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In January 2022, Jagdish Patel, Vaishaliben Patel, and their children Vihangi and Dharmik died in Emerson, Manitoba, twelve meters away from the United States border.The family were killed by the cold, which reached -35°C around the time of their deaths, as they attempted to emigrate from India to the US, via Canada.
Sum Ying Fung (née Eng, Chinese: 吴如英, 27 January 1899 – 6 December 2011), was a Chinese Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest person in Canada in 2011. Sum Ying Eng was born in Wing On Village, Yanping, China in 1899. [35]
Following the passing of the federal Manitoba Act on 12 May 1870, which created the Province of Manitoba, provincial elections were held in November that year, upon which John Taylor was declared the first M.L.A of Headingley, with a majority of one vote—though the new Attorney General appointed James Cunningham to the seat on a "technicality ...
The Winnipeg Free Press (or WFP; founded as the Manitoba Free Press) is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and entertainment and various consumer-oriented features, such as homes and automobiles appear on a weekly basis.
The Department of Families in Manitoba is overseen by the Minister of Families (French: Ministre des Familles), [3] which was assigned to Nahanni Fontaine in 2023, replacing former Minister Rochelle Squires. [3] In 1990, the Minister of Family Services is a cabinet position in the Government of Manitoba. [6]
The original province of Manitoba was a square one-eighteenth of its current size, and was known colloquially as the "postage stamp province". [27] Its borders were expanded in 1881, taking land from the Northwest Territories and the District of Keewatin , but Ontario claimed a large portion of the land; the disputed portion was awarded to ...
The following is a list of the lieutenant governors of Manitoba.Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Manitoba came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1870, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of the Northwest Territories in 1869.
Manitoba's 137 municipalities [2] cover only 21% of the province's land mass yet are home to 95% of its population. [3] [a] These municipalities provide local government services to their residents. A municipality in Manitoba is "a municipality that is continued or formed under" the Municipal Act, which was enacted in 1996. [4]