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Starting with the Winnipeg Gas Company, a supplier of gas for lighting, many more gas, electricity, and transportation companies evolved in Manitoba during late 1800s until 2002 when Manitoba Hydro became the sole supplier of electricity.
The Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board (French: La Régie de l’hydro-électricité du Manitoba), operating as Manitoba Hydro, is the electric power and natural gas utility in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1961, it is a provincial Crown Corporation, governed by the Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board and the Manitoba Hydro Act.
May 13, 2021 · A bronze plaque first installed by the former Manitoba Power Commission at its head office in 1949, to honour its employees who served and who were killed in WWII, has been re-installed by Manitoba Hydro at its corporate office in downtown Winnipeg.
Jun 9, 2019 · On March 12, 1873, Robert Davis — who owned the Davis House hotel on Main Street, about a block from Portage Avenue — used an electric arc light to illuminate the front of his building,...
Nov 7, 2020 · After decades of undertaking hydroelectric development without Indigenous consent, Manitoba Hydro offered to partner with four Cree First Nations whose traditional territories will be impacted by the Keeyask dam.
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We’re Manitoba’s electricity and natural gas provider, and offer a wide range of energy efficiency programs. We also export electricity to provincial neighbours and USA markets.
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In 1961, the provincial government merged the commission with the Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board to create Manitoba Hydro. In 1973, 100 years after the first light went on at that Main Street hotel, the last of the independent power utilities in the province — the Northern Manitoba Power Company Ltd. — was taken over by Hydro.
