Facts About Morden Morden was founded in 1882 when the Canadian Pacific Railway built a railway line crossing the Dead Horse Creek The Manitoba government granted Morden town status in 1903 and later city status in 2012. The highest temperature ever recorded in Morden was 111 °F on 11 July 1936. The coldest temperature ever […]
Facts About Thompson Thompson is the largest city in the Northern Region of Manitoba. Thompson was incorporated as a town in 1967 on Canada’s Centennial Anniversary. Thompson is known as the “Hub of the North”. Thompson covers an area of 20.79 square kilometres and is located on the Precambrian Canadian Shield. Thompson was originally founded […]
Facts About Selkirk The city was named in honour of Scotsman Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, who obtained the grant to establish a colony in the Red River area in 1813. Selkirk is a city in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, located on the Red River about 22 kilometres (14 mi) northeast of […]
Facts About Winkler Winkler was incorporated as a Village on the 9th of May 1906, as a Town on the 7th of April, 1954. Winkler is Manitoba’s sixth-largest city and the second fastest-growing city out of nine in the province. The land in southeast Manitoba upon which Winkler sits was the traditional lands of the […]
Facts About Winnipeg The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for muddy water. Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. […]
Facts About Dauphin Dauphin is in western Manitoba near Duck Mountain Provincial Park and Riding Mountain National Park, just west of Lake Manitoba and Dauphin Lake and south of Lake Winnipegosis. The nearby lake was given the name “Dauphin” by the explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de La Vérendrye in 1741 in honour of […]
Facts About Steinbach Steinbach is a city located about 58 km south-east of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Steinbach was incorporated as a town on 31 December 1946, with the Main Street being paved the following year. Steinbach has a population of 15,829, making it the third-largest city in Manitoba and the largest community in the Eastman […]
Facts About Brandon Brandon is the second-largest city in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Brandon covers an area of 77.41 km2 (29.89 sq mi). Brandon gets its name from the Blue Hills south of the city, which got their name from a Hudson’s Bay trading post known as Brandon House, which got its name from […]