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The school was originally built in Selkirk on the banks of the Red River, and then relocated by Rev. David Thomas Jones to Winnipeg, on the west bank of the river near present-day St. John's Park. In 1834, there were 20 boys and 21 girls attending the renamed Red River Academy .
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Seven Oaks School Division (SOSD, [1] or colloquially 7 Oaks) is a school division in the north-west area of Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada.Established in July 1959, it takes in the Winnipeg neighbourhoods of West Kildonan, Garden City, the Maples, Riverbend, and Amber Trails, as well as the Rural Municipality of West St. Paul.
Despite the school being constructed with a large, open area in its foundation, there is no evidence that it was ever designed as any sort of bomb shelter. [3] This unused underground space is accessible though a crawlspace near the former basement cafeteria , and a door near the main gym changing rooms.
The population of the Winnipeg Metro Region is greatly concentrated within the city of Winnipeg itself, which has 86.5% of the Region's population residing in less than 6% of its land area. On the provincial level, the city has 54.9% of the province's population, while the Region's share is 63.5%.
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).
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A study in 2013 showed that Winnipeg had two of the three poorest postal code areas in all of Canada (R3A and R3B, both located in the inner city) in regards to family income; in fact these are the two poorest that are located in cities (the poorest was a First Nations reserve in the Cape Breton area). [65] 8,610 of Winnipeg's residents (who ...