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Email:
christinejames@royallepage.ca
ellierosenblat@royallepage.ca
Phone: (204) 989-5000
Fax: (204) 989-7911
Address:
Royal LePage Dynamic R.E
1450 Corydon Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3N0J3
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Winnipeg Information
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Winnipeg Arts
"Winnipeg relaxes into its everyday identity as the performing arts capital of Canada. Or possibly, of North America," says the Globe and Mail, January 27, 1996.
Winnipeg Sports
Winnipeg is a sports lover's paradise. In 1999 Winnipeg hosted the Pan Am Games. The Games attracted more than 6,500 athletes from 42 countries, making it the largest sporting event ever held in Canada, surpassing even the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. If you love sports, Winnipeg offers them all. With over 77 provincial sports bodies based in the city.
Education & Schools
Daycare
Important Numbers
Manitoba Government Web Site
City of Winnipeg Web Site
Winnipeg Property Assessment Web Site
Winnipeg General Information
Winnipeg's
Golden Boy statue, perched 77 metres atop the Manitoba Legislative
Building, a sheaf of wheat under one arm and a torch held high in
the other, stands as a symbol of "equality for all" - an ideology
befitting one of Canada's most ethnically diverse cities.
LOCATION
AND DESCRIPTION
Winnipeg
sits at the geographical centre of North America at the confluence
of the Red and Assinboine Rivers in southeastern Manitoba. It is
Manitoba's capital city and its political, industrial and cultural
centre.
CLIMATE
Summers
temperatures range from warm to hot in Winnipeg (13° to 26°
C on average). Winters are long and cold, with temperatures falling
from -13° to -24° C. Winnipeg receives 504 millimetres of
precipitation annually, much of that as snow. On some winter nights
the colourful northern lights (aurora borealis) can be seen from
the city.
ECONOMY
Winnipeg
has a broad industrial base. Its central location has made Winnipeg
the "Gateway to the West," a principal transportation and distribution
centre, especially for goods travelling to western Canada and the
United States from eastern Canada. The Canadian Wheat board and
many grain companies have located head offices in Winnipeg, due
to its close proximity to the fertile farmlands of the Prairies.
The Winnipeg Commodity Exchange is Canada's chief grain market.
Over half of the agricultural machinery manufactured in Canada is
built in Winnipeg. Brewing, meatpacking and the textile industry
are also major Winnipeg employers, and a bus factory manufactures
many of North America's highway buses.
All
of Canada's coins are produced in Winnipeg at the Royal Canadian
Mint. The mint produces over 30 million loonies (Canada's one-dollar
coin) every year.
PEOPLE
Over
half of Manitoba's population resides in greater Winnipeg, including
more than 43 cultural groups. People of British descent account
for the largest ethnic group (24 percent), while large populations
of Ukrainians, Germans, French, Filipinos, Poles, Jews and Chinese
add diversity to Winnipeg's cultural landscape. Winnipeg is also
home to the largest francophone population outside of Quebecand
the largest Aboriginal and Metis population of any Canadian city.
CULTURE
AND RECREATION
Winnipeg
offers an abundance of cultural facilities and events with its own
symphony orchestra, ballet troupe, live theatre groups, museums
and an opera. The CFL's Blue Bombers thrill football fans in Winnipeg
Stadium while hockey fans can cheer on the IHL's Manitoba Moose
at Winnipeg Arena.
Outdoor
enthusiasts will enjoy Winnipeg's 900 parks and athletic fields.
There is a plentitude of skating and curling rinks, golf courses,
swimming pools and tennis courts. Magnificent, white sand beaches
lie less than an hour outside of Winnipeg on the shores of Lake
Winnipeg.
Two
daily newspapers, five local television stations and 10 radio stations
(including a French language television station and a multi-lingual
radio station) serve Winnipeg.
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Manitoba Information
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A Nature Lover's Paradise
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Information About Manitoba
 As
famous for crystal-clear lakes and infinite forests as for its prairie farmland,
Manitoba is a nature lover's paradise.
Dubbed the Keystone
province for its central economic and geographic location, Manitoba marks the
halfway point between Canada's Atlantic and Pacific Ocean coasts. It is bordered
by Ontario to the east, Saskatchewan to the west, Nunavut Territory to the north
and the American states North Dakota and Minnesota to the south. A swath of Hudson
Bay coastline makes up a large chunk of Manitoba's northeast border.
Much of Manitoba is
covered by lakes and rivers, a point not lost on anglers who troll the province's
waterways for pickerel, pike, bass, trout, sauger and whitefish. Lake Winnipeg,
occupying much of south-central Manitoba, is the 13th largest freshwater lake
in the world - larger than Lake Ontario. Manitoba has North America's largest
freshwater fishery, largely due to the whitefish fishery on Lake Winnipeg. A large
resort area lies on the lake's south shore near Winnipeg, and fly-in fishing camps
in the province's northern wilderness are popular with American tourists.
Most Manitobans live
in the prairie south, but the Precambrian Shield accounts for the bulk of Manitoba's
geography. About three fifths of the province sits on this rocky, glacier-scraped
terrain. The north is largely unpopulated, except for scattered Indian reserves
and mining towns such as Flin Flon, Thompson and Lynn Lake. Coniferous forests
cover much of this land except in the far northern regions, where trees give way
to tundra and permafrost.
Agriculture is a key
industry in Manitoba. Manufacturing, forestry and mining are also significant
contributors to the diverse economic base.
Once home to a major
fur trade, Manitoba's forests still support rare species such as Arctic fox, marten,
wolf, otter and lynx. Deer, moose, elk, black bears, beaver, raccoons, red fox
and coyotes are plentiful. Not surprisingly, Manitoba attracts hunters from around
the globe. There are more than 100 licensed lodge and outfitter operations in
the province. But the bison, which once thundered across the prairie in countless
thousands, now are confined to small, controlled herds. Still, they survive proudly
on the provincial flag and seal as Manitoba's official emblem.
Polar bears can be
seen in Churchill - an isolated town on Hudson Bay that is a summertime seaport
for Prairie wheat exports. The only way to get to Churchill is by train or airplane.
Even so, the town is renowned as the most easily accessible spot in Canada for
viewing polar bears. Bear-proof vehicles drive them to face-to-face meetings with
the world's largest bears. The northern lights are also a popular draw to Churchill,
although they can be witnessed in other parts of Manitoba and Canada. Beluga whales
swim in the often icy waters of Hudson Bay.
Manitoba
shares with Saskatchewan the bittersweet Prairie climate of dry air, frigid winters
and short but glorious summers. The average July temperature in Winnipeg (in the
south) is a comfortable 20 degrees Celsius, while Churchhill, cooled by the sea
and its subarctic location, averages only 12 degrees. The winters are cold regardless
of location. Winnipeg averages -17 degrees Celsius in January; Churchill a bone-chilling
-26.
Manitobans are primarily
of British descent, but there also substantial populations of First Nations people
and a mosaic of ethnic groups stemming from the early 20th Century when Canada
peopled the Prairies by advertising them abroad as The Last, Best West. There
are large populations of German, French-Canadian, Ukrainian and Polish people.
Manitoba has one of the largest Mennonite populations in the world, mostly in
farm communities south and east of Winnipeg.
More than half of
Manitobans live in the capital, Winnipeg. Home to Canada's only commodities exchange,
Winnipeg is the center of the national grain trade and one of the country's major
industrial, communications, commercial, financial, and insurance centres. Attractions
include the internationally renowned Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Winnipeg Blue
Bombers (of the Canadian Football League) and the Winnipeg Zoo.
The International
Peace Garden, 2,340 acres of stunning flower gardens and pathways on the Manitoba/North
Dakota border, is a popular destination for tourists and locals alike. Spirit
Woods Provincial Park is home to a miniature desert, the Spirit Sands, a 25 square
kilometer patch of sand dunes, cacti and desert creatures like the northern prairie
skink. Riding Mountain National Park shelters one of the last buffalo herds.
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