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Winnipeg became the capital and grew rapidly to become a major city in Canada. The current premier of Manitoba is Gary Doer of the New Democratic Party, who is currently serving his third mandate with a majority government of 36 seats. The Progressive Conservative Party holds 19 seats, and the Liberal Party (which still does not have official party status) has 2. The last election was May 22, 2007. | Winnipeg became the capital and grew rapidly to become a major city in Canada. The current premier of Manitoba is Gary Doer of the New Democratic Party, who is currently serving his third mandate with a majority government of 36 seats. The Progressive Conservative Party holds 19 seats, and the Liberal Party (which still does not have official party status) has 2. The last election was May 22, 2007. | ||
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English and French are official languages of the legislature and courts of Manitoba, according to the Manitoba Act, 1870 (which forms part of the Canadian constitution): | English and French are official languages of the legislature and courts of Manitoba, according to the Manitoba Act, 1870 (which forms part of the Canadian constitution): | ||
− | + | However, with the rise to power of the English-only movement in Manitoba from 1890 onward, this provision was disregarded in practice and by Manitoban legislation. In April 1890, the Manitoba legislature introduced a measure to abolish the official status of French in the legislature, the laws, records and journals, as well as the courts of Manitoba. Among other things, the legislature ceased to publish legislation in French. However, in 1985 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that publishing legislation only in English was invalid. | |
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− | + | Although French is required to be an official language for the purposes of the legislature, legislation, and the courts, the Manitoba Act (as interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada) does not require it to be an official language for the purpose of the executive branch of government (except when the executive branch is performing legislative or judicial functions.) Hence, Manitoba's government is not completely bilingual; the only bilingual province is [[New Brunswick]]. | |
− | + | The Manitoba French-language Services Policy of 1999 is intended to provide a comparable level of provincial government services in both official languages. Services to the public, including public utilities and health services, official documents such as parking tickets and court summonses, court and commission hearings, and government web sites are accessible in both English and French. | |
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==Demographics== | ==Demographics== |
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Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Latin: Glorious and free) | |||||
Template:Canada provinces map | |||||
Capital | Winnipeg | ||||
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Largest city | Winnipeg | ||||
Official languages | English | ||||
Government | |||||
- Lieutenant-Governor | John Harvard | ||||
- Premier | Gary Doer (NDP) | ||||
Federal representation | in Canadian Parliament | ||||
- House seats | 14 | ||||
- Senate seats | 6 | ||||
Confederation | July 15, 1870 (5th) | ||||
Area | Ranked 8th | ||||
- Total | 647,797 km² (250,116 sq mi) | ||||
- Land | 553,556 km² (213,729 sq mi) | ||||
- Water (%) | 94,241 km² (36,387 sq mi) (14.5%) | ||||
Population | Ranked 5th | ||||
- Total (2006) | 1,177,765 | ||||
- Density | 1.82/km² (4.7/sq mi) | ||||
GDP | Ranked 6th | ||||
- Total (2005) | $41.933 billion | ||||
- Per capita | $35,609 (10th) | ||||
Abbreviations | |||||
- Postal | MB | ||||
- ISO 3166-2 | CA-MB | ||||
Time zone | UTC-6 | ||||
Postal code prefix | R | ||||
Flower | Prairie Crocus | ||||
Tree | White Spruce | ||||
Bird | Great Grey Owl | ||||
Web site | www.gov.mb.ca | ||||
Rankings include all provinces and territories |
Manitoba is one of Canada's 10 provinces. It was officially recognized by the Federal Government in 1870 as separate from the Northwest Territories, and became the first province created from the Territories. It is the easternmost of the three Prairie provinces.
Its capital and largest city (containing over one half the provincial population (around 700,000)) is Winnipeg. Other cities with more than 10,000 people are Brandon, Thompson, Portage la Prairie, and Steinbach. A person from Manitoba is called a Manitoban.
There are a few possible sources for the name "Manitoba." Possibly it comes from Cree or Ojibwe and means "strait of the Manitou (spirit)." It may also be from the Assiniboine for "Lake of the Prairie."
Geography
Manitoba is located in the longitudinal center of Canada, although it is considered part of Western Canada. It borders Saskatchewan to the west, Ontario to the east, Nunavut and the Hudson Bay to the north, and the American states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south.
The province has a coast along Hudson Bay, and contains the tenth-largest fresh water lake in the world, Lake Winnipeg, along with other very large lakes: Lake Manitoba and Lake Winnipegosis. Manitoba's lakes cover approximately 14.5 percent, or 94,241 km², of its surface area. Lake Winnipeg is the largest lake within the borders of southern Canada and one of the last remote lake areas with intact watersheds left in the world. Large rivers that flow into the east side of Lake Winnipeg's basin are very pristine, with no major developments along them. Many pristine islands can be found along the eastern shore of this grand lake. There are thousands of lakes across the province.
Important watercourses include the Red, Assiniboine, Nelson, Winnipeg, Hayes, Whiteshell, and Churchill Rivers. Most rivers in Manitoba eventually flow north and empty into Hudson's Bay.
Most of Manitoba's inhabited south, near or in Winnipeg, lies within the prehistoric bed of Glacial Lake Agassiz. This south-central part of the province is flat with few hills. However, there are many hilly and rocky areas in the province, along with many large sand ridges left behind by glaciers. Baldy Mountain is the highest point at 2,727 feet (832 m) above sea level, and the Hudson Bay coast is the lowest at sea level. Other upland areas include Riding Mountain, the Pembina Hills, Sandilands Provincial Forest, and the Canadian Shield regions.
Much of the province's sparsely inhabited north and east lie within the irregular granite landscape of the Canadian Shield, including Whiteshell Provincial Park, Atikaki Provincial Park, and Nopiming Provincial Park. Birds Hill Provincial Park was originally an island in Lake Agassiz after the melting of glaciers.
Only the southern parts of the province support extensive agriculture. The most common farm found in rural areas is: cattle farming (35.3 percent) followed by oilseed (25.8 percent) and wheat farming (9.8 percent). Around 11 percent of the farmland in Canada is in Manitoba.
The eastern, southeastern, and northern reaches of the province range through coniferous forests, muskeg, Canadian Shield, and up to tundra in the far north. Forests make up about 263,000 square kilometers of the province's 548,000-square-kilometer land base. The forests generally consist of pines (jackpine, red pine), spruces (white, black), larch, poplars (trembling aspen, balsam poplar), birch trees (white, swamp), and small pockets of Eastern White Cedar. The great expanses of intact forested areas are considered by many naturalists and sportsmen as pristine wilderness areas. Some of the last largest and intact boreal forest of the world can be found along the east side of Lake Winnipeg, with only winter roads, no hydro development, and few largely populated communities. There are many clean and untouched east side rivers that originate in the Canadian Shield and flow west into Lake Winnipeg.
Climate
Due to its location in the center of the North American continent, Manitoba has a very extreme climate. In general, temperatures and precipitation decrease from south to north and precipitation also increases from west to east. As Manitoba is far removed from the moderating influences of both mountain ranges and large bodies of water (all of Manitoba's very large lakes freeze during the winter months), and because of the generally flat landscape in many areas, it is exposed to numerous weather systems throughout the year, including prolonged cold spells in the winter months when Arctic high pressure air masses settle over the province. There are three main climate regions.
The extreme southwestern corner has a semi-arid mid-latitude steppe climate. This region is somewhat drier than other parts of southern Manitoba and very drought-prone. It is very cold and windy in the winter and also the region most prone to blizzards due to the openness of the landscape. Summers are generally warm to hot, with low to moderate humidity.
The remainder of southern Manitoba, including Winnipeg, falls in the humid continental climate zone. Temperatures here are very similar to the semi-arid climate zone, but this region is the most humid area in the Prairie Provinces with moderate precipitation.
The central and northern parts of the province-the majority of Manitoba's land area-falls in the subarctic climate zone. This region features long and extremely cold winters and brief, mild summers, with relatively little precipitation.
This has resulted in the capital of the province being nicknamed "Winterpeg." It is common to have overnight lows below -40°F (-40°C) several days each winter across the province (quite frequent in the north), and to have a few weeks that remain below 0°F (-18°C). In the summer months the climate is often influenced by low pressure air masses originating in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in hot and humid conditions and frequent thunderstorms with a few tornadoes each year, along with temperatures exceeding 90°F (32°C) several times each summer. Manitoba is one of the sunniest places in Canada and North America.
History
The geographical area now named Manitoba was originally inhabited as soon as the last ice age glaciers retreated in the southwest. The first exposed land was the Turtle Mountain area, where large numbers of petroforms and medicine wheels can be found. The first humans in southern Manitoba left behind pottery shards, spear and arrow heads, copper, petroforms, pictographs, fish and animal bones, and signs of agriculture along the Red River near Lockport. Eventually there were the aboriginal settlements of Ojibwa, Cree, Dene, Sioux, Mandan, and Assiniboine peoples, along with other tribes that entered the area to trade. There were many land trails made as a part of a larger native trading network on both land and water.
The Whiteshell Provincial Park region along the Winnipeg River has many old petroforms and may have been a trading center or even a place of learning and sharing of knowledge for over 2,000 years. The cowry shells and copper are proof of what was traded as part of a large trading network to the oceans and to the larger southern native civilizations along the Mississippi River and in the south and southwest. In northern Manitoba there are areas that were mined for quartz to make arrow heads.
European exploration
Henry Hudson was one of the first Europeans to sail into what is now known as Hudson Bay. He is presumed to have died in 1611 in Hudson Bay after he was set adrift with his son and seven others by his crewmen, following a mutiny. The first European to reach present-day central and southern Manitoba was Sir Thomas Button, who traveled upstream along the Nelson River and Lake Winnipeg in 1612. The expedition he commanded unsuccessfully attempted to locate Hudson and navigate the Northwest Passage. He is credited with exploring and securing the west coast of Hudson Bay for England.
The Nonsuch ship that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668-1669 was the first trading voyage and led to the formation of the Hudson's Bay Company. The company was given the fur trading rights to the entire Hudson's Bay watershed, which covers land in what is now known as Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Minnesota, North Dakota, and more. This watershed was named Rupert's Land, after Prince Rupert who helped to form the Hudson's Bay Company.
Other traders and explorers eventually came to Hudson's Bay shores and went south along many northern Manitoba rivers. Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de la Vérendrye, visited the Red River Valley in the 1730s as part of opening the area for French exploration and exploitation. Many other French and Metis explorers came from the east and the south by going down the Winnipeg and Red Rivers. A French-Canadian population still lives in Manitoba, especially in eastern Winnipeg. Fur trading forts were built by both the NorthWest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company along the many rivers and lakes, and there was often fierce competition with each other in more southern areas.
The territory was won by Great Britain in 1763 as part of the French and Indian War, and became part of Rupert's Land, the immense trading monopoly territory of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Settlement and conflict
The founding of the first agricultural community and settlements in 1812 by Lord Selkirk, north of the area which is now downtown Winnipeg, resulted in conflict between the British colonists and the Métis who lived and traded near there. Twenty colonists, including the governor, were killed by the Métis in the Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816 in which the settlers fired the first shots. One Metis man was killed. Many fur trading forts were attacked by each side over the years.
When Rupert's Land was ceded to Canada in 1869 and incorporated into the Northwest Territories, a lack of attention to Métis concerns led their elected leader Louis Riel to establish a provisional government as part of the Red River Rebellion. Negotiations between the provisional government and the Canadian government resulted in the creation of the Province of Manitoba and its entry into Confederation in 1870. However, Riel was pursued because of the rebellion and fled into exile. The Métis were blocked by the Canadian government in their attempts to obtain land promised to them as part of Manitoba's entry into confederation. Facing racism from the new flood of white settlers from Ontario, they moved in large numbers to what would become Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Originally, the province of Manitoba was only 1/18th of its current size and square in shape - it was known as the "postage stamp province." It grew progressively, absorbing land from the Northwest Territories until it attained its current size by reaching 60°N in 1912.
Treaties were signed in the late 1800s with the chiefs of various First Nations that lived in the area now known as Manitoba. These treaties made quite specific promises of land for every family, medicine chests, yearly payments, etc. This led to a reserve system under the jurisdiction of the federal government. Presently, there are still land claim issues because the proper amount of land that was promised to the native peoples was not given in all cases.
The Manitoba Schools Question showed the deep divergence of cultural values in the territory. The French had been guaranteed a state-supported separate school system in the original constitution of Manitoba, but a grassroots political movement among Protestants in 1888-1890 demanded the end of French schools. In 1890 the Manitoba legislature passed a law abolishing French as an official language of the province and removing funding for Catholic schools. The French Catholic minority asked the federal government for support; however the Orange Order and other anti-Catholic forces mobilized nationwide. The Conservatives proposed remedial legislation to override Manitoba's legislation but they in turn were blocked by Liberals, led by Wilfrid Laurier, who opposed the remedial legislation on the basis of provincial rights. Once elected prime minister in 1896, Laurier proposed a compromise stating that Catholics in Manitoba could have a Catholic education for 30 minutes at the end of the day if there were enough students to warrant it, on a school-by-school basis. Tensions over language remained high in Manitoba (and nationwide) for decades to come.
Boom and labor strife
Winnipeg was the fourth largest city in Canada by the early 1900s. A boom town, it grew quickly from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. There were a lot of outside investors, immigrants, and railways. Business was booming. Even today, one can see the many old mansions and estates that belonged to Winnipeg's ever-growing wealthy class. When the Manitoba Legislature was built, it was expected that Manitoba would have a population of three million quite soon. Around the time of World War I, the city's growth began to cool as investment lagged. Winnipeg eventually fell behind in growth when other major cities in Canada began to boom, such as Calgary.
In the 1917 election, in the midst of a conscription crisis, the Liberals were split in half and the new Union party carried all but one seat. As the war ended, severe discontent among farmers (over wheat prices) and union members (over wage rates) resulted in an upsurge of radicalism. With Bolshevism coming to power in Russia, conservatives were anxious and radicals were energized. The most dramatic episode was the Winnipeg general strike of 1919, which shut down most activity for six weeks.
In the aftermath eight leaders went on trial, and most were convicted on charges of seditious conspiracy, illegal combinations, and seditious libel; four were aliens who were deported under the Immigration Act. Labor was weakened and divided as a result.
Farmers, meanwhile, were patiently organizing the United Farmers of Manitoba, with plans to contest the 1920 provincial elections. The result was that no party held a majority. The Farmers, running against politics as usual, won in 1922.
Government
The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba was established on July 14, 1870. At that time, Manitoba attained full-fledged rights and responsibilities of self-government as the first Canadian province carved out of the Northwest Territories, control over which had been passed by Britain to the Government of Canada in 1869. For its first few decades, Manitoba was known as "postage stamp province" because it was originally square, initially including only the southern 40 percent of the province's current territory. (The northern part lay in Rupert's Land, whose area was eventually divided among the provinces that bounded it.)
The creation of Manitoba out of the Northwest Territories was unusually quick. Saskatchewan and Alberta went through a long period of apprenticeship as part of the Northwest Territories until their creation as provinces in 1905.
The decision to make Manitoba a full-fledged province in 1870 resulted from three influences:
- A misunderstanding on the part of the Canadian authorities.
- The rise of nationalism of the Metis.
- Fears of manifest destiny sentiments in the United States, ignoring Americans' denials of any such goals.
Louis Riel first introduced the subject of provincial status to the Committee of Forty appointed by the citizens of Red River in 1870. Riel's proposal to Donald Smith, emissary for the government of Canada, was rejected by the government of John A. Macdonald.
The list of demands from Riel did goad the government of Canada to act on a proposal of its own regarding Red River's status. Macdonald introduced the Manitoba Act in the Canadian House of Commons and pretended that the question of province or territory was of no significance. The bill was given royal assent and Manitoba joined Canada as a province.
Winnipeg became the capital and grew rapidly to become a major city in Canada. The current premier of Manitoba is Gary Doer of the New Democratic Party, who is currently serving his third mandate with a majority government of 36 seats. The Progressive Conservative Party holds 19 seats, and the Liberal Party (which still does not have official party status) has 2. The last election was May 22, 2007.
Languages
English and French are official languages of the legislature and courts of Manitoba, according to the Manitoba Act, 1870 (which forms part of the Canadian constitution):
However, with the rise to power of the English-only movement in Manitoba from 1890 onward, this provision was disregarded in practice and by Manitoban legislation. In April 1890, the Manitoba legislature introduced a measure to abolish the official status of French in the legislature, the laws, records and journals, as well as the courts of Manitoba. Among other things, the legislature ceased to publish legislation in French. However, in 1985 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that publishing legislation only in English was invalid.
Although French is required to be an official language for the purposes of the legislature, legislation, and the courts, the Manitoba Act (as interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada) does not require it to be an official language for the purpose of the executive branch of government (except when the executive branch is performing legislative or judicial functions.) Hence, Manitoba's government is not completely bilingual; the only bilingual province is New Brunswick.
The Manitoba French-language Services Policy of 1999 is intended to provide a comparable level of provincial government services in both official languages. Services to the public, including public utilities and health services, official documents such as parking tickets and court summonses, court and commission hearings, and government web sites are accessible in both English and French.
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Demographics
According to the 2001 Canadian census,[1] the largest ethnic group in Manitoba is English (22.1%), followed by German (18.2%), Scottish (17.7%), Ukrainian (14.3%), Irish (13.0%), French (12.6%), First Nations (9.9%), Polish (6.7%), Métis (5.2%), and Dutch (4.7%) - although almost a quarter of all respondents also identified their ethnicity as "Canadian."
Economy
Pre-Confederation
Manitoba's early economy was one that depended on mobility and living off of the land. A number of Aboriginal Nations that included the Cree, Ojibwa, Dene, Sioux and Assiniboine followed herds of bison and congregated to trade among themselves at key meeting places throughout the province.
The first fur traders entering the province in the 17th century changed the dynamics of the economy of Manitoba forever. For the first time, permanent settlements of forts were created and communities evolved over time. Most of the trade centred around the fur-trade pF beaver pelts and many other animals. Many native scouts and native maps were used to help the fur traders make their way through the region. Some of the best first maps were made with the help of natives who knew all about the river routes within their traditional home territories. The natural rivers, creeks, and lakes were the most important routes for trade and travel.
The first major diversification of the economy came when Lord Selkirk brought the first agricultural settlers to an area just north of present day Winnipeg in 1811. The lack of reliable transportation and an ongoing dispute between the Hudson Bay Company, the North West Company and the Métis impeded growth.
The eventual triumph of the Hudson Bay Company over its competitors ensured the primacy of the fur trade over widespread agricultural colonization. Any trade not sanctioned by the HBC was frowned upon.
It took many years for the Red River Colony to develop under HBC rule. The Company invested little in infrastructure for the community. It was only when independent traders such as James Sinclair and Andrew McDermot (Dermott) started competing in trade that improvements to the community started to happen.
By 1849, the HBC faced even greater threats to its monopoly. A Métis fur trader named Pierre Guillaume Sayer was charged with illegal trade by the Hudson Bay Company. Sayer had been trading with Norman Kittson who resided just beyond the HBC's reach in Pembina, North Dakota. The court found Sayer guilty but the judge levied no fine or punishment.
In 1853, a second agricultural community started in Portage la Prairie.
The courts could no longer be used by the HBC to enforce its monopoly. The result was a weakening of HBC rule over the region and laid the foundations of provincehood for Manitoba.
Transportation
Transportation and warehousing contributes approximately $2.2 billion to Manitoba’s GDP. Total employment in the industry is estimated at 34,500.[1]
Manitoba has a rail, air, road and marine component to its transportation industry.
The Trans-Canada Highway built between 1950 and 1971 crosses the province from east to west. Trucks haul 95% of all land freight in Manitoba and trucking companies account for 80% of Manitoba's merchandise trade to the United States. Five of Canada's twenty-five largest employers in for-hire trucking are headquartered in Manitoba and three of Canada's 10 largest employers in the for-hire trucking industry are headquartered in Winnipeg. $1.18 billion of Manitoba's GDP directly or indirectly comes from trucking. Around 5% or 33,000 people work in the trucking industry.
Manitoba has two Class I railways. They are CN and Canadian Pacific Railway. Winnipeg is centrally located on the main lines of both of these continental carriers and both companies maintain large intermodal terminals in the city. CN and CP operate a combined 2,439 kilometres of track within Manitoba. The first railway through Manitoba was the CP Railway, and the tracks were diverted south to make Winnipeg as the capital and centre, and not Selkirk, which is located further north.
A number of small regional and shortlines railways exist in the province. They are the Hudson Bay Railway, the Southern Manitoba Railway, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Manitoba, Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway, and Central Manitoba Railway. Together, they operate approximately 1,775 kilometres of track within the province.
Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport is one of only a few 24 hour, unrestricted airports in Canada, and is part of the National Airports System. It has a broad range of air passenger and cargo services and served over 3 million in 2003. The airport handles approximately 140,000 tonnes of cargo annually. A new airport terminal building is being built and scheduled to be completed by 2009.
Eleven regional passenger carriers and nine smaller/charter carriers out of the airport, as well as 11 air cargo carriers and 7 freight forwarders. Winnipeg is a major sorting facility for both FedEx and Purolator. It also receives daily transborder service from UPS. Air Canada Cargo and Cargojet Airways use the airport as a major hub for national traffic.
The Port of Churchill, owned by OmniTRAX is Manitoba's window to the Arctic and to the sea. The port of Churchill is nautically closer to ports in Europe than many other ports in Canada. It has 4 deep-sea berths for the loading and unloading of grain, general cargo and tanker vessels. The port is linked by the Hudson Bay Railway (also owned by OmniTrax). Grain represented 90% of the Port’s traffic in the 2004 shipping season. In that year over 600,000 tonnes of agricultural product was shipped through the port.
Notes
- ↑ Manitoba Government - Employment
ReferencesISBN links support NWE through referral fees
- Carr, Ian and Robert E. Beamish. Manitoba Medicine: A Brief History (ISBN 0-88755-660-4) (1999)
- Clark, Lovell. ed The Manitoba School Question: majority rule or minority rights? (1968) historians debate the issue
- Chafe, J. W. Extraordinary Tales from Manitoba History (1973)
- Cook, Ramsay. The Politics of John W. Dafoe and the Free Press (1963)
- Dafoe, John W. Clifford Sifton in Relation to His Times (1931)
- Donnelly, M. S. The Government of Manitoba (1963)
- Ellis, J.H. The Ministry of Agriculture in Manitoba, 1870-1970 (1971)
- Ewanchuk, Michael. Pioneer Profiles: Ukrainian Settlers in Manitoba (1981) (ISBN 0-9690768-4-3)
- Raymond M. Hébert. Manitoba's French-Language Crisis: A Cautionary Tale McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-7735-2790-7.
- Kinnear, Mary, ed. 1st Days, Fighting Days: Women in Manitoba History (1987)
- Friesen, Gerald, and Potyondi, Barry. A Guide to the Study of Manitoba Local History (1981)
- Morton, William Lewis. Manitoba: A History (1970) (ISBN 0-8020-6070-6), the standard scholarly history
- Petryshyn, Jaroslav . Peasants in the Promised Land: Canada and the Ukrainians, 1891-1914 (1985)
- Whitcomb, Ed. A Short History of Manitoba (1982) (ISBN 0-920002-15-3)
- Yuzyk, Paul. The Ukrainians in Manitoba: A Social History (1953)
External links
- Manitoba Spirited Energy/Vibrant d'énergie
- Government of Manitoba
- Travel Manitoba
- Manitoba Fishing Information
- The Manitoba School Question
- The Manitoba Historical Society
- Architecture of Manitoba
- The TimeLinks Image Archive
- Review of book about Manitoba's French-Language crisis in the 1980s
- Friendly Rivalries: Manitoba Elections, 1966 -1999
- Community Profile: Manitoba, Canada; Statistics Canada
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