Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Manitoba [a] 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. [2] ...
Petroforms at Whiteshell Provincial Park.The site is hypothesized to be a First Nations gathering place or trading centre.. The geographical area of modern-day Manitoba was inhabited by the First Nations people shortly after the last ice age glaciers retreated in the south-west approximately 10,000 years ago; the first exposed land was the Turtle Mountain area. [1]
This confluence is connected to the Mississippi River by the Old River Control Structure. The south bank of the Red River formed part of the US–Mexico border from the Adams–Onís Treaty (in force only in 1821) until the Texas Annexation and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Red River basin is the second-largest in the southern Great ...
Thomas Spence was the first person to use the word Manitoba in reference to both the lake and surrounding territory; so, while the government dissolved, the name Manitoba remains to this day. [ 1 ] The story of the Republic of Manitobah was made into a humorous animated short, called Spence's Republic , by the National Film Board of Canada in ...
The first freeway in Texas was a several-mile stretch of US 75 (now I-45)—The Gulf Freeway—opened to Houston traffic on October 1, 1948. The stretch of US 75 between I-30 and the Oklahoma state line has exits numbered consecutively from 1 to 75 (with occasional A and B designations), excluding 9-19.
What remains occurs on the 6,000 km 2 (2,300 sq mi) plain centred in the Red River Valley in Manitoba. Mixed prairie is more common and is part of the dry interior plains that extend from Canada south to the U.S. state of Texas.
Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec were all expanded northward into land from the Northwest Territories. [42] Quebec was expanded north to fill the mainland, Manitoba extended north to the 60th parallel north, and the new border between Manitoba and Ontario ran northeast from the previous northeastern corner of Manitoba. [51] [52] June 1, 1925
Big Tex presided over every Texas State Fair since 1952 until it was destroyed by a fire in 2012. Since then a new Big Tex was created. "Texas-sized" describes something that is about the size of the U.S. state of Texas, [340] [341] or something (usually but not always originating from Texas) that is large compared to other objects of its type.