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Manitoba (/ ˌ m æ n ɪ ˈ t oʊ b ə / ⓘ MAN-ih-TOH-bə) is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's fifth-most populous province, with a population of 1,342,153 as of 2021.
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Manitoba is divided by three of Canada’s seven physiographic regions. These three regions are the Hudson Bay Lowland, the Canadian Shield and the Interior Plains. Most of Manitoba’s population is concentrated in the southern part of the province, in the Interior Plains physiographic region. This region is also where most of Manitoba’s arable land i...
Indigenous People The area that became Manitoba is part of the traditional territory of the Assiniboine and Dakota who lived on the plains in the south, the Cree whose vast territory stretched from the plains to the Hudson Bay Lowland in the north, and the Dene who occupied the far north. The ancestors of these groups arrived in Manitoba between 10...
Population Since 1961, Manitoba's population growth has been slow but steady, rising from 921,686 in 1961 to 1,342,153 in 2021. Manitoba's population is disproportionately distributed between the "North" and the "South." Although the northern region, the border of which runs from the southern shore of Lake Winnipegosis in the west to the southern s...
List of Manitoba’s 10 Largest Cities Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census When Manitoba joined Confederation, only 4 per cent of its population lived in urban centres. Although it became progressively more urbanized, the province’s population continued to be predominantly rural until 1951. As of the 2016 Census, 73 per cent of Manitoba’s populati...
Hunting and trapping constitute Manitoba's oldest industry; however, today it is one of the province’s smallest. For 200 years, the Hudson’s Bay Company dominated trade in furs across Western Canada as far as the Rocky Mountains. Alongside the fur trade, buffalo hunting developed into the first commercial return of the plains. First Nations people,...
There are 57 seats in Manitoba’s provincial government. Each seat is held by a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) elected by eligible voters in their electoral district. The boundaries of the province’s 57 electoral districts are set to include between 250 and 400 voters. General provincial elections are held every four years on the first Tue...
Most medical services in Canada are free. Money from taxes is pooled together to fund a health care system often referred to as Medicare. While the federal government sets guidelines, each province and territory is responsible for administering its own health care insurance plan; funding for the plan comes from both governments. As with other provi...
Francophones’ battle for the right to receive education in their own language has coloured the history of education in Manitoba. The fight began shortly after the establishment of Manitoba as a province and led to a series of events now known as the Manitoba Schools Question. In 1870, the Manitoba Act created the province of Manitoba, and also esta...
Winnipegis located in the heart of Canada and has historically been a vital link in all forms of east–west transportation. The York Boats of the fur trade and the Red River carts of early settlers gave way first to steamboats on the Red River, then to the great railways of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Subsequently, Winnipeg provided facilitie...
The Manitoba Arts Council promotes the study, enjoyment, production and performance of works in the arts. It assists organizations involved in cultural development; offers grants, scholarships and loans to Manitobans for study and research; and makes awards to individuals. The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Royal Manitoba Theat...
5 days ago · Manitoba, province of Canada, one of the Prairie Provinces, lying midway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is bounded to the north by Nunavut territory, to the northeast by Hudson Bay, to the east by Ontario, to the south by the U.S. states of Minnesota and North Dakota, and to the west by Saskatchewan.
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