37 Facts About Winnipeg Manitoba

In 1967, Winnipeg Manitoba was the first Canadian host of the Pan American Games.

The Winnipeg Manitoba Act of 1870 made Winnipeg Manitoba the fifth province of the three-year-old Canadian Confederation.

On 8 November 1873, Winnipeg Manitoba was incorporated as a city, with the Selkirk settlement as its nucleus.

Winnipeg Manitoba developed rapidly after the coming of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1881.

Winnipeg Manitoba Legislative Building, constructed mainly of Tyndall stone, opened in 1920; its dome supports a bronze statue finished in gold leaf, titled "Eternal Youth and the Spirit of Enterprise" .

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In 1942, the Victory Loan Campaign staged a mock Nazi invasion of Winnipeg Manitoba to promote awareness of the stakes of the war in Europe.

In 1960, the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg Manitoba was established to co-ordinate service delivery in the metropolitan region.

In 2003, the City of Winnipeg Manitoba Act was repealed and replaced with the City of Winnipeg Manitoba Charter.

Winnipeg Manitoba experienced a severe economic downturn in advance of the early 1980s recession, during which the city incurred closures of prominent businesses, including the Winnipeg Manitoba Tribune, as well as the Swift's and Canada Packers meat packing plants.

Winnipeg Manitoba is bordered by tallgrass prairie to the west and south and the aspen parkland to the northeast, although most of the native prairie grasses have been removed for agriculture and urbanization.

Winnipeg Manitoba has North America's largest extant mature urban elm forest.

Winnipeg Manitoba has four major rivers: the Red, Assiniboine, La Salle and Seine.

In 2006, Winnipeg Manitoba ranked seventh of the Canadian cities for percentage of residents of a visible minority.

In 2012, Winnipeg Manitoba was ranked by KPMG as the least expensive location to do business in western Canada.

Winnipeg Manitoba was named the Cultural Capital of Canada in 2010 by Canadian Heritage.

The Winnipeg Manitoba Public Library is a public library network with 20 branches throughout the city, including the main Millennium Library.

Winnipeg Manitoba the Bear, which would become the inspiration for part of the name of Winnie-the-Pooh, was purchased in Ontario by Lieutenant Harry Colebourn of the Fort Garry Horse.

Winnipeg Manitoba named the bear after the regiment's home town of Winnipeg.

The Royal Winnipeg Manitoba is Canada's oldest English-language regional theatre, with over 250 performances yearly.

Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg Manitoba, an independent film released in 2008, is a comedic rumination on the city's history.

Winnipeg Manitoba has a significant place in Canadian jazz history, being the location of Canada's first jazz concert in 1914 at the Pantages Playhouse Theatre.

Royal Winnipeg Manitoba Ballet is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America.

The Winnipeg Manitoba Children's Museum is a nonprofit children's museum at The Forks that features twelve permanent galleries.

University of Manitoba Bisons and the University of Winnipeg Wesmen represent the city in university-level sports.

Winnipeg Manitoba has been home to several professional baseball teams, most recently the Winnipeg Manitoba Goldeyes since 1994.

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Winnipeg Manitoba was the first Canadian city to host the Pan American Games, and the second city to host the event twice, in 1967 and again in 1999.

Radio broadcasting in Winnipeg Manitoba began in 1922; by 1923, government-owned CKY held a monopoly position that lasted until after the Second World War.

Since 1992, the city of Winnipeg Manitoba has been represented by 15 city councillors and a mayor, both elected every four years.

The structure of the municipal government is set by the provincial legislature in the City of Winnipeg Manitoba Charter Act, which replaced the old City of Winnipeg Manitoba Act in 2003.

In provincial politics, Winnipeg is represented by 32 of the 57 provincial Members of the Legislative Assembly in the 42nd Manitoba Legislature.

In federal politics, as of 2019 Winnipeg Manitoba is represented by eight Members of Parliament: four Liberals, two Conservatives and two New Democrat.

From 2007 to 2011, Winnipeg Manitoba was the "murder capital" of Canada, with the highest per-capita rate of homicides; as of 2019 it is in second place, behind Thunder Bay.

Winnipeg Manitoba was the "violent crime capital" of Canada in 2020 according to the Statistics Canada police-reported violent crime severity index.

Winnipeg Manitoba has two independent colleges: Red River College Polytechnic and Booth University College.

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

Canadian Forces Base Winnipeg Manitoba, co-located at the airport, is home to many flight operations support divisions and several training schools.

Many years, Winnipeg Manitoba was the home of the Second Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.