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Southern Manitoba encompasses the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region, Westman Region, Central Plains Region, Eastman Region, and Pembina Valley Region, as well as the Manitoba portion of Red River Valley. Holding a population of over one million, seven of the ten cities in Manitoba are located in this area, including Winnipeg, Brandon, Portage la ...
Newspaper Prov. City/region Commence Publication Ceased Publication Acme News: AB: Acme: 1910 1914 Acme Sentinel: AB: Acme: 1914 1970 Acme Telegram-Tribune
Winnipeg has two daily newspapers: the Winnipeg Free Press, a broadsheet with the highest circulation numbers in Manitoba, as well as the Winnipeg Sun, a smaller tabloid-style paper. There are several ethnic weekly newspapers, [162] including the weekly French-language La Liberté, and regional and national magazines based in the city.
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Manitoba can also be divided by its First Nations treaties, as part of the Numbered Treaties of Canada. Some include portions of other provinces. [7]: 23 [14] Treaty 1 — comprising Winnipeg (census division 11), and southern Manitoba—roughly the regions of Central Plains, Pembina Valley, and Interlake (excluding northern half of census ...
November 9, 1872 — First edition of the Manitoba Free Press appeared. 1873 — The province's first rural municipality, Springfield and Sunnyside, is incorporated. November 8, 1873 — City of Winnipeg incorporated, with four wards and 12 aldermen. July 31, 1874 — First Russian Mennonites arrived at Winnipeg on the steamer International.
Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba is a 2011 book by Canadian historian Shannon Stunden Bower. The book examines the history of settlement and farming in the unique landscape of southern Manitoba, notable for its poor drainage and thus high levels of moisture that contrast with the aridity of much of the Great Plains. [1]
As of the fall of 2007, the US-owned Southern Manitoba Railway was defunct. The track has been ripped up and sold for scrap metal, and the ties were removed and trucked away. All of the small farming communities in Southern Manitoba which depended on this railway for movement of their grain products now have to rely on trucking instead. [1]