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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]
March 21, 1881 — Manitoba Boundaries Act passed in Parliament, providing for an extension of the province's borders. December 11, 1883 — Standard time adopted throughout the province. August 11, 1884 — Boundary dispute between Manitoba and Ontario settled by a decision of the judicial committee of the Privy Council.
Manitoba was expanded, gaining land from the District of Keewatin and North-West Territories to the west, north, and east. [i] Since the province's new eastern border was defined as the "western boundary of Ontario", the exact definition of which was still unclear, Ontario disputed a portion of the new region. [28] [27] May 7, 1886
The Manitoba Museum is the largest museum in Manitoba and focuses on Manitoban history from prehistory to the 1920s. [156] The full-size replica of the Nonsuch is the museum's showcase piece. [ 157 ] The Manitoba Children's Museum at The Forks presents exhibits for children. [ 158 ]
This is a brief timeline of the history of Canada, comprising important social, economic, ... surrendering lands in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario. [66]
The history of Ontario covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands that make up present-day Ontario, the most populous province of Canada as of the early 21st century have been inhabited for millennia by groups of Aboriginal people, with French and British exploration and colonization commencing in the 17th century.
Ontario since 1867 (1978), narrative history; Stagni, Pellegrino. The View from Rome: Archbishop Stagni's 1915 Reports on the Ontario Bilingual Schools Question. McGill-Queen's U. Press, 2002. 134 pp. Warecki, George M. Protecting Ontario's Wilderness: A History of Changing Ideas and Preservation Politics, 1927–1973. Lang, 2000. 334 pp.
Shoal Lake area in Manitoba c.1899 ) [85]: 104 author of Great leader of the Ojibway: Mis-quona-queb, recounts the Ojibwe peoples' 500-year-long journey in the 14th and 15th centuries migrating from the Zhiiwitaagani-gichigami (Atlantic Ocean) down the St. Lawrence River to Montreal, past the Lachine Rapids to Mattawa, Ontario, down the French ...