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The name Manitoba possibly derives from either Cree manitou-wapow or Ojibwe manidoobaa, both meaning ' straits of Manitou, the Great Spirit '. [8] Alternatively, it may be from the Assiniboine minnetoba, meaning ' Lake of the Prairie ' [9] [10] (the lake was known to French explorers as Lac des Prairies).
Manitoba: Cree, Ojibwe. or Assiniboine: manitou-wapow, manidoobaa, or minnetoba "Straits of Manitou, the Great Spirit" or "Lake of the Prairie", after Lake Manitoba [6] [7] New Brunswick: German (ultimately from Low German) Brunswiek: Combination of Bruno and wik, referring to a place where merchants rested and stored their goods [8 ...
Provinces and territories whose official names are aboriginal in origin are Yukon, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nunavut.. Manitoba: Either derived from the Cree word manito-wapâw meaning "the strait of the spirit or manitobau" or the Assiniboine words mini and tobow meaning "Lake of the Prairie", referring to Lake Manitoba.
Petroforms at Whiteshell Provincial Park.The site is hypothesized to be a First Nations gathering place or trading centre.. The geographical area of modern-day Manitoba was inhabited by the First Nations people shortly after the last ice age glaciers retreated in the south-west approximately 10,000 years ago; the first exposed land was the Turtle Mountain area. [1]
Winnipeg is named after nearby Lake Winnipeg, 65 km (40 mi) north of the city.English explorer Henry Kelsey may have been the first European to see the lake in 1690. He adopted the Cree and Ojibwe name win-nipi (also transcribed win-nipiy or ouenpig) meaning "murky water" or "muddy water" [12] [13] [14] (modern Cree: wīnipēk, ᐑᓂᐯᐠ).
Zelena, Manitoba, northeast of Makaroff and west of the junction of Provincial Road 594 and Highway 83 - the Ukrainian word for "green". Zhoda, Manitoba, north of Vita and southeast of Steinbach on Highway 12; the Ukrainian word for "harmony". Zoria, Manitoba, [41] east of Sifton off Highway 10 - the Ukrainian word for "dawn".
The Manitoba Legislature was built in the neoclassical style that is common to many other North American state and provincial legislative buildings of the 19th century and early 20th century. The Legislature was built to accommodate representatives for three million people, which was the expected population of Manitoba at the time.
John Norquay, Métis politician, Premier of Manitoba from 1878 to 1887 Malcolm Norris , Métis politician, activist, and leader. Norris was a founder and the first vice-president of the first Alberta Métis organization (1932) called the Association des Métis d’Alberta et des Territories du Nord-Ouest (Alberta Métis Association).