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Winnipeg is the only major Canadian city on the prairies served by three continental class I railways: Canadian National (CNR), Canadian Pacific (CPR), and BNSF Railway. [ 3 ] A new industrial park named CentrePort Canada Rail Park [ 22 ] is in development on 665 acres (2.69 km 2 ) of CentrePort's 20,000 acres (81 km 2 ) of land, located west ...
Winnipeg's Business Improvement Zones (BIZ) are business districts established to enhances economic development for businesses in a particular neighbourhood. [12] Each BIZ is governed and administered by a board, and is regulated by related BIZ by-laws passed by City Council .
Winnipeg is named after nearby Lake Winnipeg, 65 km (40 mi) north of the city.English explorer Henry Kelsey may have been the first European to see the lake in 1690. He adopted the Cree and Ojibwe name win-nipi (also transcribed win-nipiy or ouenpig) meaning "murky water" or "muddy water" [12] [13] [14] (modern Cree: wīnipēk, ᐑᓂᐯᐠ).
An estimated 400,000 commercial trucks crossed the border through Emerson in 2013 to the United States of America. Approximately 65% of Manitoba’s exports to NAFTA partners (U.S. and Mexico) are transported by truck through the Emerson/Pembina crossing in southern Manitoba. Intermodal in nature, the Corridor allows cost-effective and safe ...
Today's Winnipeg is the product of the City of Winnipeg Act of 1972, which incorporated a number of cities, towns, and rural municipalities into a single larger city (previously administered under the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, since 1960) into an amalgamated unicity. Residents still refer to these historical communities:
Springfield is a rural municipality (RM) in Manitoba, Canada. It stretches from urban industrial development on the eastern boundary of the city of Winnipeg, through urban, rural residential, agricultural and natural landscapes, to the Agassiz Provincial Forest on the municipality's eastern boundary.
The Rural Municipality of Ritchot (French: Municipalité rurale de Ritchot) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Winnipeg Capital Region, bordering the south side of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. The separately-administered town of Niverville lies adjacent to its southeast, between it and the Rural Municipality of Hanover.
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