PROVINCE OF MANITOBA

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Manitoba's 100,000 lakes cover approximately 17% or 101,600 km2 of its surface area.

There is a lake in Manitoba called Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake, 54ƒ 01' 42" N - 93ƒ 32' 00" W. Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake- South of Red Sucker Lake. Native name (probably Cree) meaning wild angling, or literally, where the wild trout are caught by fishing with hooks. This is the longest official geographical name in Manitoba.

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Manitoba

6.5 % of Canada's Area

3.84 % of Canada's Population

 

How Manitoba & Winnipeg got their names

MANITOBA

Created as a province in 1870, the name was probably first applied to Lake Manitoba. There are two theories as to the origin of the name. (1) It is of Assiniboine origin: Mini and tobow meaning "Lake of the Prairie", or in French "Lac des Prairies", the name used by La Vérendrye. (2) The more probable source is the Cree maniotwapow, "the strait of the spirit or manitobau ". This refers to the roaring sound produced by pebbles on a beach on Manitoba Island in Lake Manitoba. The noise "gave rise to the superstition among the Indians that a manito or spirit beats a drum".

WINNIPEG

Capital city of Manitoba, lake, and river. This name is from the Cree Winnipi and may be freely translated as "dirty water" or "murky water". The lake was designated as Sea Lake by Thompson in 1816.

 

 

 

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Brandon 49° 52' N 99° 59' W
Churchill AP (S) 58° 45' N 94° 4' W
Dauphin AP 51° 6' N 100° 3' W
Flin Flon 54° 46' N 101° 51' W
Portage La Prairie AP 49° 54' N 98° 16' W
The Pas AP (S) 53° 58' N 101° 6' W
Winnipeg AP (S) 49° 54' N 97° 14' W