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Winnipeg—Birds Hill was a federal
Winnipeg—Birds Hill was a federal electoral district
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
in Manitoba
Manitoba is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population ...
, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada
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from 1979 to 1988.
This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Selkirk and St. Boniface ridings. It was contested at federal elections in 1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
, 1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...
, and 1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
. For its entire history, its Member of Parliament was New Democrat
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* New Democratic Party, a social democratic party in Canada
* New Democrats (United States), the ideological centrist faction of the Democratic Party
** New Democrat Coalition, the related caucus in the United States H ...
Bill Blaikie
William Alexander "Bill" Blaikie (June 19, 1951 – September 24, 2022) was a Canadian politician. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2008, representing Elmwood—Transcona and its antecedent ridings in the House of Commons ...
.
Boundary redistribution in 1987 abolished Winnipeg—Birds Hill. Its territory outside the city of Winnipeg
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plus the North Kildonan area was reassigned to Selkirk (later Selkirk—Red River), while the rest of its urban territory went to Winnipeg Transcona. Blaikie continued to serve as MP for Winnipeg Transcona under that name, and later the name of Elmwood—Transcona, from the 1988 federal election until he retired from Parliament in 2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
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Election results
See also
*List of Canadian electoral districts
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Canadian federal electoral districts are constituencies that elect membe ...
* Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
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Federal electoral districts in Canada are re-adjusted every ten years based on the ...
References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Winnipeg-Birds Hill Former federal electoral districts of Manitoba