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The RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg (formerly the Winnipeg Convention Centre) is a major meeting and convention centre located in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It has five levels including indoor parking for 729 vehicles, and three levels of various meeting trade show space totalling 260,000 square feet (24,000 m 2 ).
Community areas [8] are the broader, less detailed level of areas, which allow for geographical analysis and comparisons, i.e. census data, as used by Statistics Canada. [7] [9] Community areas are composed of neighbourhood clusters, [10] which are used for planning and policy purposes by Manitoba Health and the Winnipeg Regional Health ...
The population of the Winnipeg Metro Region is greatly concentrated within the city of Winnipeg itself, which has 86.5% of the Region's population residing in less than 6% of its land area. On the provincial level, the city has 54.9% of the province's population, while the Region's share is 63.5%.
Downtown Winnipeg is an area of Winnipeg located near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. It is the oldest urban area in Winnipeg, and is home to the city's commercial core, city hall, the seat of Manitoba's provincial government , and a number of major attractions and institutions.
Central Park was one of Winnipeg's first four parks, then referred to as "ornamented squares and breathing areas." The land for it was purchased by the city from the Hudson's Bay Company for $20,000 in 1893. [7] The land for the park was swampy in summer and had a significant amount of unusable ground. Thousands of loads of manure and soil were ...
Polo Park (corporately styled as CF Polo Park) is a shopping centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is situated on the former Polo Park Racetrack near the junction of Portage Avenue and St. James Street. Its grounds also includes a Scotiabank Theatre (formerly SilverCity), a TD Canada Trust, a Party City, and an Earl’s.
Highway 3 at its western terminus. Provincial Trunk Highway 3 (PTH 3) is a major provincial highway located in the Canadian province of Manitoba.It runs from the Saskatchewan boundary (where it meets Highway 18) to the southwest city limits of Winnipeg, where it continues as Winnipeg Route 155 (McGillivray Boulevard).
In 1869, the area was ceded by the Hudson's Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada, becoming a focal point for European settlement. Charleswood was incorporated as a Rural Municipality in 1913 [1] and maintained its independence until 1972, when it was merged with the City of Winnipeg during the city's amalgamation. Since the 1930s, Charleswood ...