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"The Centennial City" — having been incorporated as a town in 1967, Canada's Centennial Anniversary. [72] [73] "Hub of the North" [74] or "Hub City" [75] "Nickel City" [75] Winnipeg "Chicago of the North" [76] — in reference to the famously strong winds in both cities and being major transportation hubs of the time. "Gateway to the West" [77]
The former CKY building is situated next to the mall. It used to house the city's CTV Television Network affiliate, CKY-TV, CKY radio, and FM 92 CITI. It was the original home of the WTN network. Corus Radio Winnipeg has occupied the building since 2011, as part of a lease agreement between Corus Entertainment and Cadillac Fairview.
Winnipeg's Business Improvement Zones (BIZ) are business districts established to enhances economic development for businesses in a particular neighbourhood. [12] Each BIZ is governed and administered by a board, and is regulated by related BIZ by-laws passed by City Council. [13]
Silver City Airways, a British airline; SilverCity, a Canadian movie theater chain run by Cineplex Entertainment; The Silver City, a 1956 memoir by Ion Idriess; Silver City, a 2004 book, second in The Silver Sequence by Cliff McNish
The area grew rapidly from 1945 to 1970 with the construction of the Silver Heights and Birchwood subdivisions in the 1940s and 1950s, and Westwood, Crestview, and St. Charles in the 1960s. In 1956, the RM of St. James became the City of St. James. [12] The first council for the new city met on that year on April 17, with T. D. Findlay as mayor ...
Winnipeg City Hall is the seat of municipal government. Since 1992, the city of Winnipeg has been represented by 15 city councillors and a mayor, both elected every four years. [196] The present mayor, Scott Gillingham, was first elected to office in 2022. [197] The city is a single-tier municipality, governed by a mayor-council system. [18]
The 1971 City of Winnipeg Act, which established the city's boundaries and defined its neighbourhoods, [2] incorporated the City of Winnipeg (1874–1971); the rural municipalities of Charleswood, Fort Garry, North Kildonan, and Old Kildonan; the Town of Tuxedo; the cities of East Kildonan, West Kildonan, St. Vital, Transcona, St. Boniface, and St. James-Assiniboia; and the Metropolitan ...
Manitoba's largest city both in population and by land area is Winnipeg, which has 749,607 residents and spans 461.78 square kilometres (178.29 sq mi); the smallest city in population is Flin Flon with 4,940 residents and the smallest by land area is Dauphin, which covers 12.67 square kilometres (4.89 sq mi). [5]