Manitoba: Its History, Geography, Independence and the Nazi Invasion?
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Welcome to Manitoba, a province located in the longitudinal center of Canada, bordered by Saskatchewan, Ontario, Nunavut, North Dakota, and Minnesota. Known for its small-town charm and historical significance, Manitoba's capital and largest city is Winnipeg. The province features diverse landscapes, from the low elevation near Hudson Bay to the peak of Baldy Mountain. Major bodies of water include Lake Winnipegosis and Lake Winnipeg, while important rivers are the Red, Assiniboine, Nelson, and Churchill Rivers.
Manitoba has an extreme climate, with cold winters influenced by Arctic air masses and warm summers from the Gulf of Mexico. Southern Manitoba, including Winnipeg, experiences a humid continental climate with frequent blizzards and tornadoes, the most notable being the F5 tornado in Elie.
Churchill, known as the "Polar Bear Capital of the World," offers unique opportunities to observe polar bears, Northern Lights, and beluga whales. Thompson is notable for its large nickel deposits and boreal forest location.
Historically, the area was inhabited by First Nations peoples before European exploration and the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Significant historical events include the Red River Rebellion led by Louis Riel, the creation of the Province of Manitoba through the Manitoba Act, and the expansion of the province’s borders in 1881 and 1912.
Winnipeg's growth was fueled by the Canadian Pacific Railway, making it a major economic hub in the early 20th century. However, its growth slowed post-World War I, with other cities like Calgary rising. The Hudson Bay Railway and the port of Churchill, completed in 1929, aimed to facilitate grain transport but faced numerous challenges.
During World War II, Winnipeg became a key center for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The Red River Flood in 1950 led to the construction of the Red River Floodway, protecting Winnipeg from future floods.
Today, Manitoba boasts a diverse economy with strengths in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and hydroelectric power. Cultural diversity is celebrated through festivals like Folklorama, and the province supports a thriving arts scene. Despite high real estate demand in Canada, Winnipeg remains relatively affordable compared to other major cities.
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Judging from the many mis-pronounciations it's fair to assume that this was made by some one who isn't from Manitoba, which is AWESOME! Somebody outside of here has heard of us!
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I see a lot of people being hard on him about pronunciation and for missing an odd city, but overall the video is a good summary of Manitoba. Thank you for creating a video about our province!
A nice overview. No mention of the 1919 general strike. A major effect on Cahadian rights of collective bargaining.
Not the most informative video and more than a couple errors
Bolshevik expansion was not particularly uncommon in many cities in the western world. Winnipeg was just one of many such cities to see the impact of Bolshevik expansion. Riots and destruction were their method of expanding Communist idealism.
Great video. Love the inclusion of the often forgotten aviation history of the city. The hockey team isn't called the Jets for no reason, after all.
Fun fact: The Red River Floodway was the second largest earth moving project in the world, only behind the Panama Canal!
And it was nicknamed Duff's Ditch after Premier Dufferin Roblin, at first a derogatory nickname because people scoffed at the expense, but later a beloved nickname when the floodway turned out to be extremely effective.
Scrolling on RUclips and I get recommended a history video of my own province?? I’m down!
Im truly blown away by the quality of this video! Being Manitoban myself I love learning about our history and this is by far the best production I’ve seen out of any Manitoban history video.
Raised in Winnipeg with under 1 million pop, I can’t imagine being raised in New York or Toronto or most other cities in that matter which have above 1 million, it’s been a nice perspective living with a much lower population
Constructive criticism: You missed Steinbach as a city. Poluation 17,806 in the 2021 census. Also all the French names are mispronounced. Louis Riel, Métis etc are non anglophone terms.
Some items could have been expanded, though I love that I leaned some new things about the province of my youth.
As a Steinbacher myself, I was gonna make a similar comment but you beat me to it haha
Grew up in La Broquerie, still have those Automobile City commercials in my head… it’s worth the trip….
@@chnadeau1 Haha a unique form of torture
So rare to find another steinbacher on RUclips lol
Actually, from La Broquerie, though living in Québec now.
During the evening of June 22, 2007, a powerful F5 tornado struck the town of Elie, in the Canadian province of Manitoba (40 km (25 mi) west of Winnipeg). It was the strongest tornado ever recorded in Canada. 2:37 Not 2016 as mentioned.
You kinda glossed over the whole Dumont and Riel and rebellion thing. And the size of those lakes, lol, could be put iinto perspective too. As in, which is bigger lake Winnipeg or Prince Edward Island? I am going with a lake...guesses anyone? PEI could be island in lake Superior? Hmm, asking google now, lol
The CP railway was originally planned to go through Selkirk. Winnipeg knew that would be a massive blow and make Selkirk more attractive to investment and settlers so they pledged $300,000 to make a bridge over the red and somehow that worked.
You didn't mention Rooster Town in Winnipeg.
My family immigrated to the lakes district in manitoba around 1900. A group of Icelanders were on their way to North Dakota when they were stopped by some form of government representation and offered free land where they could start a republic of their own and maintain their language and culture without interference from the government. That was a bit of a lie as 100 years later we’re all fully assimilated into canadian culture without a shred of our heritage left.
Provinces like Ab and MB put laws in to stop the hutterites from expanding too I believe
@@BeatModeProductionsthat is extremely different.
I was wondering about the Viking Statue in Gimli for so long, that's really great information!
@@stephennelson4964 How?
@@BeatModeProductions those were Germans, this is our native land, if it were in Germany and it was a small subsection of Germans being ostracized by their own colonizers sure but the Germans were some of the heaviest colonizers of this country
Great video!! Keep up the great work :)
Well done video. As a resident if BC never really thought I'd be so intensely watching a video abt Manitoba 😂, this just really goes to show the conciseness and the quality of ur content. As smo mentioned before u may have missed steinbach or some small things but as u keep doing these it's naturally gonna get better overall definitely 8.5-9/10 keep it up.
Thanks for the encouragement:)
What a delightful informative video!
Metis is pronounced “May-tee”.
My great grandpa was actually a pilot instructor in world war 2 so it’s cool to see you mention it!
This is better than history in school I never new so many things lol
Well, today I learned why Winnipeg's hockey team is named the "Jets"
I didn't think of that but wow you are totally right lol!
849,000
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Great video
Just got back from Churchill Highly Recommend
I did the Beluga Kayaking Tour as well Zodiac boat tour it was unreal
Probably saw Hundreds of Belugas in 1 day
Great video, but you forgot to mention something about hockey. Im moraly obligated to tell you this
Your right, I should be adding a hockey chapter to each of the vids
Nice video. Thanks. You missed one of my favorite bits of Manitoba history--New Iceland. This is the only place with an Icelandic colony. There is a nice Wikipedia page on it if you want to learn more.
Damn, that does sound interesting
Well I may make fun of our Manitoba but it's where I was born and where I'll take my last breath as well!
Thank you ❤
Thank you for the video on my home province. God bless.
Do Saskatchewan next!
Hudon Bay Coy originated in two French Canadians, Radisson and Des Groseillers, going to London and selling the project to Prince Rupert and the king. They had been to Hudson Bay by land traded with the Indians.
Love your deep dives videos! I think there is not enough for part 2 just yet. Let things unfold, I think we will witness their messy divorce pretty soon
Ya missed one important fact,
Winnipeg has been the murder capital of Canada for like a decade. 😂😂😂
Yeah committed by First Nations. What useless pathetic fact. And nothing be proud of.
Not per capita, Thunder Bay has been beating it the last few years I believe. For cities over 100,000.
A couple people from Manitoba history are John tanner and Ken leishman
Nice idea, I should add a famous people chapter to my vids
please do british columbia
It’s coming
What about Swan River, Neepawa and Steinbach ? Those are all cities. Steinback is bigger than dauphin and swan river and neepawa are close in size but not much smaller than dauphin.
as someone who lives in Selkirk. We have over 7.5k people????
Hehe not the first vid I've seen where Metis is mispronounced (The 's' is silent, look at it as a title with some French origin in its pronunciation, kind of think about it as 'may-tee' like how a pirate would say it but not so exaggerated haha)
Friendly Manitoba except west part of donwntown Winnipeg with diameter 2 km square. Main street ,NOtre Damme ave, McDermot ave. basically North of North west has terrible image .
It’s pronunciation is May-Tees for the metis people
i'm from the 291 route yee High north rez
Elie = e lie
Metis = may tea
Keewatin = Key wait in
DO SASKATCHEWAN NEXT, PLEASE!
Manitoba was founded on canoes and kayaks:)
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2 Lakes that lead to the crestat the forks like a V in an upside down T, 2, blood lines from the east 2 the West. But what's coming is intimate, yeah Man, I, TOByA first, its gonna B the the BEST, MUSIC 2 the ears of the rest.
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Its pronounced E-lie not Ellie
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What we need to do now Is create the infostructure for the north west passage that then regardless of who trys to utilize it in comeing time we would already own all the infostructure for trading on north west passage wich would then be the cheapest way to send goods across the world.making canada the trade capital and with our natural ressorses we would be set but instead we broke and screwed cuz liberal gov ..who helps ukrain and imagrents but not canada or there own ppl ..im not against immagration but atleast take care of citizens first and do the smart things so then we can afford to help ppl. If we utilized our own natural resources rather then selling it to ppl and buying back at inflaighted prices. We would be one the richest country's in the world
And manitoba has one of the largest snake breeding pits of any other place in the world with the gardener snakes
If you care: hella Manitoba facts from a Manitobain in the replies vvv
The town of Elie (2:38) the is pronounced "E - lie" as in the letter "E" and the word "lie"
(3:17) In the summer, due to the millions of lakes and ponds as well as the swampy terrain, you can only access Churchill from the rest of Manitoba by train or plane. In the winter, ice roads are made to allow for trucks to transport in and out. Makes this town very remote and hard to reach.
Another Churchill fun fact is that its very common for (pine) trees to only have branches on their non windward side because of the intense winds than come off of Hudson's Bay.
(6:03) Assiniboine is pronounced "Ass - sin - a - boy - ne"
(6:48) Ojibwe is pronounced "O - jib - way"
(7:38) The Manitoba Museum was built around the restored Nonsuch ship and now when visiting you can actually go on the ship. Best part of any childhood school field trip.
(19:56) The Red River Floodway has lots of "lookout" spots over it but the floodway is basically empty every year and it's just a glorified ditch. These spots are now mostly only used by teens for hook-ups and drugs 😅
Overall, very good video. There isn't a lot of media around Manitoba so this was nice to see.
Missing a lot of the darker parts of Manitoba's history (smallpox blankets, residential schools, Chinese rail labour camps, broken government promises) as well as current day problems (gang activity, homelessness, missing and killed Indigenous women, Winnipeg's drug problem).
BUT I appreciate the light tone of the video and understand leaving out a place's darker past for a video that will likely be some people's only knowledge of a place.
Other interesting things missed: the 1919 general strike, the town of Gimli with the largest Icelandic community in Canada, the Canadian Royal Mint (makes coins for 50+ countries), the insanely intense hockey culture. AND what I find most interesting, the origin of the name 'Manitoba' from Cree because of its many many many lakes.
I'll refer to this in the future :)
Ass sin a boin river
Affordable and reliable health care!?!? 🤣🤣 wtf are you talking aboot?? Wages are far less here soo have fun living on EI and SA!
Not meaning to sound whiny, but use a proper map, Saskatchewan is not a rectangle.
It was in the 1800s when it first formed lol
@dkaczur4092 the province, as it is known today, was established in 1905.
@MsAntiflo the maps he showed were 1800s and it was a rectangle
@@dkaczur4092 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Saskatchewan
As noted, four provisional districts were amalgamated in 1905.
@@MsAntiflo you're a moron man, I don't give a shit about the 1900s, he referenced the 1800s
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hate winnipeg , thank god i dont live here anymore . best for boomers tho
As we journey toward reconciliation with our First Nations brothers and sisters, I think it's important to point out that "aboriginal" is not an appropriate term. It implies that there was something wrong with these people groups. Nothing was wrong with THEM, it was wrong with the attitude of the Settlers.
I'm writing this because I hope it helps move us forward on our road to Reconciliation, not to be pedantic.
Who are you that you feel qualified to speak on Canadian colonization when you can’t even pronounce “Métis”?
(Saying nothing of the numerous other Indigenous Nations whose name you’ve butchered)
It would show more respect if you made an effort to correctly pronounce place names and historical figures you cover in in your videos. Like if you're going to say a name 20-50 times in a video, shouldn't learning how to pronounce it properly be respectful for the people you're covering? I say this for your other videos too, not just this one. I don't get it.
Winnipeg is a best province except the downtown natives which makes the downtown a dangerous place for our family to explore.