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The Port of Churchill is a privately-owned port on Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.Routes from the port connect to the North Atlantic through the Hudson Strait.As of 2008, the port had four deep-sea berths capable of handling Panamax-size vessels for the loading and unloading of grain, bulk commodities, general cargo, and tanker vessels.
Provinces and territories whose official names are aboriginal in origin are Yukon, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nunavut.. Manitoba: Either derived from the Cree word manito-wapâw meaning "the strait of the spirit or manitobau" or the Assiniboine words mini and tobow meaning "Lake of the Prairie", referring to Lake Manitoba.
Churchill is a subarctic port town in northern Manitoba, Canada, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, roughly 140 km (87 mi) from the Manitoba–Nunavut border. It is most famous for the many polar bears that move toward the shore from inland in the autumn, leading to the nickname "Polar Bear Capital of the World" and to the benefit of its burgeoning tourism industry.
This is a list of nicknames and slogans of cities in Canada.Many Canadian cities and communities are known by various aliases, slogans, sobriquets, and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national, or international scales, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.
Cities and towns in Manitoba. Manitoba is one of the three Prairie provinces located in Western Canada. [1] According to the 2021 Canadian census, it is the fifth most populous province in Canada with 1,342,153 inhabitants, and the sixth largest province by land area, covering 540,310.19 square kilometres (208,614.93 sq mi).
This is a list of corporations based in Winnipeg.. This includes businesses completely owned and operated out of Winnipeg, as well as corporations that have significant operations (manufacturing, etc.) in Winnipeg, such as American-owned companies that base their Canadian division in Winnipeg (as in the case of Lifetouch Canada). [1]
[1] [2] This list uses names designated by the national Historic Sites and Monuments Board, which may differ from other names for these sites. Numerous National Historic Events also occurred across Manitoba, and are identified at places associated with them using the same style of federal plaques that marks National Historic Sites.
This article is a list of notable shopping malls in Canada by province. Canada's first indoor mall was the Lister Block, originally opened in 1852, in Hamilton, Ontario . [ 1 ] The Lister Block was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1924. [ 2 ]