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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] In 1926, she married Chong Lim Fung, who had been working in Canada since 1911.
Wellington "Duke" DeCoursey founded the newspaper in 1960 after moving to Thompson from Dauphin, Manitoba, where he published the Central Manitoba News.DeCoursey started other local newspapers, including the News of the North and the Birch River Reporter, as well as authoring books on Canada's north and early Alberta.
Archives of Manitoba (French: Archives du Manitoba), formerly the Provincial Archives of Manitoba (Direction des archives provinciales) until 2003, [1] is the official government archive of the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is located at 200 Vaughan Street in Winnipeg, where it has been established since January 1971. [2]
SS Ithaka is a wrecked steam freighter and landmark on the coast of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba.Originally built as the lake freighter Frank A. Augsbury for the Canadian George Hall Coal & Shipping Corporation in 1922, she went on to sail for a variety of different owners in different locations being renamed to Granby in 1927, Parita II in 1948, Valbruna in 1951, Lawrencecliffe Hall in ...
By the 1910s, forests in Wisconsin and Minnesota were running out of wood, and many of the lumbermen began moving to Canada to find new forests to harvest. In 1919, the Finger Lumber Company in The Pas, Manitoba , suffered a barn fire at their sawmill, and David Judson Winton used this event as an opportunity to buy-out the company and shift ...
A formal apology from the Manitoba government was issued by Gord Mackintosh, Manitoba's Minister of Justice, on July 14, 2000. The apology addressed the failure of the province's justice system in Osborne's case. The province created a scholarship in Osborne's name for Aboriginal women.
Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation (Ojibwe: Gaa-wiikwedaawangaag) is an Ojibwa First Nation in Manitoba, Canada As of the 2016 Canadian Census , it had a population of 2,515; [ 1 ] while the First Nation's website reported a membership of 6,905 individuals as of December 2019.
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.