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Emerson, Manitoba
Emerson is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district (LUD) in south central Manitoba, Canada, located within the Municipality of Emerson – Franklin. It has a population of 678 as of the 2016 Canada census. Location and transportation Emerson is 96 kilometres south of Winnipeg along the Red River, just north of the United States border at the point where the province of Manitoba and states of Minnesota and North Dakota meet. Being in the far southwestern corner of municipality, the LUD shares borders with the Rural Municipality of Montcalm in Manitoba, Pembina County in North Dakota, and Kittson County in Minnesota. The towns of St. Vincent, Minnesota, and Pembina, North Dakota, are just a few kilometres south of the border in the United States. The unincorporated community of Noyes, Minnesota, lies immediately across the border from Emerson; however, the border crossing between the two is now closed. The principal roads serving Emerson are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 of 1,342,153 as of 2021. Manitoba has a widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the Northern Region, Manitoba, north to dense Boreal forest of Canada, boreal forest, large freshwater List of lakes of Manitoba, lakes, and prairie grassland in the central and Southern Manitoba, southern regions. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have inhabited what is now Manitoba for thousands of years. In the early 17th century, English and French North American fur trade, fur traders began arriving in the area and establishing settlements. The Kingdom of England secured control of the region in 1673 and created a territory named Rupert's Land, which was placed under the administration of the Hudson's Bay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red River Of The North
The Red River (), also called the Red River of the North () to differentiate it from the Red River of the South, Red River in the south of the continent, is a river in the north-central United States and central Canada. Originating at the confluence of the Bois de Sioux River, Bois de Sioux and Otter Tail River, Otter Tail rivers between the U.S. states of Minnesota and North Dakota, it flows northward through the Red River Valley, forming most of the border of Minnesota and North Dakota and continuing into Manitoba. It empties into Lake Winnipeg, whose waters join the Nelson River and ultimately flow into Hudson Bay. The Red River is about long, of which about are in the United States and about are in Canada.Red River Map 3 Minnesota DNR; map shows the international border at river mile 155. The river falls on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border. The five lakes are Lake Superior, Superior, Lake Michigan, Michigan, Lake Huron, Huron, Lake Erie, Erie, and Lake Ontario, Ontario (though hydrologically, Lake Michigan–Huron, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water, joined at the Straits of Mackinac). The Great Lakes Waterway enables modern travel and shipping by water among the lakes. The lakes connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River, and to the Mississippi River basin through the Illinois Waterway. The Great Lakes are the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and the second-largest by total volume. They contain 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume. The total surface is , and the total volume (measured at the low water datum) is , slightly less than the volume of Lake Baikal (, 22–23% of the world's surface f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada–United States Border
The international border between Canada and the United States is the longest in the world by total length. The boundary (including boundaries in the Great Lakes, Atlantic, and Pacific coasts) is long. The land border has two sections: Canada's border with the Northern Tier (United States), northern tier of the contiguous United States to its south, and with the U.S. state of Alaska to its west. The bi-national International Boundary Commission deals with matters relating to marking and maintaining the boundary, and the International Joint Commission deals with issues concerning boundary waters. The agencies responsible for facilitating legal passage through the international boundary are the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). History 18th century The Treaty of Paris (1783), Treaty of Paris of 1783 ended the American Revolutionary War between Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and the United States. In the second article o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emerson Highway Map
Emerson may refer to: People * Emerson (surname), a surname (and list of people with that name) * Emerson (given name), a given name (and list of people with that name) * Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American philosopher and essayist Places Australia * Emerson Crossing, a place in Adelaide Canada * Emerson, Manitoba ** Pembina–Emerson Border Crossing ** Emerson (electoral district), a former electoral division in Manitoba * Emerson, Weldford Parish, New Brunswick United Kingdom * Emerson's Green or Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire, England * Emerson Park, a suburb in Greater London United States * Emerson (Gary), a neighborhood in north-central Gary, Indiana * Emerson, Arkansas * Emerson, Georgia * Emerson, Iowa * Emerson, Michigan * Emerson, Nebraska * Emerson, New Jersey * Emerson, North Carolina * Emerson, Ohio * Emerson, West Virginia * Emerson Hill, Staten Island, a neighborhood of New York City * Emerson Township, Michigan * Emerson Township, Dixon County, Nebrask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manitoba Provincial Road 200
Provincial Road 200 (PR 200) is a provincial road in Manitoba. It runs from the Perimeter Highway (PTH 100) at Winnipeg to the border town of Emerson, ending at Manitoba Highway (PTH) 75 at Emerson, near the Canada–United States border. Route description PR 200 begins as a continuation of Winnipeg Route 52 (St. Mary's Road) immediately south of the Perimeter Highway in Winnipeg and runs southward parallel to the flood plain of the meandering Red River. It passes through the community of St. Adolphe and passes by Ste. Agathe before leaving the Red River to run directly south through a heavily agricultural area to the community of Dominion City. There it turns east, joining with Provincial Road 201 for 1.6 kilometres (1 mile), before turning south again, towards Emerson. At the south end of Emerson, PR 200 stops at an intersection only from the United States border and from the former Noyes–Emerson East Border Crossing, barricaded since 2006. This intersection was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manitoba Highway 75
Provincial Trunk Highway 75 (PTH 75, also officially known as the Lord Selkirk Highway) is a major highway in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is the main link between the city of Winnipeg and the Canada–United States border, United States border, where it connects with Interstate 29/U.S. Route 81 (I-29/US 81). Route description The highway, which is part of Canada's National Highway System (Canada), National Highway System, begins at the Pembina–Emerson Border Crossing and runs approximately 101 kilometres (63 miles) north, along on the west side of the Red River of the North, Red River, to Winnipeg where it connects with Pembina Highway (Winnipeg Route 42). The northern end of PTH 75 is its junction with Winnipeg's Perimeter Highway (Winnipeg), Perimeter Highway, which is part of the Trans-Canada Highway system. PTH 75 is also part of an International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor, a network of highways and rail lines that connects cities in central reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noyes, Minnesota
Noyes ( ) is an unincorporated community in St. Vincent Township, Kittson County, Minnesota, United States. Located in the extreme northwestern corner of the state on the Canada–United States border, Noyes is the northern terminus of U.S. Highway 75 and site of a former road border crossing. U.S. Customs and Border Protection operates a customs inspection station for the Canadian Pacific and BNSF Railway lines that enter from Canada at Noyes. The community of Emerson, Manitoba, lies adjacent to Noyes on the Canadian side of the border. History A post office called Noyes was established in 1927, and remained in operation until 1990. The community was named for J. A. Noyes, a customs agent. Today, Noyes is essentially a quiet community. Because of its proximity to the flood-prone Red River, it is protected by a levee which extends south from Emerson. The levee was built in 1989 as part of the International Levee agreement between both countries. When flooding cuts off Noyes f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pembina, North Dakota
Pembina () is a city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 512 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Pembina is located south of the Canada–United States border, Canada–US border. Interstate 29 in North Dakota, Interstate 29 passes on the western side of Pembina, leading north to the Canada–US border at Emerson, Manitoba and south to the cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota, Grand Forks and Fargo, North Dakota, Fargo. The Pembina–Emerson Border Crossing is the busiest between Peace Arch Border Crossing, Surrey–Blaine, and Ambassador Bridge, Windsor–Detroit, and the fifth busiest along the Canada-United States border. It is one of three 24-hour Port of entry, ports of entry in North Dakota, the others being Portal, North Dakota, Portal and Dunseith, North Dakota, Dunseith. The Noyes–Emerson East Border Crossing, located to the east on the Minnesota side of the Red River of the North, Red River, also processed cross-border traffic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kittson County, Minnesota
Kittson County is a county in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Minnesota along the Canada–US border, south of the Canadian province of Manitoba. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,207. Its county seat is Hallock. History Evidence of occupation dating back 1800 years has been confirmed through archaeological expeditions done in the 1930s and 1970s around the burial mounds on the sand ridges in the eastern part of the county, which date to the Woodland Period. Evidence has been found that the Laurel, Arvilla, St. Croix, and Blackduck complexes were the area's early occupants. About 400 years ago, the Cree The Cree, or nehinaw (, ), are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people, numbering more than 350,000 in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada, First Nations. They live prim ..., Assiniboine people, Assiniboine, Sioux and Ojibway inhabited the county. The early explorers of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pembina County, North Dakota
Pembina County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,844, and was estimated to be 6,588 in 2024, The county seat and the largest city is Cavalier. History For thousands of years, various indigenous peoples inhabited the area along the Pembina and Red rivers. At the time of European contact in the 16th century, the dominant tribes were the Assiniboine and the Lakota (or Sioux, as the French colonists called them). The Ojibwe, also known as Chippewa, a branch of the Anishinaabe-speaking language group, gradually migrated west along both sides of the Great Lakes. They developed a long trading relationship with French trappers and colonists. Throughout the Red River of the North area, French trappers married Native American women, and their descendants continued to hunt and trap. A large mixed-race population developed, recognized as an ethnic First Nations group in Canada called the ''Métis''. The Ojibwe and Métis generally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural Municipality Of Montcalm
The Rural Municipality of Montcalm () is a rural municipality (RM) in the Pembina Valley Region of Manitoba in Western Canada. As of 2021, Montcalm has a population of 1,278 people. Three Francophone towns are located in Montcalm: St. Joseph, Letellier, and St. Jean Baptiste. History The Rural Municipality of Montcalm was incorporated on May 25, 1881. It was named for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712-1759), commander of French forces on the Plains of Abraham at Quebec. Geography The Rural Municipality of Montcalm is located in the Pembina Valley Region of Manitoba, with an area of . The Canada–United States border opposite Pembina County, North Dakota, forms a small part of Montcalm's southern boundary; there is no direct road link between the RM and county. The Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation is situated between Montcalm and the neighbouring Municipality of Emerson – Franklin. Montcalm also borders the municipalities of Rhineland, De Salaberry, and Morris, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
