St. John Brebeuf School (Winnipeg)
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it the sixth-largest city, and eighth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for "muddy water" - “winipīhk”. The region was a trading centre for Indigenous peoples long before the arrival of Europeans; it is the traditional territory of the Anishinabe (Ojibway), Ininew (Cree), Oji-Cree, Dene, and Dakota, and is the birthplace of the Métis Nation. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River Colony in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. Being far inland, the local c ...
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List Of Cities In Manitoba
A city is an incorporated urban municipality in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Manitoba. Under current Manitoba legislation, an urban municipality must have a minimum population of 7,500 to be named a city. Manitoba has 10 cities, including Flin Flon that is partially located within the neighbouring province of Saskatchewan. These cities had a cumulative population of 892,507 and an average population of 89,251 in the 2021 Census. The province's largest and smallest cities are Winnipeg and the Manitoba portion of Flin Flon with populations of 749,607 and 4,940 respectively. The Manitoba portion of Flin Flon once had a population in excess of 7,500 in 1981 when it had 7,894 residents. Manitoba's newest and fastest-growing city is Morden, which was incorporated as a city on August 24, 2012. List ''Notes:'' Former cities Districts of Winnipeg that were incorporated as cities prior to amalgamation on January 1, 1972: * East Kildonan ( ...
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