tis people people of the Canadian prairies....
, and newcomers from eastern Canada. General Garnet Wolseley

Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley

Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley Order of St Patrick Order of the Bath Order of Merit Order of St Michael and St George Volunteer Decoration Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom army officer....
was sent to put down the rebellion. This rebellion led directly to Manitoba's entry into the Canadian Confederation

Canadian Confederation

Canadian Confederation was the process by which the federalism Dominion of Canada was formed beginning July 1, 1867 from the provinces, colony and Territory of British North America....
as Canada's fifth province

Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the List of countries and outlying territories by total area. The major difference between a Canada province and a territory is that a province receives its power and authority directly from the Monarchy in Canada, via the Constitution Act, 1867, whereas territories derive their manda...
in 1870. On November 8, 1873, Winnipeg was incorporated as a city. Manitoba and Northwest Territories legislator James McKay named the settlement.

Late 1800s and early 1900s

in 1887 (at Pioneer Avenue, looking north through Portage and Main

Portage and Main

File:Crowds of Winnipeggers wave at His Majesty King George VI and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.jpgPortage and Main is an intersection in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....
). The horse-car lines would be supplemented by a second set of tracks of the Winnipeg Electric Street Railway in 1892]]

With the recent Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway , known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canada Class I railroad operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited....
came many travellers, settlers, and businessmen to the new city. Agriculture was a booming industry, and many made massive fortunes on the prairies. Bonanza

Bonanza

Bonanza is an United States television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons, it is among the longest running Western television series and continues to air in syndication....
farms were common at the time further south in the United States. Canada was also eager to settle the west before American interests and railways interfered in any way. Winnipeg developed rapidly after the coming of the railroad in 1881, allowing it to take on its distinctive multicultural

Multiculturalism

The term multiculturalism generally refer to an applied ideology of Race , culture and Ethnic group diversity within the demographics of a specified place, usually at the scale of an organization such as a school, business, neighborhood, city or nation....
character. The Manitoba Legislative Building

Manitoba Legislative Building

The Manitoba Legislative Building is the meeting place of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, in central Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was originally named the Manitoba Parliament Building, not Legislative....
reflects the optimism of the boom years. Built mainly of Tyndall Stone

Tyndall Stone

Tyndall stone is a dolomite limestone quarry from the Selkirk member of the Ordovician Red River Formation, in the vicinity of Tyndall, Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada....
and opened in 1920, its dome supports a bronze statue finished in gold leaf titled, "Eternal Youth and the Spirit of Enterprise" (commonly known as the "Golden Boy

Golden Boy (Manitoba)

The Golden Boy statue is 5.25 metres tall from the toe to the top of the torch and 4.27 metres from head to toe. It weighs 1650 kg , and the top of his torch is 77 metres above ground....
"). Many new lots of land were sold, and prices increased fast due to high demand. The real estate boom eventually slowed down, and Vancouver soon became the third largest city.

Winnipeg faced financial difficulty when the Panama Canal

Panama Canal

The Panama Canal is a man-made canal which joins the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean oceans. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, it had an enormous impact on shipping between the two oceans, replacing the long and treacherous route via the Drake Passage and Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South Am...
opened in 1914. The canal reduced reliance on Canada's rail system for international trade, and the increase in ship traffic helped Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city in British Columbia and the second largest metropolitan area in the Pacific Northwest region....
eventually surpass Winnipeg to become Canada's third-largest city in the 1950s.

Following World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, owing to a postwar recession, appalling labour conditions, and the presence of radical union organizers and a large influx of returning soldiers, 35,000 Winnipeggers walked off the job in May 1919 in what came to be known as the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. After many arrests, deportations, and incidents of violence, the strike ended on June 21, 1919, when the Riot Act

Riot Act

The Riot Act was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Great Britain which authorised Local government in the United Kingdom to declare any group of more than twelve people to be unlawfully assembled, and thus have to disperse or face punitive action....
was read and a group of RCMP

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is the federal police, national police, and paramilitary police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world....
officers charged a group of strikers. Two strikers were killed and at least thirty others were injured, resulting in the day being known as Bloody Saturday; the lasting effect was a polarized population. One of the leaders of the strike, J. S. Woodsworth

J. S. Woodsworth

James Shaver Woodsworth was a pioneer in the Canada social democracy movement. Following more than two decades ministering to the poor and the working class, J....
, went on to found Canada's first major socialist party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canada political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialism, farm, co-operative and labour movement groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction....
(CCF), which would later become the NDP

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party is a political party in Canada with a progressivism social democracy philosophy that contests elections at both the federal and provincial levels....
.

The stock market crash of 1929 only hastened an already steep decline in Winnipeg; the Great Depression

Great Depression

File:International depression.pngThe Great Depression was a worldwide economic Recession starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries....
resulted in massive unemployment, which was worsened by drought

Drought

A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation ....
and depressed agricultural prices. The Depression ended when World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
started in 1939. In Winnipeg, the old established armouries of Minto, Tuxedo (Fort Osborne), and McGregor were so crowded that the military had to take over other buildings to increase capacity.

The end of World War II brought a new sense of optimism in Winnipeg. Pent-up demand brought a boom in housing development, but building activity came to a halt due to the 1950 Red River Flood, the largest flood to hit Winnipeg since 1861; the flood held waters above flood stage for 51 days. On May 8, 1950, eight dikes collapsed, four of the city's eleven bridges were destroyed, and nearly 100,000 people had to be evacuated, making it Canada's largest evacuation in history. The federal government estimated damages at over $26-million, although the province insisted it was at least double that..

Amalgamation to present

Prior to 1972, Winnipeg was the largest of thirteen cities and towns in a metropolitan area around the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Unicity

Unicity

Unicity came into existence in the Greater Winnipeg area in 1972. It was an innovative experiment in local government reform that established the City of Winnipeg as one unified city....
was created on July 27, 1971 and took effect with the first elections in 1972. The City of Winnipeg Act

City of Winnipeg Act

The City of Winnipeg Act was enacted on July 21, 1971 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The act incorporated the municipalities of Charleswood, Manitoba, Fort Garry, Manitoba, North Kildonan, Old Kildonan, Tuxedo, Manitoba, East Kildonan, West Kildonan, St....
incorporated the current city of Winnipeg: the municipalities of Transcona, St. Boniface

Saint Boniface, Manitoba

Saint Boniface is an area of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, home to the Franco-Manitoban community. It features such landmarks as the St. Boniface Cathedral, Boulevard Provencher, the Provencher Bridge, Esplanade Riel, St....
, St. Vital, West Kildonan

West Kildonan

West Kildonan is a residential suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba, lying on the west side of the Red River of the North, and immediately north of the old City of Winnipeg....
, East Kildonan, Tuxedo, Old Kildonan

Old Kildonan

The Rural Municipality of Old Kildonan was originally part of the Rural Municipality of Kildonan, which was formed in 1876 in Manitoba.This was part of the Red River Settlement, and originally rivalled Fort Garry in the Winnipeg area....
, North Kildonan

North Kildonan

North Kildonan is a neighborhood of Winnipeg, in Manitoba, Canada....
, Fort Garry, Charleswood, and St. James

St. James-Assiniboia

St. James-Assiniboia was formerly the St. James, Manitoba, the Assiniboia, Manitoba, and the Village of Brooklands, Manitoba. The three communities, just outside the City of Winnipeg, joined together in the 1960s to form the City of St....
, were amalgamated with the Old City of Winnipeg.

Immediately following the 1979 energy crisis

1979 energy crisis

The 1979 oil crisis in the United States occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. Amid massive protests, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fled his country in early 1979, allowing Ayatollah Khomeini to gain control....
, Winnipeg experienced a severe economic downturn in advance of the early 1980s recession

Early 1980s recession

The early 1980s recession was a severe recession in the United States which began in July 1981 and ended in November 1982. The primary cause of the recession was a contractionary monetary policy established by the Federal Reserve System to control high inflation....
. Throughout the recession, the city incurred closures of prominent businesses such as the Winnipeg Tribune

Winnipeg Tribune

The Winnipeg Tribune was a metropolitan daily newspaper serving Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada from January 28, 1890 to August 27, 1980....
and the Swift's

Swift & Company

Swift & Company, the wholly-owned operating subsidiary of privately-held Fortune 500 listed S&C Holdco 3, Inc. is the world's third-largest processor of fresh beef and pork, with nearly US$10 billion in annual sales as of 2007....
and Canada Packers

Canada Packers

Canada Packers was the largest meat packing and meat processing company in Canada, located in Ontario. It is now part of Maple Leaf Foods through a merger with Maple Leaf Mills....
meat packing plants

Meat packing industry

The meat packing industry is an industry that handles the Slaughter , processing and Distribution of animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock....
. In 1981, Winnipeg was one of the first cities in Canada to sign a tripartite agreement to redevelop its downtown area. The three levels of government—federal, provincial and municipal—have contributed over $271-million to the development needs of downtown Winnipeg over the past 20 years. The funding was instrumental in attracting Portage Place

Portage Place

Portage Place is a mixed-use shopping centre located on the north side of Portage Avenue, between Vaughan and Carlton Streets in Downtown Winnipeg Winnipeg....
mall, which comprises the headquarters of Investors Group

IGM Financial

IGM Financial Inc. is a Canadian financial services company, with $101.7 billion in total assets under management at the end of 2008 .The company offers financial planning, mutual funds and a range of other investment products and financial services....
, the offices of Air Canada

Air Canada

Air Canada is Canada's largest airline and flag carrier. The airline, founded in 1936, provides scheduled and charter air transportation for passengers and cargo to 160 destinations worldwide....
, and several apartment complexes. In 1989, the reclamation and redevelopment of the CNR

Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway is a Canada Class I railroad operated by the Canadian National Railway Company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec....
rail yard

Rail yard

File:Santa Fe RR Yard fsac.1a34717u detail.jpgA rail yard, or railroad yard, is a complex series of railroad Rail tracks for storing, sorting, or loading/unloading, railroad cars and/or locomotives....
s at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers turned The Forks into Winnipeg's most popular tourist attraction.

Geography

Winnipeg lays at the bottom a low lying flood plain in the Red River Valley

Red River Valley

The Red River Valley is a region in central North America that is drained by the Red River of the North. It is significant in the geography of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba for its relatively fertile lands and the population centers of Fargo, North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Winnipeg, Manitoba....
, which has an extremely flat topography, as there are no substantial hills in the city or its vicinity. Winnipeg is also on the eastern edge of the Canadian Prairies

Canadian Prairies

The Canadian Prairies is a list of regions of Canada of Canada, specifically in Western Canada, which may correspond to several different definitions, natural or political....
, which allows it to be relatively close to many large Canadian shield lakes and parks, as well as Lake Winnipeg

Lake Winnipeg

Lake Winnipeg is a very large lake in central North America, in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Manitoba, Canada, about north of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba....
(the earth's 11th largest freshwater lake). According to the Census geographic units of Canada, the city has a total area of 464.01 km² (179.2 sq mi), and has a total elevation of 238 m (781 ft).

Winnipeg has four major rivers, the Red River

Red River of the North

Assiniboine River

La Salle River

Starting near Portage La Prairie, Manitoba and terminating in the Red River in Saint Norbert, . The La Salle River flows, predominantly, through agricultural land....
, and the Seine River

Seine River (Manitoba)

The Seine is a river that runs through the southeastern section of the province of Manitoba, Canada. It is one of the four rivers of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba....
(the Red River is now considered a Canadian heritage river

Canadian Heritage Rivers System

The Canadian Heritage Rivers System was established in 1984 by the federal, provincial and territorial governments to conserve and protect the best examples of Canada's river heritage, to give them national recognition, and to encourage the public to enjoy and appreciate them....
). The Red is home to the largest average size of channel catfish in the world; and according to Guinness world Records, Winnipeg has laid claim to the title of "World's Longest Skating Rink", along the Red and Assiniboine rivers.

Climate

Winnipeg lies near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the historic Red River

Red River of the North

Assiniboine River

Canadian Prairies

Humid continental climate

The humid continental climate is a climate found over large areas of land masses in the temperate climates of the mid-latitudes where there is a zone of conflict between North Pole and Tropics air masses....
(Koppen climate classification Dfb) with moderate precipitation and extremes of hot and cold. Summers can be very humid, with moist air riding up from the Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world. Considered a smaller part of the Atlantic Ocean, it is an oceanic basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba....
, and with the humidex

Humidex

The humidex is a measurement used by Canada meteorology to reflect the combined effect of heat and humidity. It differs from the heat index used in the United States in using dew point rather than relative humidity....
the Winnipeg area (near Carman

Carman, Manitoba

Carman is an Agricultureal town of about 3,000 people that lies in the Pembina Valley Region, Manitoba of southern Manitoba. Carman is located at the junction of Highways 3 and 13, just 40 minutes southwest of Winnipeg ....
) has reached 53, breaking Canada's old humidex record. Winters vary from mild days to bitterly cold, and with the wind chill

Wind chill

Wind chill is the Felt air temperature felt on exposed skin due to wind. The degree of this phenomenon depends on both air temperature and wind speed....
the city has reached -57.1.

Winnipeg has a USDA Plant Hardiness Zone

Hardiness zone

A hardiness zone is shown on the scale to our right; or usually shown on a map . These zones show a geographically-defined area in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing, as defined by climatic conditions, including it's ability to withstand the minimum temperatures of the zone....
of 3a. A typical year will see an extreme range of temperatures from -35°C (-31°F) to 35°C (95°F), though both colder and warmer temperatures have been recorded. Typically winter temperatures range from -10 to -25°C, and has 58 days a year where the temperature is -20°C or less. The city is also ranked fourth among Canada with 49 wind chill days at -30 or less. Summer temperatures typically range from 20 to 30°C, and can be very humid with frequent thunderstorms, with 45 days a year where the humidex reaches above 30, and 14 days a year where the temperature reaches above 30°C (compared to Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
's 13 days).

Winnipeg's spring and fall tend to be rather contracted seasons, each averaging little over six weeks. In general the weather during these seasons is highly variable, and rapidly changing. For example, temperatures in Winnipeg in April have ranged from -26.3 °C (-15 °F) to 34.3 °C (94 °F), and in October from -20.6 °C (-5.1 °F) to 30.5 °C (86.9 °F). Some snow in spring and autumn is normal. Similarly, late heat waves as well as Indian summer

Indian summer

Indian summer is a name given to a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter. Usually occurring after the first frost, Indian summer can be in September, October, or early November in the northern hemisphere, and March, April, or early May in the Southern hemisphere....
s are a regular feature of the climate.

Winnipeg is also a sunny city, and all seasons are characterized by an abundance of sunshine. Winnipeg is ranked 6th overall for Canada's sunniest city year round, with 2,727 hours of bright sunshine. Winnipeg also has Canada's second-clearest skies year-round (second to only Estevan

Estevan, Saskatchewan

Estevan is the eighth largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located at , which is near the southeastern corner of the province. The Souris River runs by the city....
) and is the second sunniest city in Canada in the spring and winter.

Destructive weather events such as tornadoes, flooding, heat waves, droughts, hail, blizzard

Blizzard

A blizzard is a severe winter storm condition characterized by low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy blowing snow. Blizzards are formed when a high pressure area, also known as a ridge, interacts with a low pressure area; this results in the advection of air from the high pressure zone into the low pressure area....
s, freezing rain, extreme wind chills, fog, and sleet

Sleet

Sleet may refer to:*Rain and snow mixed, particularly in countries where British English is spoken*Ice pellets, mainly within the United States...
; have all occurred within or near the Winnipeg area. Like Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
, Winnipeg is also known as a windy city; however both Regina

Regina, Saskatchewan

Regina is the capital of Saskatchewan, Canada. The city is the second largest in the province , and is a cultural and commercial metropole for both southern Saskatchewan and adjacent areas in the neighbouring American states of North Dakota and Montana....
and Hamilton

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the James Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe....
are windier. The city has experienced wind gusts of up to 129 km/h (80 mph). The average annual wind speed is 16.9 km/h (10.5 mph), predominantly from the south. Tornado

Tornado

A tornado is a violent, rotating column of air which is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud....
es are not uncommon in the area, particularly in the spring and summer months; the strongest tornado ever recorded in Canada (Fujita Scale F5

Elie, Manitoba Tornado

The Elie, Manitoba Tornado was an Fujita Scale tornado that struck the town of Elie, Manitoba on June 22, 2007. While several houses were leveled, no one was injured or killed by the tornado....
), hit Elie

Elie, Manitoba

Elie is the largest community in the Rural Municipality of Cartier in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The town of approximately 550 people is located approximately 30 km west of Winnipeg along the Trans-Canada Highway....
, just 40 km (25 miles) west of Winnipeg in 2007

Tornadoes of 2007

This page documents the tornadoes and tornado outbreaks that occurred in 2007, primarily in the United States. Most tornadoes form in the U.S., although some events may take place internationally, particularly in parts of neighboring southern Canada during the summer season....
. As Winnipeg sits at the bottom of a flood plain, it can also be prone to flooding in the spring; major floods include the 1950 Red River Flood, and the 1997 Red River Flood .

Cityscape

There are 228 neighbourhoods in Winnipeg according to the 1996 Census

Census in Canada

The Constitution of Canada gives the Government of Canada exclusive responsibility for conducting a census.The Census in Canada began with the country's first census in 1666....
. Downtown Winnipeg

Downtown Winnipeg

Downtown Winnipeg is centred around Portage and Main, and is bounded by the Assiniboine River on the south, Colony and Balmoral Streets on the west, Notre Dame Avenue, Princess Street, and Logan Avenue on the north, and the Red River of the North on the east....
(the financial heart of the city) is centred at the intersection of Portage Avenue and Main Street

Portage and Main

File:Crowds of Winnipeggers wave at His Majesty King George VI and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.jpgPortage and Main is an intersection in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....
about one kilometre (0.6 mile) from The Forks

The Forks, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Forks is a historic site and meeting place in Downtown Winnipeg Winnipeg located at the Confluence of the Red River of the North and Assiniboine River....
of the Red and Assiniboine River

Assiniboine River

The Assiniboine River is a long river that runs through the prairies of Western Canada in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.It is a typical meandering river with a single main channel embanked within a flat, shallow valley at some places, and a steep valley at other places....
. From this intersection, reputed to be the windiest in Canada (and widely recognized as the most famous intersection in Canada), all roads radiate outwards. Downtown Winnipeg covers an area of about one square mile (2.5 km²) which is large for a city this size. Surrounding the downtown area are various residential neighbourhoods. Urban development spreads in all directions from downtown but is greatest to the south and west, and has tended to follow the course of the two major rivers. The urbanized area in Winnipeg is about 25 km (15 mi) from east to west and 20 km (12 mi) from north to south, although there is still much land available for development within the city limits.

Winnipeg is also known for its urban forest, particularly its beautiful American Elm

American Elm

Ulmus americana, generally known as the American Elm or, less commonly, as the White Elm or Water Elm, is a species native to eastern North America, occurring from Nova Scotia west as far as British Columbia, from northern Alberta at the top of its range, south to Florida and central Texas....
trees. The two major parks in the city, Assiniboine Park

Assiniboine Park

File:Grizzly Bear Winnipegzoo.jpgAssiniboine Park is a park in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was established in 1904 and is located north of the Assiniboine Forest....
and Kildonan Park

Kildonan Park

Kildonan Park is a park in north Winnipeg, Manitoba established in 1909 by a Polish Canadian. It features the Peguis Pavilion, Rainbow Stage, the Witches' Hut - a house that shows the story of Hansel and Gretel - a full-size outdoor swimming pool, and a fun-sized wading pool....
, are both located in the suburbs. The major commercial areas are Polo Park

Polo Park

Polo Park is Winnipeg's largest retail and entertainment district. Largest mall out of the eight malls in the city. Situated on the former Polo Park Racetrack, the Polo Park Mall was one of the first enclosed shopping malls in Canada....
(West End and St. James), Kildonan Crossing (Transcona and East Kildonan), South St. Vital, and Garden City (West Kildonan). The main cultural and nightlife areas are the Exchange District

Exchange District

The Exchange District is a National Historic Site in the Downtown Winnipeg of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Just north of Canada's most famous corner, Portage and Main, approximately 20-city blocks made of up nearly 150 building compose Winnipeg?s Exchange District....
, The Forks

The Forks, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Forks is a historic site and meeting place in Downtown Winnipeg Winnipeg located at the Confluence of the Red River of the North and Assiniboine River....
, Osborne Village

Osborne Village

Osborne Village derived its names from the Fort Osborne Barracks of the The Second Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry....
and Little Italy

Little Italy, Winnipeg

Little Italy is a vibrant district in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is located on Corydon Avenue between Winnipeg Route 70 in the west, and Winnipeg Route 42 in the east....
(both are in Fort Rouge), Sargent and Ellice Avenues (West End) and Old St. Boniface. Osborne Village (the city's most densely populated neighbourhood) is also Western Canada's second most densely populated neighbourhood, and was voted the Best Place to Live in Uptown Magazine's 2008 Best of List.

Downtown Winnipeg's major neighborhoods include, The Waterfront District, The Forks

The Forks, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Forks is a historic site and meeting place in Downtown Winnipeg Winnipeg located at the Confluence of the Red River of the North and Assiniboine River....
, Central Park

Central Park (Winnipeg)

Central Park is a large urban park located in Downtown Winnipeg, and forms the heart of the neighbourhood of the same name. The area is bound by Notre Dame Ave....
, Broadway-Assiniboine, the Exchange District

Exchange District

National historic site

A national historic site is a designation that an area possesses national historical significance. It may confer protected area status on the site, but not necessarily....
), and Chinatown

Chinatown, Winnipeg

The Chinatown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada was formed in 1909. It is on King Street between James and Higgins Avenues, and was officially recognized in 1968. Some 20,000 Han Chinese live in the Winnipeg area....
. Downtown Winnipeg

Downtown Winnipeg

Downtown Winnipeg is centred around Portage and Main, and is bounded by the Assiniboine River on the south, Colony and Balmoral Streets on the west, Notre Dame Avenue, Princess Street, and Logan Avenue on the north, and the Red River of the North on the east....
is home to many of the city's main attractions, like Canwest Park and The Forks. Much of Downtown Winnipeg is linked with the Winnipeg Walkway

Winnipeg Walkway

The Winnipeg Walkway System, popularly known as the Winnipeg Skywalk, is a network of pedestrian skyways and tunnels connecting a significant portion of the Downtown Winnipeg in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....
, which is an elevated skywalk linking such places as the MTS Centre

MTS Centre

The MTS Centre is an indoor arena at 300 Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada, at the former Eaton%27s#The_Winnipeg_store site....
, Millennium Library

Millennium Library (Winnipeg)

The Millennium Library is the main branch of the Winnipeg Public Library located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was previously known as the Centennial Library ....
, Cityplace

Cityplace (Winnipeg)

Cityplace is an office and retail complex situated in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is comprised mainly of the former Eaton's company mail-order warehouse building that occupies the block bounded by Hargrave and Donald Streets, and Graham and St....
, Winnipeg Square

Winnipeg Square

Winnipeg Square is a mall in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was built in 1979 by Trizec Corporation in downtown Winnipeg. In 2009, the mall at Portage and Main is home to 45 stores and restaurants....
, and Portage Place

Portage Place

Portage Place is a mixed-use shopping centre located on the north side of Portage Avenue, between Vaughan and Carlton Streets in Downtown Winnipeg Winnipeg....
mall.

Demographics

Ethnic Origins
	Population	Percentage
English English people The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....	141,480	22.6
Scottish Scottish people The Scots people are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.Historically, as an ethnic group, they emerged from an amalgamation of Celts, Picts, Gaels and Brythons....	114,960	18.4
German Germans The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....	106,260	17.0
Canadian Demographics of Canada This article is about the demographics features of the population of Canada, including population density, Ethnic group, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....	104,130	16.6
Ukrainian Ukrainians Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....	96,255	15.4
French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	87,165	13.9
Irish Irish people The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...	86,580	13.9
Polish	50,555	8.1
Visible minorities
	Population	Percentage
Total	101,910	16.3
Filipino Filipino people Filipino people refers to an ethnic group in the Philippines, a country in Southeast Asia. The name Filipino was derived from Las Islas Filipinas , the Spanish language name given to the Philippines in the 16th century, by Spanish explorer Ruy L?pez de Villalobos....	36,820	5.9
South Asian Asian people Asian or Asiatic people is a demonym for people from Asia. However, the use of the term varies by country and person, often referring to people from a particular region or subregion of Asia....	15,080	2.4
Black Black people Black people is a term usually referring to a Race of humans with a dark skin color, but the term has also been used to categorise a number of diverse populations into one common group....	14,200	2.3
Chinese Chinese people The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People who reside in and hold citizenship of the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China or the Republic of China ....	12,660	2.0
Latin American Latin America Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....	5,390	0.9
Southeast Asian Asian people Asian or Asiatic people is a demonym for people from Asia. However, the use of the term varies by country and person, often referring to people from a particular region or subregion of Asia....	5,325	0.9
Multiple	3,060	0.5
Arab Arab An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....	2,115	0.3
Korean	2,065	0.3
West Asian Asian people Asian or Asiatic people is a demonym for people from Asia. However, the use of the term varies by country and person, often referring to people from a particular region or subregion of Asia....	1,885	0.3
Japanese Japanese people The are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan....	1,725	0.3
Other	1,585	0.3
Aboriginal identity Aboriginal peoples in Canada Aboriginal people in Canada, also known as First Nations, Inuit and M?tis, are people who belong to recognized indigenous groups in the Canada Constitution Act, 1982, Section Twenty-five of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Section Thirty-five of the Constitution Act, 1982, respectively as First Nations, M?tis people , and...
	Population	Percentage
Total	119,090	20.1
Métis Métis people (Canada) The M?tis are descendants of marriages of Cree, Inuit, Ojibway, Algonquin, Saulteaux, Menominee, and other indigenous peoples of the Americas to Europeans and other ethnicities from around the world, and are one of three officially-recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada, the other two being the First Nations and Inuit....	42,180	5.97
North American Indian First Nations First Nations is a term of ethnicity that refers to the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor M?tis people....	76,155	10.0
Inuit Inuit Inuit is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada, Greenland, Russia and Alaska, United States....	755	0.04

According to the 2006 Census

Canada 2006 Census

The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada population. Census day was May 16 2006. The next census following will be the Canada 2011 Census....
, there were 633,451 people residing in Winnipeg itself and a total of 694,668 inhabitants in the Winnipeg Census Metropolitan Area on 16 May 2006, and 711,455 in the Winnipeg Capital Region making it Manitoba’s largest city and the eighth largest CMA in Canada. Of the city population, 48.3% were male and 51.7% were female. 24.3% were 19 years old or younger, people aged by 20 and 39 years accounted for 27.4%, and those between 40 and 64 made up 34.0% of the population. The average age of a Winnipegger in May 2006 was 38.7, compared to an average of 39.5 for Canada as a whole.

Between the censuses of 2001

Canada 2001 Census

The Canada 2001 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada population. Census day was May 15 2001. On that day, Statistics Canada attempted to count every person in Canada....
and 2006, Winnipeg's population increased by 2.2%, compared to the average of 2.6% for Manitoba and 5.4% for Canada. The population density

Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
of the city of Winnipeg averaged 1,365.2 people per square kilometre, compared with an average of 3.5 for Manitoba.

Of Winnipeg’s total population, 61,217 citizens live in the city’s Census Metropolitan Area, which apart from Winnipeg includes the Rural municipalities

Rural municipality

A rural municipality, often abbreviated RM, is a form of municipality in the Canada provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, perhaps best comparable to counties or Civil township in the western United States....
of East St. Paul

East St. Paul, Manitoba

East St. Paul is a rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada. It is located north east and adjacent to the city of Winnipeg, and is part of Winnipeg's Metropolitan Area....
, Headingley, Ritchot

Ritchot, Manitoba

Ritchot is a rural municipality lying adjacent to the south side of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is part of the Winnipeg Capital Region, Manitoba and had a population of 4,958 as of the Canada 2001 Census....
, Rosser

Rosser, Manitoba

Rosser, Manitoba is a rural municipality lying adjacent to the northwest side of Winnipeg, Manitoba at . It is part of the Winnipeg Capital Region, Manitoba....
, Springfield

Springfield, Manitoba

File:BirdsHillParkpicnic.jpgSpringfield is Manitoba's oldest and largest rural municipality. Established in 1873, Springfield stretches from urban industrial development on the eastern boundary of the Winnipeg, Manitoba, through urban, rural residential, agricultural and natural landscapes, to the Agassiz Provincial Forest on the municipali...
, St. Clements

St. Clements, Manitoba

St. Clements is a rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada. It is located to the north-east of Winnipeg, stretching from East St. Paul, Manitoba and Birds Hill Provincial Park in the south to Lake Winnipeg and Grand Beach Provincial Park to the north....
, St. François Xavier

St. François Xavier, Manitoba

St. Fran?ois Xavier is a rural municipality lying west-northwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is part of the Winnipeg Capital Region, Manitoba and had a Canada 2001 Census population of 1,024....
, Taché

Taché, Manitoba

Tach? is a rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada. It is located to the south-east of Winnipeg, stretching from the Red River Floodway in the west to the beginning of the Canadian Shield in the east....
and West St. Paul

West St. Paul, Manitoba

West St. Paul is a rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada. It lies adjacent to the north side of Winnipeg, and directly west of the Red River of the North....
, and the Aboriginal community

List of Aboriginal communities in Canada

The following is a list of Indian reserves in Canada, which are sometimes incorrectly called by the American term "Indian reservation"....
of Brokenhead.

Ethnicity

Ethnic diversity is an important part of Winnipeg's culture. Most Winnipeggers are of European or Canadian descent. Visible minorities

Visible minority

Visible minority is a term used primarily in Canada to describe persons who are not of the majority Race in a given population.The term is used as a demographic category by Statistics Canada in connection with that country's multiculturalism policies, which are based on race rather than ethnicity....
make up 16.3% of Winnipeg's population. Winnipeg is home to 38,155 people of Filipino

Filipino people

Filipino people refers to an ethnic group in the Philippines, a country in Southeast Asia. The name Filipino was derived from Las Islas Filipinas , the Spanish language name given to the Philippines in the 16th century, by Spanish explorer Ruy L?pez de Villalobos....
descent, or roughly 6% of the total population, the highest concentration of persons of Filipino origin in Canada, and the second largest Filipino population in Canada after Toronto.

Language

More than 100 languages are spoken in Winnipeg; the most common is English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
, in which 99.0% of Winnipeggers are fluent

Fluency

fluency is the property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise....
. In terms of Canada's official language

Official language

An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other territory. Typically a nation's official language will be the one used in that nation's courts, parliament and administration....
s, 88.0% of Winnipeggers speak only English, and 0.1% speak only French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
. 11% speak both English and French, while 0.9% speak neither English nor French. Other languages spoken in Winnipeg include German

German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
(spoken by 4.1% of the population), Tagalog

Filipino language

The Filipino language is the national language and an official language of the Philippines as designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is an Austronesian language that is the de facto standard language of Tagalog language....
(3.4%), Ukrainian

Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....
(3.1%), Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
, Chinese

Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
and Polish

Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
(all three spoken by 1.7% of the population), as well as Aboriginal languages including Ojibway (0.6%), Cree

Cree language

Cree is the name for a group of closely-related Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 117,000 people across Canada, from the Northwest Territories to Labrador, making it by far the most spoken Native American languages in Canada....
(0.5%), Inuktitut

Inuktitut

Inuktitut is the name of the varieties of Inuit language spoken in Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the tree line, including parts of the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, to some extent in northeastern Manitoba as well as the territories of Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and traditionally on the Arctic Ocean coa...
and Mi'kmaq

Mi'kmaq

The M?kmaq , traditionally spelled Micmac in English, but Mi?kmaq by the M?kmaq of Nova Scotia, Miigmaq by the M?kmaq of New Brunswick, Mi?gmaq by the Listuguj Council in Quebec, or M?gmaq in some native literature, are a First Nations people, indigenous to northeastern New England, Canada's Atlantic Provin...
(both less than 0.1%). Other languages spoken in Winnipeg include Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
, Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, Icelandic

Icelandic language

Icelandic is a North Germanic languages, the language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese language and Norwegian dialects such as Telemark dialect and Sognam?l....
, Punjabi

Punjabi language

'Punjabi' , , is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region and their diasporas. Speakers include adherents of the religions of Islam, Sikhism and Hinduism....
, Vietnamese

Vietnamese language

Vietnamese , formerly known under French colonization as Annamese , is the national language and official language language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people , who constitute 86% of Demographics of Vietnam, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese, most of whom live in the United States....
, Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a Central_Indo-Aryan_languages#Central_Zone_.28Madhya_or_Hindi.29 Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-Iranian languages, belonging to the Indo-European languages family of languages....
, Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, also known as High Hindi, Nagari Hindi or Literary Hindi is a Standard language register of Hindi. It is one of the 22 official languages of India, and is used, along with English language, for administration of the central government....
, Russian

Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
, Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
, Non-verbal languages

Sign language

A sign language is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns to convey meaning—simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to express fluidly a speaker's thoughts....
, Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
, Serbian

Serbian language

name=Serbian|nativename=|pronunciation=['sr?pski?]|familycolor=Indo-European|map=|states=See below under "Official status", besides that in Croatia and as an immigrant's language spread over Central Europe and Western Europe, as well as Northern America...
, Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
, Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic languages unrelated to most other languages in Europe. It is mainly spoken in Hungary and by the Hungarian minorities in the seven neighbouring countries....
, Japanese

Japanese language

IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....
, Creole

Creole language

A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable language that originates seemingly as a nativization pidgin. This understanding of creole genesis culminated in Robert A....
, Danish

Danish language

Danish is one of the North Germanic languages , a sub-group of the Germanic languages branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in Denmark; the language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany where it holds the status of minority language....
, and Gaelic language

Goidelic languages

The Goidelic languages, , historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from the south of Ireland, through the Isle of Man, to the north of Scotland....
s (all of which are spoken by roughly 1% or less of the population).

Religion

The 2001 census

Canada 2001 Census

The Canada 2001 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada population. Census day was May 15 2001. On that day, Statistics Canada attempted to count every person in Canada....
states that 21.7% of Winnipeggers do not follow a religion., while 72.9% of Winnipeggers belong to a Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
denomination, 35.1% of which are Protestant

Protestantism

Protestantism is a movement within Christianity that originated in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It is considered to be one of the three principal traditions of Christianity, together with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy....
, 32.6% are Roman Catholic

Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
, and 5.2% are other Christian denominations. 5.6% of the population follows a religion other than Christianity—followers of Judaism

Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
make up 2.1% of the population, followers of Buddhism

Buddhism

Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religionand is based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "The Buddha" , who was born in what is today Nepal....
and Sikhism

Sikhism

Sikhism , founded on the teachings of Guru Nanak and ten successive Sikh Gurus in fifteenth century Punjab region, is the Major religious groups organized religion in the world....
make up 0.9% of the population each, and Muslims

Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
make up 0.8% of the population. Hindus account for 0.6% of the population, while followers of other religions make up less than 0.5% of the population.

Education

Education is a responsibility of the provincial government in Canada.

In Manitoba, education is governed principally by The Public Schools Act and The Education Administration Act, as well as regulations made under both Acts. Rights and responsibilities of the Minister of Education, Citizenship and Youth and the rights and responsibilities of school boards, principals, teachers, parents and students are set out in the legislation.

There are two major universities, a community college

Community college

A community college is a type of educational institution. The term can have different meanings in different countries....
, a private Mennonite

Mennonite

The Mennonites are a group of Christianity Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons , though his writings articulated, and thereby, formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders....
university and a French

French Canadian

French Canadian refers to a nation or ethnic group of French people Kinship and Descent that originated in Canada, New France during the period of French colonization of the Americas beginning in the 17th century....
college in Saint Boniface

Saint Boniface, Manitoba

University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada, is the largest university located in the province of Manitoba. It is also Manitoba's most comprehensive and only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution.....
is the largest university in the province of Manitoba, the most comprehensive and the only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution. It was founded in 1877, making it Western Canada’s first university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
. In a typical year, the university has an enrollment of 24,542 undergraduate students and 3,021 graduate students.

The University of Winnipeg

University of Winnipeg

The University of Winnipeg is a public university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada that focuses primarily on undergraduate education. The U of W's founding colleges were Manitoba College and Wesley College, Winnipeg, which merged to form United College, Winnipeg in 1938....
received its charter in 1967 but its roots date back more than 130 years. The founding colleges were Manitoba College

Manitoba College

Manitoba College was a college that existed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada, Canada from 1871 to 1967, when it became one of the University of Winnipeg's founding colleges....
1871, and Wesley College

Wesley College, Winnipeg

Wesley College was a college that existed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada from 1888 to 1967. It was one of the University of Winnipeg founding colleges....
1888, which merged to form United College

United College, Winnipeg

United College was a college in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in 1938 with the merger of Manitoba College and Wesley College, Winnipeg ....
in 1938. Until 2007, it was an undergraduate

Undergraduate education

Undergraduate education is education taken prior to gaining a first degree, hence in many subjects in many educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a bachelor's degree, such as in the United States, where a university entry level is known as undergraduate, while students of higher degrees are...
institution with a faculty of arts and science that offered some joint graduate studies programs. It now offers graduate programs

Graduate school

A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees, such as Doctorate with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous Undergraduate education degree....
exclusive to the university. In 2008, the university plans on creating a new faculty of business consisting of economics and business programs hived off from the faculty of arts.

Winnipeg is also home to numerous private schools, both religious and secular.

School divisions

There are seven school division

School division

A school division is a geographic division over which a school board has jurisdiction....
s in Winnipeg:

Winnipeg School Division
Winnipeg School Division

The Winnipeg School Division is the largest of six public school divisions in Winnipeg, serving 77 schools and over 33,000 students and their families in their large student population and focuses on helping all students achieve success....
St. James-Assiniboia School Division
St. James-Assiniboia School Division

St. James-Assiniboia School Division is a school division in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Currently, there are 15 elementary schools, 6 middle schools, and 4 high schools....
Pembina Trails School Division
Pembina Trails School Division

Pembina Trails School Division is a school division in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.It operates one technical college in cooperation with the Louis Riel School Division called Winnipeg Technical College....
Seven Oaks School Division
Seven Oaks School Division

Seven Oaks School Division is a school division in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Currently, there are 16 elementary/junior high schools and 3 high schools....
Division Scolaire Franco-Manitobaine
Division Scolaire Franco-Manitobaine

The Franco-manitoban School Division is a school division in Manitoba, Canada offering French-language educations to its students....
River East Transcona School Division
River East Transcona School Division

River East Transcona School Division is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is the second largest school division in the province. It is composed of what used to be two separate divisions - Transcona-Springfield School Division and River East School Division - that merged in 2002....
Louis Riel School Division
Louis Riel School Division

The Louis Riel School Division is a school division in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada offering English-language, French immersion, and Fran?ais Partiel educations to its students....

Post-secondary Institutions

There are five post-secondary institutions in Winnipeg

University of Manitoba
University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada, is the largest university located in the province of Manitoba. It is also Manitoba's most comprehensive and only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution.....
University of Winnipeg
University of Winnipeg

The University of Winnipeg is a public university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada that focuses primarily on undergraduate education. The U of W's founding colleges were Manitoba College and Wesley College, Winnipeg, which merged to form United College, Winnipeg in 1938....
Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface
Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface

The Coll?ge Universitaire de Saint-Boniface, or CUSB, is a university college affiliated with the University of Manitoba and located in Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba....
Canadian Mennonite University
Canadian Mennonite University

Canadian Mennonite University is a Christian university located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada that awards three and four-year degrees in a variety of programs....
Red River College
Red River College

Red River College of Applied Arts, Science and Technology is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The College offers diploma, certificate, and apprenticeship programs in the applied arts, applied sciences, and various trades....

Economy

Winnipeg is an important economic base and regional centre, with an extremley diversified economy; covering financial

FINANCIAL

FINANCIAL is the weekly English language-language newspaper with offices in Tbilisi, Georgia and Kiev, Ukraine. Published by Intelligence Group LLC, FINANCIAL is focused on opinion leaders and top business decision-makers; It's about world?s largest companies, investing, careers, and small business....
, manufacturing

Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the use of machine, tool and labor to make things for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to Industry production, in which raw material are transformed into finished good on a large scale....
, transportation, food and beverage production, industry, culture, government, and retail and tourism. According to the Conference Board of Canada, Winnipeg had the third-fastest growing economy among Canada's major cities in 2007, with a real GDP growth at 3.7%.

Approximately 375,000 people are employed in Winnipeg and the surrounding area. Some of Winnipeg's largest employers are either government or government-funded institutions, including: McPhillips Street Station Casino

McPhillips Street Station Casino

McPhillips Street Station Casino is a casino located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is one of two casinos in the city The casino opened in 1993, after an assessment regarding the distribution of gambling revenue, was released....
, Club Regent Casino

Club Regent Casino

Club Regent Casino is a casino located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is one of two casinos in the city , both are owned and operated by the Manitoba Lotteries Corporation, and in turn, the Government of Manitoba ....
, the Province of Manitoba, the City of Winnipeg, the University of Manitoba, the Health Sciences Centre

Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg)

The Health Sciences Centre is the largest hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It serves the residents of Northwest Ontario and Nunavut as both a teaching hospital and as a research centre....
, and Manitoba Hydro

Manitoba Hydro

Founded in 1961, Manitoba Hydro is the electric power and natural gas public utility in the province of Manitoba. It is a provincial Crown Corporation, governed by the Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board and the Minister responsible for the Manitoba Hydro Act....
. Approximately 54,000 people (14% of the work force) are employed in the public sector. Large private sector employers include: Manitoba Telecom Services

Manitoba Telecom Services

Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. , or MTS , formerly Manitoba Telephone System, is the primary telecommunications carrier in the Canada province of Manitoba and the third largest telecommunications provider in Canada with 7000 employees....
, Canwest, Palliser Furniture

Palliser Furniture

Palliser Furniture is a family owned home furnishings manufacturer based in Canada. Palliser employs approximately 3,000 people in facilities in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Indonesia....
, Great-West Life Assurance, Motor Coach Industries

Motor Coach Industries

Motor Coach Industries International Inc. is a Schaumburg, Illinois-based bus manufacturing founded in 1932....
, Convergys Corporation, New Flyer Industries

New Flyer Industries

New Flyer Industries Inc. is a bus manufacturer in North America, headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada. It also has factories in Crookston, Minnesota and St....
, Boeing Canada Technology

Boeing Canada Technology

Boeing Canada Technology began in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1971 with 50 employees. The firm was enticed to open a facility in Winnipeg by the, then, Tory government's Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Lorne Dyke, who subsequently joined the firm, running the plant in the city....
, Bristol Aerospace

Bristol Aerospace

Bristol Aerospace is a Canada aerospace firm located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is now an operating division of Magellan Aerospace....
, Nygård International

Nygård International

Nyg?rd International, now a women's clothing designer and manufacturer, began in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as a sportswear manufacturer in 1965 by Peter J....
, Canad Inns

Canad Inns

Canad Inns is a chain of hotels headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba Canada. The company operates nine hotel properties in the province of Manitoba and one in the U.S....
and Investors Group

IGM Financial

Royal Canadian Mint

The Royal Canadian Mint produces all of Canada's circulation coins, and manufactures circulation coins on behalf of other nations. The mint also designs and manufactures: collector coins; gold, silver, palladium, and platinum bullion coins; customized medals, token s, trade dollar watches, and, for a brief time, high end jewellery featurin...
located in southeastern Winnipeg is where all circulating coinage in Canada is produced. The plant, established in 1975, also produces coins for many other countries in the world.

A number of large privately held family-owned companies operate out of Winnipeg. The most famous of these is James Richardson & Sons. The Richardson Building

Richardson Building

The Richardson Building is an office tower at the intersection of Portage and Main in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was built in 1969 by the Richardson family of Winnipeg and serves as the headquarters of James Richardson & Sons, Limited....
at Portage and Main was the first skyscraper to grace that corner. Other private companies include Ben Moss Jewellers

Ben Moss Jewellers

Ben Moss Jewellers is a national jewellery store chain based in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. It has stores in as 58 stores located in 38 cities in Canada....
, Frantic Films

Frantic Films

Frantic Films is a Canada award-winning visual effects, software and live action production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It employs over 100 people in Winnipeg, Vancouver, BC and Los Angeles....
and Paterson Grain

Paterson GlobalFoods

Paterson GlobalFoods is a family owned international agri-food business. It was established in 1908 as the N. M. Paterson Company.In 1912, N....
.

Winnipeg is home to several government research labs. The National Microbiology Laboratory

National Microbiology Laboratory

The National Microbiology Laboratory is located in the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This modern state-of-the-art facility houses the NML's Biosafety level#Level 4 containment laboratory, currently Canada's only BSL-4 laboratory....
is Canada's front line in its response to infectious diseases and one of only a handful of Biosafety level

Biosafety level

A biosafety level is the level of the biocontainment precautions required to isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed facility. The levels of containment range from the lowest biosafety level 1 to the highest at level 4....
4 microbiology laboratories in the world. The National Research Council also has the Institute for Biodiagnostics

Institute for Biodiagnostics

The National Research Council Institute for Biodiagnostics is a research laboratory located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was established in 1992 to develop noninvasive medical devices and techniques to increase prospects for prevention, earlier diagnosis, improved treatment and prognosis of diseases....
laboratory located in the downtown area.

In 2003 and 2004, Canadian Business

Canadian Business

Canadian Business is the longest-publishing business magazine in Canada. It was founded in 1928 as The Commerce of the Nation, the organ of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce....
magazine ranked Winnipeg in the top 10 cities for business. In 2006, Winnipeg was ranked by KPMG

KPMG

KPMG is one of the largest professional services firms in the world. KPMG employs over 136,500 people in a global network of professional services firms spanning over 140 countries....
as one of the lowest cost locations to do business in Canada. As with much of Western Canada, in 2007, Winnipeg experienced both a building and real estate boom. In May 2007, the Winnipeg Real Estate Board reported the best month in its 104-year history in terms of sales and volume.

Arts and Culture

(The Esplanade Riel), is home to the Winnipeg-based Salisbury House Restaurant

Salisbury House (restaurant)

Salisbury House is a restaurant chain based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is known locally as "Sals" and is considered a Winnipeg institution....
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Winnipeg is well known across the prairies for its arts and culture.

Since 1999, Winnipeg has achieved acclaim for being the "Slurpee

Slurpee

A Slurpee is a frozen carbonated beverage sold by 7-Eleven. In 1967, 7-Eleven licensed the product from the ICEE Company, and began selling it as the Slurpee....
Capital of the World".

The Winnipeg Public Library

Winnipeg Public Library

The Winnipeg Public Library is a public library service that is provided by the municipality of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....
is a public library

Public library

A public library is a library which is accessible by the public and is generally funded from public sources and may be operated by Civil services....
network with 20 branches throughout the city, including the Millennium Library

Millennium Library (Winnipeg)

The Millennium Library is the main branch of the Winnipeg Public Library located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was previously known as the Centennial Library ....
, located downtown

Downtown Winnipeg

Winnipeg Art Gallery

The Winnipeg Art Gallery is a public art gallery that was founded in 1912. It is Western Canada's oldest civic gallery and the 6th largest in the country....
is a public art gallery that was founded in 1912. It is Western Canada's oldest civic gallery and the 6th largest in the country. The collection includes the world's largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art

Inuit art

Inuit art refers to Work of art produced by Inuit, that is, the people of the Arctic previously known as Eskimos, a term that is now often considered offensive outside of Alaska....
. The Manitoba Museum

Manitoba Museum

The Manitoba Museum, previously the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature is the largest museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.The museum is the largest heritage center in Manitoba and focuses on human and natural heritage....
is the largest museum in the city. The full-size replica of the ship Nonsuch

Nonsuch (ship)

The Nonsuch was the ketch that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668-1669, in the first trading voyage for what was to become the Hudson's Bay Company two years later....
, whose voyage in 1668 led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and is one of the oldest in the world. The company was incorporated by British royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay; it is now domiciled in Canada and has adopted the mo...
, is the museum's showcase piece.

Winnipeg is well known for its murals. Many buildings in the downtown area and extending into some suburban areas have murals painted on the sides of buildings. Although some are advertisements for shops and other businesses, many are historical paintings, school art projects, or downtown beautification projects. Murals can also be found on several of the downtown traffic light switch posts and fire hydrants.

Winnipeg also has a thriving film

Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
community, beginning as early as 1897 with the films of James Freer

James Freer

James Freer was a Canada film-making pioneer.Born in Bristol, England Freer was a newspaper reporter who emigrated to Manitoba, Canada in 1888 and became a farmer, settling south of Brandon, Manitoba....
to the production of local independent films of today, such as those by Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin is a Canada screenwriter and film director of both film and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His most distinctive quality is his penchant for recreating the look and style of silent film or talkies films which has solidified his popularity and acclaim in alternative film circles....
. It has also supported a number of Hollywood

Cinema of the United States

United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, Classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period ....
productions, including Shall We Dance?

Shall We Dance? (2004 film)

Shall We Dance? is an Cinema of the United States film released in 2004 in film. It is a remake of the award-winning Masayuki Suo 1996 Japanese film, Shall We Dance? ....
(2004), the Oscar nominated film Capote
Capote (film)

Capote is a 2005 in film biographical film about Truman Capote on a writing assignment for The New Yorker. Philip Seymour Hoffman won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the title role....
(2005), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a 2007 Western drama film adapted from Ron Hansen 's 1983 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford of the same name....
(2006), The Horsemen
The Horsemen (2008 film)

The Horsemen is a 2009 in film thriller film directed by Jonas ?kerlund and starring Dennis Quaid and Zhang Ziyi. It was limited release on March 6, 2009....
(2008) and X2
X2 (film)

X2 is a 2003 superhero film based on the fictional characters the X-Men. Directed by Bryan Singer, it is the second film in the X-Men . It stars an ensemble cast including Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, Halle Berry and Ke...
(2003) had parts filmed in the province. Several locally-produced and national television dramas have also been shot in Winnipeg. The National Film Board of Canada

National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
and the Winnipeg Film Group

Winnipeg Film Group

The Winnipeg Film Group is an artist-run film education, production, distribution and exhibition centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, committed to enhancing the art of film....
have produced numerous award-winning films.

Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg
My Winnipeg

My Winnipeg is a feature film directed by Guy Maddin. Starring Ann Savage , the film is a surrealist-inflected pseudo-documentary about Winnipeg, Maddin's home town....
, an independent film released in 2008, is a poetic and comedic rumination on the city's history. It features archival footage and contemporary imagery blended seamlessly into an extended autobiographical goodbye letter.

There are several TV and film production companies in Winnipeg. Some of the prominent ones are Frantic Films

Frantic Films

Buffalo Gal Pictures

Buffalo Gal Pictures is an independent TV and film production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In 2004, it premiered the Isabella Rossellini film The Saddest Music in the World at the Sundance Film Festival....
, Les Productions Rivard

Les Productions Rivard

Les Productions Rivard is an independent film and television production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in 1995 by Louis Paquin and Charles Lavack....
and Eagle Vision

Eagle Vision (company)

Eagle Vision is a Canada independent film and television production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is an Aboriginally-owned production company founded in 1999 by Lisa Meeches, President of Meeches Video Productions Inc....
.

Winnipeg Bear, (also known as Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh Bear and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh , and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner ....
) was purchased in Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
, by Lieutenant Harry Colebourn

Harry Colebourn

Harry Colebourn was born in Birmingham, England and immigrated to Canada in 1905. He attended the Ontario Veterinary College, receiving his degree in Veterinary surgery, and moved west to Winnipeg, Manitoba....
of The Fort Garry Horse

The Fort Garry Horse

The Fort Garry Horse is a Canadian reservist armoured regiment based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is currently part of Land Force Western Area's 38 Canadian Brigade Group....
cavalry regiment en route to his embarkation point for the front lines of World War I. He named the bear after the regiment's home town of Winnipeg.

An Ernest H. Shepard

E. H. Shepard

Ernest Howard Shepard was an England artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his Anthropomorphism in illustrations for The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A....
painting of "Winnie the Pooh" is the only known oil painting of Winnipeg’s famous bear cub. It was purchased at an auction for $285,000 in London, England, in 2000. The painting is displayed in Assiniboine Park

Assiniboine Park

File:Grizzly Bear Winnipegzoo.jpgAssiniboine Park is a park in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was established in 1904 and is located north of the Assiniboine Forest....
.

Winnipeg is also associated with various music acts. Among the most notable are Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
, The Guess Who

The Guess Who

The Guess Who is a Canada rock music band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country while still residing there....
, Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Bachman-Turner Overdrive is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums just in that decade....
, Streetheart

Streetheart (band)

Streetheart was a Canada rock music band from Regina, Saskatchewan. In 1975, vocalist Ken Shields , keyboard player Daryl Gutheil and bassist Ken Sinnaeve formed the band Wascana....
, Harlequin

Harlequin (band)

Harlequin was a Canada rock music band that formed in Winnipeg in 1975 and lasted until the mid-1980s. In 2004, the band reformed as Harlequin II....
, Chantal Kreviazuk

Chantal Kreviazuk

Chantal Kreviazuk is a Canada singer-songwriter of the adult contemporary music genre. She is also a classically trained pianist, and can play the guitar....
, Bif Naked

Bif Naked

Bif Naked is a Juno Award-winning Canada Rock music singer-songwriter, poet, cartoonist, and actress....
, Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canada electronic musician Aaron Funk .From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures ....
, Comeback Kid

Comeback Kid

Comeback Kid is a Hardcore punk band from Winnipeg, Canada. Their name comes from a headline in a newspaper about hockey player, Mario Lemieux coming back to the NHL.and members ...
, The Waking Eyes

The Waking Eyes

The Waking Eyes is a rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba and Steinbach, Manitoba, Manitoba....
, Econoline Crush

Econoline Crush

Econoline Crush is a band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada formed in 1992. Originally formed in Seattle, they eventually moved back to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada....
, Brent Fitz

Brent Fitz

Brent Fitz is a Canadian-born musician and recording artist known best for his stints as the drummer for Union , Lamya, Vince Neil, Theory of a Deadman, Streetheart , Harlequin , Econoline Crush, Indigenous and Alice Cooper....
, Jet Set Satellite

Jet Set Satellite

Jet Set Satellite is a rock band founded in 1998 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and originally having only two members, Trevor Tuminski and Dave Swiecicki....
, the New Meanies

New Meanies

Origin of the BandThe New Meanies, originally called the Blue Meanies, are a 4 piece rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba who formed around 1990....
, Propagandhi

Propagandhi

Propagandhi is a Canadian Punk rock band formed in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in 1986 by Chris Hannah and Jord Samolesky. The band is currently located in Winnipeg, Manitoba....
, The Weakerthans

The Weakerthans

The Weakerthans are an award-winning four-piece Canada indie rock band that blends punk rock with folk rock....
, The Perpetrators

The Perpetrators

The Perpetrators are a rock and roll / blues band formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in the late 1990s. Currently without a permanent drummer, they are J "Howik" Nowicki and Ryan "ODL" Menard ....
, Crash Test Dummies

Crash Test Dummies

The Crash Test Dummies are a Canada folk-rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, popular in the early 1990s....
, Christine Fellows

Christine Fellows

Christine Fellows is a Canada folk rock-pop music singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba....
, The Wailin' Jennys

The Wailin' Jennys

The Wailin' Jennys are a Music of Canada folk trio from Winnipeg, Manitoba and New York, consisting of soprano Ruth Moody, mezzo Nicky Mehta, and alto Heather Masse....
and The Duhks

The Duhks

The Duhks is a band from Winnipeg, Canada.The five members play a blend of Canada soul, gospel, North American folk, Brazilian samba, old time country string band, zydeco, and Irish dance music....
.

Winnipeg is mentioned in the song "Anywhere Under the Moon" by Canadian folk duo Dala

Dala (band)

Dala is an Acoustic music-Folk music two-piece musical group, made up by Sheila Carabine and Amanda Walther, both of Scarborough, Ontario, Ontario....
, on their 2007 album Who Do You Think You Are

Who Do You Think You Are (album)

Who Do You Think You Are is the third album by Canadian band Dala . It was released on August 14, 2007. The band toured Canada promoting the album and opening for Matthew Good during the Nothing to Hide tour....
, as well as in Danny Michel

Danny Michel

Danny Michel is a singer-songwriter from Kitchener, Ontario....
's song "Into the Flame".

Winnipeg is the subject of the song "One Great City!" by The Weakerthans. The song makes allusion to the slow growth and lost industry in the town. The title of the song is the slogan on signs welcoming visitors to Winnipeg. The city is also mentioned in Neil Young's "Don't Be Denied". Aaron Funk, a Winnipeg-based Breakcore

Breakcore

Breakcore is an electronic music style that brings together elements of Industrial music, jungle music, hardcore techno and Intelligent dance music into a breakbeat-oriented sound that encourages speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density....
artist better known as Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares

Concept album

In popular music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical". Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being musical improvisation or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing to narrative....
in 2005 based on his hatred of Winnipeg

Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole

Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole is a 2005 breakcore album by Venetian Snares, released on Sublight Records.As implied by the album name and track titles, the album's theme is Aaron Funk's hatred for his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba....
.

Attractions

Winnipeg is home to many attractions, events, and festivals, year round. According to Guinness, Winnipeg claimed the title for the world's longest skating rink in the world, along the Red and Assiniboine rivers beating Ottawa's Rideau Canal

Rideau Canal

The Rideau Canal, also known as the Rideau Waterway, connects the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on the Ottawa River to the city of Kingston, Ontario on Lake Ontario....
.

The Forks (the location of a national historic site

National historic site

A national historic site is a designation that an area possesses national historical significance. It may confer protected area status on the site, but not necessarily....
), where the Red

Red River of the North

Assiniboine River

Manitoba Theatre for Young People

Manitoba Theatre for Young People is a theatre for children and young adults in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was originally founded in 1965 as Actors' Showcase and incorporated in 1977....
, Winnipeg International Children's Festival

Winnipeg International Children's Festival

The Winnipeg International Children's Festival is a children's festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in 1983 and was held at Assiniboine Park for many years before moving to The Forks, Winnipeg, Manitoba....
, the Manitoba Children's Museum

Manitoba Children's Museum

The Manitoba Children's Museum is a Children's museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The museum was founded in 1983. It opened its first exhibit in 1986 and expanded in 1988....
, a 30,000 square foot skate plaza, a bowl complex, and the Esplanade Riel

Esplanade Riel

The Esplanade Riel is a pedestrian bridge located in Winnipeg, Manitoba designed by Colin Douglas Stewart of Wardrop Engineering and ?tienne Gaboury, Architect and completed in 2003....
bridge.

Winnipeg is also the future home of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Canadian Museum for Human Rights

ReferencesThe Canadian Museum for Human Rights is a national museum that will be built in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, at the historic The Forks, Winnipeg, Manitoba....
. The start of construction is contingent on continued efforts to raise money in 2008. It will be the first Canadian national museum

National museum

A national museum is a museum maintained by a nation....
outside of the National Capital Region

National Capital Region (Canada)

The National Capital Region is an official federal designation for the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario, the neighbouring city of Gatineau, Quebec, and the surrounding area....
. The museum will be located at The Forks.

Museums

Aquatic Hall of Fame and Museum of Canada
Aquatic Hall of Fame and Museum of Canada

The Aquatic Hall of Fame and Museum of Canada was located in the Pan Am Pool in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It closed in 2006.The Museum was the oldest incorporated sports museum in Canada and had exhibits on swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo....
Dalnavert
Dalnavert

Dalnavert is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in the restored home of Sir Hugh John Macdonald, former Premier of Manitoba and son of Sir John A....
The Fire Fighters Museum
The Fire Fighters Museum

The Fire Fighters Museum is a museum devoted to firefighter heritage in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The museum has an extensive collection of vintage fire apparatus, artifacts, pictures and information about the history of fire fighting in the city of Winnipeg and its suburbs....
Fort Garry Historical Society
Fort Garry Historical Society

The Fort Garry Historical Society is a non-profit organization formed in 1971 to foster the preservation of heritage sites in St. Norbert, Manitoba and Fort Garry, Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....
"St Norbert Prov. Heritage Park"
Fort Garry Horse Museum & Archives Inc.
Fort Garry Horse Museum & Archives Inc.

The Fort Garry Horse Museum & Archives is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada that displays the history of the The Fort Garry Horse, a regiment of the Canadian Forces Army, from its origin to the present through use of artifacts, photographs and archival material....
Gallery 1C03
Gallery 1C03

Gallery 1C03 is a non-profit public gallery at the University of Winnipeg in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It opened in the 1986-87 academic year....
University of Winnipeg
Gallery One One One and FitzGerald Study Centre
Gallery One One One and FitzGerald Study Centre

Gallery One One One is part of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. It shows and collects contemporary and historical art. Gallery One One One was established in 1965 as a public museum with charitable tax status....
Hudson's Bay Company Archives
Hudson's Bay Company Archives

The Hudson's Bay Company Archives are located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The HBC archives are a division of the Archives of Manitoba that preserves the thousands of mainly hand written records and maps of the Hudson's Bay Company employees for hundreds of years....
Ivan Franko Museum
Ivan Franko Museum

The Ivan Franko Museum is a museum dedicated to Ukrainians author and poet Ivan Franko in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....
Jewish Heritage Centre
Jewish Heritage Centre

The Jewish Heritage Centre hosts the The Marion and Ed Vickar Jewish Museum of Western Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The museum opened in 1998 and displays the Jewish history of settlement in Western Canada....
La Maison Gabrielle Roy
La Maison Gabrielle Roy

La Maison Gabrielle Roy or The House of Gabrielle Roy is museum in the home of writer Gabrielle Roy. The house is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....
Le Musee de Saint-Boniface Museum
Le Musee de Saint-Boniface Museum

Le Musee de Saint-Boniface Museum is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada that is dedicated to Franco-Manitoban culture and history. It is located in the oldest building in Winnipeg, a former convent run by the Grey Sisters....
Living Prairie Museum
Living Prairie Museum

The Living Prairie Museum is a 12 hectare tall grass prairie preserve located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was discovered in 1968 when a local sub-committee of the International Biological Program surveyed Manitoba for native prairie plant communities....
Manitoba Children's Museum
Manitoba Children's Museum

The Manitoba Children's Museum is a Children's museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The museum was founded in 1983. It opened its first exhibit in 1986 and expanded in 1988....
Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library
Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library

The Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library is museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada dedicated to the preservation of handcrafts. It was part of The Crafts Guild of Manitoba until 1997....
Manitoba Electrical Museum
Manitoba Electrical Museum

is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada dedicated to the electrical history of Manitoba. It is a volunteer organization run by retired members of Manitoba Hydro....
Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum
Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum

The Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada dedicated to the history of sport in Manitoba and honouring the best in sport....
Naval Museum of Manitoba
Naval Museum of Manitoba

The Naval Museum of Manitoba is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada dedicated to the Royal Canadian Navy and its influence on Manitoba. The museum first opened in 1980 in the HMCS Chippewa building in Winnipeg....
Ogniwo Polish Museum Society
Ogniwo Polish Museum Society

The Ogniwo Polish Museum Society is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The museum is dedicated to the Poles experience in Winnipeg and the province of Manitoba....
Pavilion Gallery Museum
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Museum
Robert B. Ferguson Museum of Mineralogy
Robert B. Ferguson Museum of Mineralogy

The is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is located at the University of Manitoba in the Wallace Building. The museum got its start in 1918 by way of a donation from geologist Joseph Winthrop Spencer....
Ross House Museum
Ross House Museum

The Ross House Museum , is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. The Ross House Museum is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba Construction of the log house began in 1852 on the bank of the Red River at the foot of present day Market Avenue....
Royal Canadian Mint
Royal Canadian Mint

The Royal Canadian Mint produces all of Canada's circulation coins, and manufactures circulation coins on behalf of other nations. The mint also designs and manufactures: collector coins; gold, silver, palladium, and platinum bullion coins; customized medals, token s, trade dollar watches, and, for a brief time, high end jewellery featurin...
Seven Oaks House Museum
Seven Oaks House Museum

The Seven Oaks House Museum is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. The house where the museum reside is one of the oldest surviving residences in Manitoba and one of a handful of log buildings remaining in the province....
St. Vital Historical Society
St. Vital Historical Society

The St. Vital Historical Society is a Museum#Mobile museums in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Historical Society presents four themed exhibitions a year....
St. Volodymyr Museum
St. Volodymyr Museum

The St. Volodymyr Museum is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was started in Canada's centennial year by the Ukrainian Catholic Women's League of Canada....
The Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie
The Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie

The Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The museum is housed in the atrium area of the Wallace Building at the University of Manitoba....
The Historical Museum of St. James - Assiniboia
The Historical Museum of St. James - Assiniboia

The Historical Museum of St. James - Assiniboia is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The museum is a two storey Red River frame house built in 1856....
The Manitoba Museum
Manitoba Museum

The Manitoba Museum, previously the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature is the largest museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.The museum is the largest heritage center in Manitoba and focuses on human and natural heritage....
Transcona Historical Museum
Transcona Historical Museum

The Transcona Historical Museum is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The museum is housed in a 1925 bank building which later became the Transcona Municipal Office....
Ukrainian Cultural & Educational Centre
Ukrainian Cultural & Educational Centre

The Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre, also known as Oseredok is a museum, gallery and library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Oseredok was founded in 1944 by Ukrainian Canadians as a museum, archives, library and art gallery....
Western Canada Aviation Museum
Western Canada Aviation Museum

The Western Canada Aviation Museum is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is the second largest aviation museum in Canada. The collection is housed in an original Trans-Canada Air Lines hangar dating from the 1930s....
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg Art Gallery

The Winnipeg Art Gallery is a public art gallery that was founded in 1912. It is Western Canada's oldest civic gallery and the 6th largest in the country....
Winnipeg Police Museum
Winnipeg Railway Museum
Winnipeg Railway Museum

The Winnipeg Railway Museum is a non-profit organization operated by volunteers from the Midwestern Rail Association....

Theatre companies

Celebrations Dinner Theatre
Winnipeg Jewish Theatre
Winnipeg Jewish Theatre

Winnipeg Jewish Theatre is a theatre based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in 1987 and is the only professional theatre in Canada dedicated to Jewish themes....
(WJT)
Le Cercle Molière
Le Cercle Molière

Le Cercle Moli?re is the oldest theatre in Canada. It is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and was founded in 1925. In 2005, it began to raise funds to build a new venue in its historic home of St....
Manitoba Theatre Centre
Manitoba Theatre Centre

Manitoba Theatre Centre is Canada's oldest English-language regional theatre. Next to the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, MTC has a higher annual attendance than any other theatre in the country....
(MTC)
Manitoba Theatre for Young People
Manitoba Theatre for Young People

Manitoba Theatre for Young People is a theatre for children and young adults in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was originally founded in 1965 as Actors' Showcase and incorporated in 1977....
(MTYP)
Prairie Theatre Exchange
Prairie Theatre Exchange

The Prairie Theatre Exchange is a professional theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It has its origins with the Manitoba Theatre School started by the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 1960....
(PTE)
Rainbow Stage
Rainbow Stage

Rainbow Stage is Canada's longest-surviving outdoor theatre, located in the natural setting of Kildonan Park in north Winnipeg, Manitoba...
Shakespeare in the Ruins
Shakespeare in the Ruins

Shakespeare in the Ruins is a theatre company in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They perform their plays in a variety of settings, mostly outdoors....
(SIR)
Black Hole Theatre Company
Black Hole Theatre Company

The Black Hole Theatre Company is the theatre company of the Theatre Program of the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba....

Festivals

Brave New Words: The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards
Brave New Words: The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards

Brave New Words: The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards is a gala, held annually in April in Winnipeg, Manitoba, celebrating the best of Manitoban publishing....
Festival du Voyageur
Festival du Voyageur

The Festival du Voyageur is an annual 10-day winter festival which takes place in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada during February. "Voyageur" refers to those who worked for a fur trade company and usually travelled by canoe....
Folklorama
Folklorama

Folklorama is an event that runs for two weeks each August in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada. Folklorama is the largest and longest-running festival of its kind in the world ....
Jazz Winnipeg Festival
Jazz Winnipeg Festival

Winnipeg Jazz Festival is a jazz festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is generally held in the month of June. A variety of Canadian and major international artists attend and perform in several related jazz genres....
NSI Film Exchange Canadian Film Festival
NSI Film Exchange Canadian Film Festival

The NSI FilmExchange Canadian Film Festival was a film festival dedicated to showcasing and celebrating Canadian film achievement. Located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada it was hosted each winter....
Winnipeg Comedy Festival
Winnipeg Comedy Festival

The Winnipeg Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival, held in Winnipeg, Manitoba.Created by the Osborne Village Cultural Centre in collaboration with CBC Radio, performances from the festival are also broadcast as a radio series on CBC Radio One and as a television series on The Comedy Network....
Winnipeg Folk Festival
Winnipeg Folk Festival

The Winnipeg Folk Festival is a summer folk music festival held in Birds Hill Provincial Park, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada. It features a variety of folk artists from all around the world, as well as a number of local folk performers....
Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival

The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival is an annual Fringe theatre held in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is the second-largest North American festival of its kind, and since 2003, has been the longest at twelve days , and it is common for a small number of shows to be held over past the festival's official end date....
Winnipeg International Children's Festival
Winnipeg International Children's Festival

The Winnipeg International Children's Festival is a children's festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in 1983 and was held at Assiniboine Park for many years before moving to The Forks, Winnipeg, Manitoba....
Winnipeg Friendship Festival
Winnipeg Friendship Festival

The Winnipeg Friendship Festival is a family festival featuring cartoon characters as its main attraction. The festival is held in Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....
Winnipeg International Writers Festival
Winnipeg International Writers Festival

The Winnipeg International Writers Festival is a literary festival based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The annual festival program runs for a week each fall, and there are occasionally other events occurring throughout the year....
(THIN AIR)

Local media

Winnipeg has two daily newspapers, numerous ethnic weekly newspapers, six English television stations, one French television station, 24 AM and FM radio stations (2 of which are French) and a variety of regional and nationally based magazines that call the city home.

Cuisine

Winnipeg has a broad selection of restaurants and specialty food stores. Many ethnic cuisines are well represented, including those of the local Ukrainian, Jewish, Mennonite, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Greek, Thai, French, Vietnamese, and Filipino populations.

Regional dishes include Winnipeg goldeye

Goldeye

The goldeye, Hiodon alosoides, is a species of fish in the mooneye family . It occurs from as far down the Mackenzie River as Aklavik in the north to Mississippi in the south, and from Alberta in the west to Ohio south of the Great Lakes, with an isolated population south of James Bay....
, a kind of smoked fish, fresh pickerel

Walleye

Walleye or yellow pickerel or pickerel is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European Zander....
fillets and pickerel cheeks, and an East European

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a term that applies to the geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the Europe. Throughout history and to a lesser extent today, parts of Eastern Europe has been distinguishable from Western Europe and other regions due to cultural, religious, economic, and historical reasons, even though there i...
style of light rye bread

Rye bread

Rye bread is a type of bread made with various percentages of flour from rye grain. It can be light or dark in color, depending on the type of flour used and the addition of coloring agents, and is typically denser than bread made from wheat flour....
called Winnipeg rye. Also associated with Winnipeg are nips (hamburgers) from Salisbury House restaurant

Salisbury House (restaurant)

Salisbury House is a restaurant chain based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is known locally as "Sals" and is considered a Winnipeg institution....
, Perogies, Jeanne's cake, Russian mints from Morden's Chocolate, Old Dutch

Old Dutch Foods

Old Dutch Foods is a manufacturer of potato chips and other Snack food in the Midwestern United States and Canada. Their product line includes brands such as Old Dutch Potato Chips, Dutch Crunch, Ripples and Restaurante Style Tortilla Chips....
potato chips, and beer from Half Pints and Fort Garry

Fort Garry Brewing Company

The Fort Garry Brewing Company Ltd brews beer in Winnipeg, Canada. The company was bought by the Hoeschen family in 1930, and operated by them until it was sold to Molson in 1960....
breweries.

Sports

Winnipeg has a long and storied sports history. It has been home to several professional hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
, football

Canadian football

Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played chiefly in Canada in which two teams of twelve players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide , attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area ....
, baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
franchises, and dirt track

Dirt track racing

----Dirt track racing is a type of auto racing performed on Oval racing. It began in the United States before World War I and became widespread during the 1920s and 30s....
stock car racing

Stock car racing

Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain and Brazil. Traditionally, races are run on oval track racing measuring approximately ? mile to 2.66 miles length, but are also raced on road courses....
; including the Winnipeg Jets

Winnipeg Jets

The Winnipeg Jets were a professional hockey team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba. They played in both the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League from 1972 to 1996....
, a National Hockey League

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
team which was lost during the 1995-96 season to Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital and largest city in the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the fifth most populous city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,552,259 residents, and is the anchor of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area with 4,179,427 residents....
after a large and emotional campaign to "Save the Jets". There have also been many university and amateur athletes over the years that have left their mark. Winnipeg also has plans to replace Canad Inns Stadium. Winnipeg is the only Canadian city to ever host the Pan American Games

Pan American Games

The Pan American Games are a multi-sport event, held every four years between competitors from all nations in America. The last edition was held in 2007 Pan American Games, Brazil and the next will be in 2011 Pan American Games, Mexico....
, and the second city in the world to host the event twice, once in 1967

1967 Pan American Games

The 5th Pan American Games were held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, from July 23 to August 6, 1967.Winnipeg was chosen as host of the Pan American Games on its second try....
and once in 1999

1999 Pan American Games

The 13th Pan American Games were held in Winnipeg, Canada, from 23 July to 8 August, 1999 for the second time, after the 1967 Pan American Games of the multi-sports event....
.

The MTS Centre

MTS Centre

The MTS Centre is an indoor arena at 300 Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada, at the former Eaton%27s#The_Winnipeg_store site....
, located downtown, is now the world's 19th busiest arena (its highest ranking ever), 11th among facilities in North America, and remains in the 3rd spot in Canada.

Professional sports teams

Club

League

Venue

Established

Championships

Winnipeg Goldeyes

The Winnipeg Goldeyes are a professional baseball team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. The Goldeyes are a member of the Northern League , which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball....

Northern League

Northern League (baseball)

The Northern League, based in Chicago, is an Independent league baseball baseball league which operates in the Northern United States and the Canada province of Manitoba, unaffiliated with either Major League Baseball or the Minor League Baseball....

Canwest Park

1994

AHL

American Hockey League

The American Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league in North America that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League ....

MTS Centre

The MTS Centre is an indoor arena at 300 Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada, at the former Eaton%27s#The_Winnipeg_store site....

1996

Winnipeg Blue Bombers

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a Canadian Football League team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Blue Bombers have won the league's Grey Cup championship ten times, most recently in 1990 Grey Cup....

CFL

Canadian Football League

The Canadian Football League is a professional sports league located entirely in Canada.Its eight teams, which are located in eight cities, are divided into two division of four teams each ....

Canad Inns Stadium

Canad Inns Stadium is a Canadian football stadium located north of Polo Park Shopping Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The stadium, named for hotel chain Canad Inns, and originally completed in 1953, seats 29,533 for football....

1930

Amateur and junior clubs

Club

League

Venue

Established

Championships

Winnipeg Saints

The Winnipeg Saints are a Manitoba Junior Hockey League team playing out of the Dakota Community Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.The Winnipeg Saints won 3 Turnbull Cup Championships as Manitoba Junior ?A? Champions, 1971, 1981, & 1994, and the Anavet Cup in 1971....

MJHL

Manitoba Junior Hockey League

The Manitoba Junior Hockey League is a Junior 'A' ice hockey league operating in the Canada province of Manitoba. The MJHL is one of ten Junior 'A' Hockey Leagues in Canada and is a member of the Canadian Junior Hockey League ....

Dakota Community Centre

1956

Winnipeg South Blues

The Winnipeg South Blues are a Manitoba Junior Hockey League team playing out of the Century Arena in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Formerly the Fort Garry Blues....

MJHL

Manitoba Junior Hockey League

Century Arena

1930

Winnipeg Rifles

Winnipeg Rifles are a Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They began playing in the Canadian Junior Football League in 2002. They play at Canad Inns Stadium, home of the Canadian Football League's Winnipeg Blue Bombers....

CJFL

Canadian Junior Football League

The Canadian Junior Football League is a national amateur Canadian football league consisting of 20 teams playing in six provinces across Canada....

Canad Inns Stadium

2002

Winnipeg Alliance FC

Winnipeg Alliance FC are a professional soccer team that played in the Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League....

CMISL

Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League

The Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League or CMISL is a professional indoor soccer league that began full league play in January 2008. The league's president is Mel Kowalchuk....

MTS Centre

The MTS Centre is an indoor arena at 300 Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada, at the former Eaton%27s#The_Winnipeg_store site....

2007

Current University Clubs

Club

League

Venue

Established

Championships

Manitoba Bisons Mens Hockey

Manitoba Bisons

File:ManitobaBisonsFootball.PNGThe Manitoba Bisons are the athletic teams that represent the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....

CIS

Canadian Interuniversity Sport

Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of university sport in Canada, comprising the majority of degree granting universities in the country....

Max Bell Centre

1919

Mantioba Bisons Womens Hockey

Manitoba Bisons

File:ManitobaBisonsFootball.PNGThe Manitoba Bisons are the athletic teams that represent the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....

CIS

Canadian Interuniversity Sport

Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of university sport in Canada, comprising the majority of degree granting universities in the country....

Max Bell Centre

2000

Manitoba Bisons Football

Manitoba Bisons

File:ManitobaBisonsFootball.PNGThe Manitoba Bisons are the athletic teams that represent the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....

CIS

Canadian Interuniversity Sport

Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of university sport in Canada, comprising the majority of degree granting universities in the country....

University Stadium

University Stadium, Winnipeg

University Stadium, located on the campus grounds of the University of Manitoba in south Winnipeg, Manitoba, features a 400m 8-lane track, as well as separate areas for long jump/triple jump, high jump, pole vault, Discus throw, Hammer throw, shot put, and Javelin throw....

1922

Manitoba Bisons Mens Basketball

Manitoba Bisons

File:ManitobaBisonsFootball.PNGThe Manitoba Bisons are the athletic teams that represent the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....

CIS

Canadian Interuniversity Sport

Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of university sport in Canada, comprising the majority of degree granting universities in the country....

Max Bell Centre

1967

Law and government

Winnipeg's current mayor is Sam Katz

Sam Katz

Samuel Michael Katz, Order of Manitoba, Bachelor of Arts is the 42nd mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba; Canada. He is also an entrepreneur and a member of the Order of Manitoba....
and its former mayor was Glen Murray

In 1869–70, Winnipeg was the site of the Red River Rebellion

Red River Rebellion

Métis people (Canada)

Louis Riel

Louis David Riel was a Politics of Canada, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the M?tis people people of the Canadian prairies....
, and the newcomers from eastern Canada. This rebellion led to Manitoba's entry into Confederation as Canada's fifth province

Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the List of countries and outlying territories by total area. The major difference between a Canada province and a territory is that a province receives its power and authority directly from the Monarchy in Canada, via the Constitution Act, 1867, whereas territories derive their manda...
in 1870, and on November 8, 1873, Winnipeg was incorporated as a city.

Municipal politics

Since 1992, the city of Winnipeg is represented by 15 city councillors and a mayor elected every four years. The present mayor, Sam Katz

Sam Katz

Samuel Michael Katz, Order of Manitoba, Bachelor of Arts is the 42nd mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba; Canada. He is also an entrepreneur and a member of the Order of Manitoba....
, was elected to office in 2004 and re-elected in 2006. Katz is Winnipeg's first Jew

Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish mayor.

The city is a single-tier municipality, governed by a mayor-council system. The structure of the municipal government is set out by the province of Manitoba in the City of Winnipeg Act. The mayor is elected by direct popular vote to serve as the chief executive

Head of government

The head of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet . In a parliamentary system, the head of government is often styled Prime Minister, President of the Government, Premier, etc....
of the city. At Council meetings, the mayor has one of 16 votes. The City Council is a unicameral

Unicameralism

Unicameralism is the practice of having only one legislative or parliamentary chamber. Many countries with unicameral legislatures are often small and homogeneous unitary states and consider an upper house or second chamber unnecessary....
legislative body, representing geographical wards throughout the city.

Provincial politics

Winnipeg is represented by 31 provincial Members of the Legislative Assembly

Member of the Legislative Assembly

A Member of the Legislative Assembly, or MLA, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to the legislature or legislative assembly of a subnational jurisdiction....
(MLAs)—25 of whom are members of the New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party of Manitoba

The New Democratic Party of Manitoba is a social democracy political party in Manitoba, Canada. It is the provincial wing of the federal New Democratic Party, and is a successor to the Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation....
, four are members of the Progressive Conservative Party

Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba is a right-of-centre political party in Manitoba, Canada. It is currently the official opposition party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba....
, and two are members of the Liberal Party

Manitoba Liberal Party

The Manitoba Liberal Party is a political party in Manitoba, Canada. Its roots can be traced to the late nineteenth-century, following the province's creation in 1870....
. In the provincial election

Manitoba general election, 2007

The Manitoba general election held on May 22 2007 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba of the Province of Manitoba, Canada....
in 2007, the NDP won two ridings from the Conservatives, rising from 23 to its present 25 seats in the city. All three leaders of the provincial parties represent Winnipeg in the legislature. Most Premiers of Manitoba are residents of Winnipeg.

Federal politics

Winnipeg is represented by eight Members of Parliament

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Canadian monarchy and the Senate of Canada. The House of Commons is a democracy elected body, consisting of 40th Canadian Parliament known as Members of Parliament ....
: four Conservatives

Conservative Party of Canada

The Conservative Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Tories, is a major political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada....
, three New Democrats

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party is a political party in Canada with a progressivism social democracy philosophy that contests elections at both the federal and provincial levels....
, and one Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is a major political party in Canada. The party is positioned in the centre-left of the Politics of Canada....
. There are six Senators representing Manitoba in Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the Capital of Canada. The city has population of 812,000, the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population municipality in the country and second largest in Ontario....
. Only two list Winnipeg as the division they represent, although all of them were residents of Winnipeg when appointed to the Senate. The political affiliation in the Senate is three Liberals, two Conservatives, and one Independent.

Crime

In 2004, Winnipeg had the fourth-highest overall crime rate among Canadian Census Metropolitan Area cities listed, with 12,167 Criminal Code of Canada

Criminal Code of Canada

The Criminal Code of Canada is the codification of most of the criminal offences and procedure in Canada. Section 91 of the Canadian constitution establishes criminal law as under the sole jurisdiction of the federal Parliament....
offences per 100,000 population; only Regina

Regina, Saskatchewan

Saskatoon

Saskatoon is a city located in central Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River, with a metropolitan area population of 233,923. Saskatoon is the most populous city in the province of Saskatchewan, and has been since the mid-1980s when it surpassed the provincial capital of Regina, Saskatchewan....
, and Abbotsford

Abbotsford, British Columbia

Abbotsford is a Canada/cities in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, adjacent to Metro Vancouver. It is the 5th largest municipality in British Columbia and the 37th largest in Canada, home to 123,864 people ....
had higher crime rates. Winnipeg had the highest rate among centres with populations greater than 500,000. The crime rate was 50% higher than that of Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and High Plains, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies....
, and more than double the rate for Toronto

Toronto

Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada is the Canada federal government department commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture....
shows that in 2005, Manitoba had the highest decline of overall crime in Canada, at nearly 8%. Winnipeg dropped from having the highest rate of murder per capita in the country; that distinction went to Edmonton

Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital of the Canada Provinces and territories of Canada of Alberta. The city is located on the North Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farmland on the prairies....
but ultimately returned to Winnipeg as of 2007. However, given the relatively small number of annual murders, even a small increase or decrease in the absolute numbers can translate into a large increase or decrease in the percentage rate. Manitoba did continue to lead all other provinces in auto thefts, almost all of it centred in Winnipeg.

To combat auto theft, Manitoba Public Insurance

Manitoba Public Insurance

Manitoba Public Insurance is a non-profit organization Crown corporation based in Manitoba that has provided basic public auto insurance since 1971....
(MPI) established financial incentives for motor vehicle owners to install ignition immobiliser

Immobiliser

An immobiliser or immobilizer is an electronics device fitted to an automobile which prevents the engine from running unless the correct key is present....
s in their vehicles, and now requires owners of high-risk vehicles to install them.

Winnipeg is protected by the Winnipeg Police Service

Winnipeg Police Service

The Winnipeg Police Service is the police force of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....
, which has over 1350 members.

Infrastructure

Transportation

Winnipeg has had public transit since 1882, starting with horse-drawn streetcars

Horsecar

A horsecar was an animal-powered streetcar or tram.These early forms of transit developed out of industrial haulage routes or from the the bus that first ran on public streets in the 1820s, using the newly-invented iron or steel rail or 'Tramway '....
. They were replaced by electric trolley cars

Tram

A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railroad car, of lighter weight and construction than a train, designed for the transport of passengers within, close to, or between villages, towns and/or cities, on tracks running primarily on streets....
which ran from 1891 to 1955, supplemented by motor bus

Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
es since 1918, and electric trolleybus

Trolleybus

A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from a network of charged overhead wires using spring loaded trolley poles. Two poles are needed, so that one can draw down the live current to power the motor and the other can complete the circuit by carrying the neutral current back to the network....
es from 1938 to 1970. Winnipeg Transit

Winnipeg Transit

Winnipeg Transit is the public transit agency in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is a bus-only operator.The Winnipeg Street Railway operated a horse car operation from 1882 to 1894....
now operates entirely with diesel buses. For decades, the city has explored the idea of a rapid transit

Rapid transit

A rapid transit, subway, underground, elevated railway or metro system is an railway electrification system public transport rail transport in an urban area with high capacity and frequency, and which is grade separation from other traffic....
link, either bus or rail, from downtown to the University of Manitoba

University of Manitoba

Rail transport

Rail transport is the conveyance of passengers and goods by means of wheeled vehicles running along railways . Rail transport is part of the logistics chain, which facilitates international trade and economic growth....
hub and is served by VIA Rail

VIA Rail

Via Rail Canada is an independent Crown corporation offering intercity passenger rail transport services in Canada.Via Rail Canada operates 480 trains in eight Canada Provinces of Canada over a network of of track spanning the country from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay....
, Canadian National Railway

Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway is a Canada Class I railroad operated by the Canadian National Railway Company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec....
(CN), Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway , known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canada Class I railroad operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited....
(CP), Burlington Northern Santa Fe Manitoba

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Manitoba

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Manitoba is a Canada subsidiary rail transport of BNSF Railway....
, and the Central Manitoba Railway

Central Manitoba Railway

The Central Manitoba Railway is a Canada shortline railway operating in the province of Manitoba.CEMR was created in 1999 by Cando Contracting Ltd to purchase the former CN Pine Falls and Carman subdivisions....
(CEMR). It is the only city between Vancouver

Vancouver

Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay may refer to several things in North America's Great Lakes region....
with direct U.S. connections.

The city is directly connected to the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
via Provincial Trunk Highway 75 (PTH 75) (a northern continuation of I-29

Interstate 29

Interstate 29 is an Interstate Highway in the Midwestern United States. I-29 runs from Kansas City, Missouri, at a junction with Interstate 35 and Interstate 70 to the Canadian border near Pembina, North Dakota, where it connects with Manitoba Highway 75 via the short Manitoba Highway 29....
and US 75

U.S. Route 75

U.S. Route 75 is a north-south United States Numbered Highways. The highway's northern terminus is in Kittson County, Minnesota, at the Canada border, where it continues as Manitoba Highway 75....
). The highway runs to Emerson, Manitoba

Emerson, Manitoba

Emerson is a town in south central Manitoba, Canada, with a population 655. The town is named after writer Ralph Waldo Emerson.Emerson is located on the east bank of the Red River of the North, just north of the border with the United States at the point where Manitoba, Minnesota, and North Dakota meet....
, and is the busiest Canada – United States border crossing between Vancouver and the Great Lakes. Much of the commercial traffic that crosses through Emerson, either originates from or is destined for Winnipeg. Inside the city, the highway is locally known as Pembina Highway (Route 42

Winnipeg Route 42

Route 42 is a major arterial road located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It connects the suburbs of North Kildonan, Winnipeg, East Kildonan, Winnipeg, Fort Rouge, Winnipeg, Fort Garry, Winnipeg, and St....
).

Winnipeg Bus Terminal

Winnipeg Bus Terminal

The Winnipeg Bus Terminal is located in Downtown Winnipeg Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada across from the University of Winnipeg. It operates 24 hours a day and is attached to a hotel and office complex....
, located in downtown Winnipeg

Downtown Winnipeg

Downtown Winnipeg is centred around Portage and Main, and is bounded by the Assiniboine River on the south, Colony and Balmoral Streets on the west, Notre Dame Avenue, Princess Street, and Logan Avenue on the north, and the Red River of the North on the east....
, offers domestic and international service by Greyhound Canada, Jefferson Lines

Jefferson Lines

Jefferson Lines and Jefferson Tours are operated by Jefferson Partners L.P., a Minneapolis, Minnesota based family company with roots extending to the early days of motorcoach travel....
, Grey Goose Bus Lines

Grey Goose Bus Lines

Grey Goose Bus Lines is a subsidiary of Greyhound Canada operating in the Canada Provinces and territories of Canada of Manitoba.History...
, Beaver Bus Lines, and Brandon Air Shuttle. This terminal will move to a new location near the airport next year.

Winnipeg's airport

International airport

An international airport is an airport typically equipped with customs and immigration facilities to handle international flights to and from other countries....
, renamed Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport in December 2006, is currently under redevelopment. A new terminal building is scheduled for completion by 2009, along with an office tower and a second hotel. The field was Canada's first international airport when it opened in 1928 as Stevenson Aerodrome. The airport is the 7th busiest in Canada in terms of passenger traffic and, along with Winnipeg/St. Andrews Airport

Winnipeg/St. Andrews Airport

Winnipeg/St. Andrews Airport, , is a general aviation facility located north northeast of St. Andrews, Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada. In 2008 it was List of the busiest airports in Canada by aircraft movements....
, is among the top 20 in terms of aircraft movements.

A four-lane highway, called the Perimeter Highway

Perimeter Highway (Winnipeg)

File:TCH1 Winnipeg city-Perimeter sign.JPGProvincial Trunk Highways 100 and 101 is a beltway around Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Perimeter is approximately 90 km long....
, built in 1969, serves as a by-pass

Beltway

A beltway, loop , ring road, or orbital motorway is a Circumferential Highway found around or within many cities.Beltway, orbital motorway, perimeter loop, beltline, and similar terms refer to an expressway/motorway/freeway style standard road that often originally enclosed the built up area and was later...
, with at-grade intersections, and a few interchange

Interchange (road)

In the field of road transport, an interchange is a road Junction that typically utilizes grade separation, and one or more ramps, to permit traffic on at least one road to pass through the junction without crossing any other traffic stream....
s. It allows travellers on the Trans-Canada Highway

Trans-Canada Highway

The Trans-Canada Highway is a federal-provincial highway system that joins all ten Provinces of Canada of Canada. It is, after the Trans-Siberian Highway and Australia's Highway 1 , the world's longest national highway, with the main route spanning 7,821 km....
to completely avoid the city. Some studies on the highway have given it the name "Disaster By Design". Some of the city's major arterial roads include Route 155 (McGillivray Blvd), Route 165 (Bishop Grandin Blvd.), Route 17 (Chief Peguis Trail), and Route 90 (Brookside Blvd., Oak Point Hwy., King Edward St., Century St., Kenaston Blvd.)

Winnipeg Route 90

Route 90 is a city route in Winnipeg, Manitoba, connecting the Perimeter Highway at Manitoba Provincial Highway 7 and Winnipeg Route 165.Route 90 is a north-south city route....
.

The city is also the starting point on the Yellowhead highway

Yellowhead Highway

The Yellowhead Highway is a major east-west highway connecting the four western Canada provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba....
; as well the Trans-Canada Highway

Trans-Canada Highway

Perimeter Highway (Winnipeg)

File:TCH1 Winnipeg city-Perimeter sign.JPGProvincial Trunk Highways 100 and 101 is a beltway around Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Perimeter is approximately 90 km long....
(beltway).

Winnipeg has also embarked on an ambitious wayfinding

Wayfinding

Wayfinding encompasses all of the ways in which people and animals orient themselves in physical space and navigation from place to place.Wayfinding is often used to refer to traditional navigation methods used by indigenous peoples....
program, erecting new signage at strategic downtown locations; the intention is to make it easier for travellers, specifically tourists, to locate services and attractions.

Medical centres and hospitals

Winnipeg's major hospitals include Health Sciences Centre

Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg)

Concordia Hospital

Concordia Hospital is a regional hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada that was founded by Russians Mennonites in 1928. It had a number of locations before settling in northeastern Winnipeg in 1965....
, Deer Lodge Centre

Deer Lodge Centre

Deer Lodge Centre is a hospital specializing in treatment of Veterans in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The hospital began as a convalescent hospital for returning World War I soldiers in 1916 and was located in Silver Heights along west Portage Avenue....
, Grace Hospital

Grace Hospital (Winnipeg)

Grace Hospital is a regional hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Until 2008, it was a hospital run by the Salvation Army. The hospital, founded in 1890 was the first Salvation Army hospital in Canada....
, Misericordia Health Centre

Misericordia Health Centre

Misercordia Health Centre is a hospital that was founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada by the Misercordia Sisters in 1898. Today, ownership of the hospital is the responsibility of the Misericordia Corporation within the Archdiocese of Winnipeg....
, Riverview Health Centre

Riverview Health Centre

Riverview Health Center is a community hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in 1911 by the City of Winnipeg as the Winnipeg Municipal Hospital....
, Saint Boniface General Hospital, , Victoria General Hospital

Victoria General Hospital (Winnipeg)

Victoria General Hospital is a general hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada founded in 1911. Originally it was located in the Osborne Village, but since 1971 it has been in its present location in south Winnipeg beside the University of Manitoba....
, and The Children's Hospital of Winnipeg

The Children's Hospital of Winnipeg

The Children's Hospital of Winnipeg is a children's hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is located on the campus of the Health Sciences Centre near downtown Winnipeg and is the only hospital between Toronto and Calgary that is expressly devoted to the health care of children....
.

The National Microbiology Laboratory

National Microbiology Laboratory

Biosafety level

Institute for Biodiagnostics

Military

Canadian Forces Base Winnipeg

CFB Winnipeg

Canadian Forces Base Winnipeg is a Canadian Forces Base located in Winnipeg, Manitoba.Co-located at the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, CFB Winnipeg is home to many flight operations support divisions, as well as several training schools....
, co-located at the airport, is home to many flight operations support divisions, as well as several training schools. It is also the headquarters of 1 Canadian Air Division

1 Canadian Air Division

1 Canadian Air Division is the operational-level command and control formation of the Canadian Forces' Canadian Forces Air Command .Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1 Cdn Air Div is also the headquarters for the Canadian NORAD Region and commands all 13 wings of AIRCOM and oversees the monitoring of Canada's airspace in support of the nation'...
and the Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command

North American Aerospace Defense Command

North American Aerospace Defense Command is a joint organization of Canada and the United States, that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty and defense for the two aformentioned countries....
(NORAD) Region Headquarters. The base is supported by over 3,000 military personnel and civilian employees.

17 Wing of the Canadian Forces

Canadian Forces

The Canadian Forces , officially the Canadian Armed Forces , are the unified armed forces of Canada, as constituted by the National Defence Act, which states: "The Canadian Forces are the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Canada and consist of one Service called the Canadian Armed Forces." This singular institution consists of thre...
is based at CFB Winnipeg. The Wing comprises three squadrons and six schools. It also provides support to the Central Flying School. Excluding the three levels of government, 17 Wing is the fourth largest employer in the city. The Wing supports 113 units stretching from Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay may refer to several things in North America's Great Lakes region....
, to the Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 588,276.09 square kilometres and a population of 1,015,895 , mostly living in the southern half of the province....
/Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....
border and from the 49th parallel

49th parallel north

The 49th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 49 degree true north of the Earth equator.The parallel forms part of the United States-Canadian Border from British Columbia to Manitoba on the Canada side and from Washington to Minnesota on the United States side, or from the Strait of Georgia to the Lake of the Woods....
to the high Arctic

Arctic

The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
. 17 Wing also acts as a deployed operating base for CF-18 Hornet

CF-18 Hornet

The McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet is a Canadian Forces aircraft, based on the American F/A-18 Hornet....
fighter-bombers assigned to the Canadian NORAD Region.

Two squadrons based in the city are:

402 "City of Winnipeg" Squadron
No. 402 Squadron RCAF

402 "City of Winnipeg" Squadron is a Canadian Forces squadron based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada...
. This squadron flies the Canadian-designed and -produced de Havilland CT-142 Dash 8
De Havilland Canada Dash 8

The Bombardier Dash 8 is a series of twin-engined, medium range, turboprop airliners. Introduced by de Havilland Canada in 1984, they are now produced by Bombardier Aerospace....
navigation trainer.
435 "Chinthe" Transport and Rescue Squadron. This squadron flies the Lockheed CC-130 Hercules
C-130 Hercules

The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft built by Lockheed. It is the main tactical airlifter for many military forces worldwide....
tanker/transport in the airlift search and rescue
Search and rescue

Search and rescue is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger....
roles. In addition, 435 Squadron is the only Canadian Forces Air Command
Canadian Forces Air Command

Canadian Forces Air Command , also known as the Canadian Air Force, is the air force element of the Canadian Forces. AIRCOM is the descendant of the Royal Canadian Air Force , which was Canada's air force from its foundation in 1924 until February 1, 1968....
squadron equipped and trained to conduct air-to-air refueling
Aerial refueling

Aerial refueling, also called air refueling, in-flight refueling , air-to-air refueling or tanking, is the process of transferring fuel from one aircraft to another during flight....
of fighter aircraft
Fighter aircraft

A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets by dropping bombs....
.

Winnipeg is home to a number of reserve units:

The Royal Winnipeg Rifles
The Royal Winnipeg Rifles

The Royal Winnipeg Rifles are a Primary Reserve one-battalion infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces. Nicknamed the "Little Black Devils", they are based at Minto Armouries in Winnipeg, Manitoba....
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada is a Canadian Forces Primary Reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces....
infantry (along with the The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Museum)
735 Communications Regiment
17 Service Battalion
17 (Winnipeg) Field Ambulance at Minto Armoury
The Fort Garry Horse
The Fort Garry Horse

The Fort Garry Horse is a Canadian reservist armoured regiment based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is currently part of Land Force Western Area's 38 Canadian Brigade Group....
armoured reconnaissance regiment at McGregor Armoury
HMCS Chippewa, original home to the Naval Museum of Manitoba
Naval Museum of Manitoba

The Naval Museum of Manitoba is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada dedicated to the Royal Canadian Navy and its influence on Manitoba. The museum first opened in 1980 in the HMCS Chippewa building in Winnipeg....

For many years, Winnipeg was the home of The Second Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry is an infantry regiment in the Canadian Forces , belonging to 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group ....
, or 2 PPCLI. Initially, the battalion was based at the Fort Osborne Barracks near present day Osborne Village

Osborne Village

Osborne Village derived its names from the Fort Osborne Barracks of the The Second Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry....
. They eventually moved to the Kapyong Barracks located in the River Heights/Tuxedo part of Winnipeg. Since 2004, the 550 men and women of the battalion have operated out of CFB Shilo

CFB Shilo

Canadian Forces Base Shilo is an Operations and Training base of the Canadian Forces, located 35 km east of Brandon, Manitoba. During the 1990s, Canadian Forces Base Shilo was also designated as an Area Support Unit, which acts as a local base of operations for south-west Manitoba in times of Military and Civil Emergency....
near Brandon

Brandon, Manitoba

Brandon is a city in southwestern Manitoba, Canada.The surrounding area is often referred to as "Westman Region, Manitoba".The city started as a major junction on the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Assiniboine River and was then incorporated in 1882....
.

Sister cities

The city of Winnipeg maintains trade development programs, cultural and educational partnerships in twinning or sister city

Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
agreements with these cities:

1970: Setagaya
Setagaya, Tokyo

is one of the Special wards of Tokyo of Tokyo, Japan. It is also the name of a neighborhood within the ward. The ward calls itself the City of Setagaya in English....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
1971: Reykjavík
Reykjavík

is the Capital and largest city of Iceland. Its latitude at 64?08' N makes it the world's most northern national capital city. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxafl?i Bay....
, Iceland
Iceland

Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
1973: Minneapolis, USA and Lviv
Lviv

Lviv is a major city in western Ukraine.It is regarded as one of the main Ukrainian culture. In 2001, it had 725,000 inhabitants, of whom 88 per cent were Ukrainians, 9 per cent Russians and 1 per cent Poles....
, Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
1979: Manila
Manila

The 'City of Manila' , or simply 'Manila', is the Capital of the Philippines and one of the 17 cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila....
, Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
1982: Taichung
Taichung

Taichung is a city located in west-central Taiwan with a population of just over one million people, making it the third largest city on the island, after Taipei and Kaohsiung....
, Taiwan ROC
Republic of China

The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
and Kuopio
Kuopio

Kuopio is a Finland city and municipality located in the province of Eastern Finland and the region of Northern Savonia. A population of makes it the ninth biggest city in the country....
, Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
1984: Beersheba
Beersheba

Beersheba is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the seventh-largest city in Israel with a population of 186,100....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
1988: Chengdu
Chengdu

Chengdu , located in southwest People's Republic of China, is the capital of Sichuan provinces of China and a sub-provincial city. Chengdu is also one of the most important economic centers and transportation and communication hubs in Southwestern China....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
1992: Jinju
Jinju

Jinju is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It was the location of the Siege of Jinju and Siege of Jinju Sieges of Jinju by Japanese forces during the Imjin War....
, South Korea
South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....
1999: San Nicolás de los Garza
San Nicolás de los Garza

San Nicol?s de los Garza, sometimes known only as San Nicol?s, is a city and coextensive municipalities of Mexico in the Mexican state of Nuevo Le?n that is part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area....
, Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....

External links

- Official Winnipeg website
at Environment Canada
- Local Winnipeg History
- from Living in Canada
- 250 stories about Winnipeg and Manitoba History

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