Yes, it's not a great city for walking, which is why the streets are empty. The people are up above you on those bridges. The lieutenant-governor (pronounced _lef te nunt_ ) is a vice-regal position, representing HM King in each province, and she's not part of the government, so she doesn't work in the Legislative Assembly. Gimli, Manitoba has the largest Icelandic population outside Iceland. Robbie Burns never lived in Winnipeg, but a large percentage of Canada's English-speaking heritage comes from Scotland, rather than England. There's a statue of Burns in Vancouver's Stanley Park as well.
I lived in Winnipeg for 20+ years. We saw the cold as a fact of life and found ways to work and play around it. It was no big deal. The beautiful, albeit short, Winnipeg summers made Winnipeg a beautiful place. I miss it although I've lived all over the USA and France and Germany.
@@FromHeretoThere Summers are the COMPLETE OPPOSITE....+30's in the summers is not unusual at all ! And it's soo green. Over 3 million trees. Has to be seen to believed, to see the difference....
@@CensorMeNot-dv5lg Admit it though...the supposed most dangerous city in Canada, is safer than than virtually any city in the States -it's all relative.
The flashing green does NOT mean it's about to turn orange. It means one has the right of way to turn left. The pedestrian bridges aren't just to protect people from extreme cold in winter but also from extreme heat in summer. This video is focusing on the cold in Winnipeg but it's really a city of temperature extremes, both hot and cold.
I haven’t driven in Canada in 20+ years, but I recall that the flashing green lights mean different things in different cities. I recall that in Toronto the flashing green light means a left turn was allowed, while in Vancouver it meant the light was about to turn yellow.
I was driving back from Alberta to Winnipeg a couple of years back and somewhere in SK someone was broken down on the side of the road. I stopped to see if I could help him out. Dude was an immigrant and was laughing as I backed up toward him. I got out of my truck and he says “it’s always the ones from Manitoba that help 😁”. We chatted for a bit about where he was from and so on, it was cool. Not sure if it’s true that it’s always the Manitobans, but, it was on that cold day and that’s enough for me. ✌🏼
love your video, I just moved to Winnipeg from southern China, unexpectedly soon adapted to the cold. People here are friendly and nice and it is a culturally diverse city.
From 13:24 to 40:04 this gentleman is a true Canadian who makes you feel comfortable and welcomed from the moment you start talking to him, long may he and everyone else like him live, hopefully right here in this city that I love so dearly, Winnipeg.
You filmed on the most dreary gross day of the year, and on an empty Sunday morning, in an urban sprawl city, when most people are in the suburbs or having brunch also in the suburbs. Winnipeg is located an hour from two beautiful lakes, with long beaches and cottage country. In the summer, this place is unrecognizable from the footage in this video. C'mon back in july ☀️
As a Canadian I really appreciated this video. I’ve never been to Winnipeg. The older gentleman in the park was a delight. FYI: the building bridges you refer to are called pedways. Thank you for this.
Trust me. Nobody here calls them "Pedways". You can not pedal a bike in them. You'd be kicked out by security. They are skywalks and we can walk all over downtown with shirt sleeves in the middle of winter. You park your car in a parking garage, which we call "Parkades" and you ditch your parka, and shop all over down town.
Having attended the University of Manitoba, I thoroughly enjoyed your tour through this fine city showing me many changes. Thank you. I worked as a Grey Line tour guide in the summers. Your commentary and details were comprehensive. Winnipeg was the most friendly place I have ever lived (having lived internationally as well as in Canada]. Well done. Professor-Elizabeth
I am an immigrant and have lived in Winnipeg for 11 years. It is very cold in the winter but the summers are great. Sometimes hot and the beautiful lake and camping are fantastic. So I enjoy summer to the fullest
@@corybjarnason218housing is not the reason why .... It's the amount of claim that are passed.. other provinces have a higher denial rate .. this is why they work in Manitoba for X amount of time then end up moving after ... My uncle hired a home care worker and after 5 years she left for Edmonton after she gained citizenship.. because Alberta denied her application but Manitoba gave he the chance...
I think it's not where you live that matters, but how i live .I came here first because my friend in Winnipeg was doing business here and he recommended me. He left Winnipeg but I am doing better here than my friend.
Thank you for making this fascinating video. The 1 hour 14 minutes just flew by. We thoroughly enjoyed our vicarious visit to Winnipeg with you. We've always been fascinated by cold cities, and the people who live there. Winnipeg has been a particular object of curiosity for us, after having once watched a surreal, yet engrossing, independent film called "My Winnipeg." We enjoyed your video far more than that movie. Keep up the good work, and God bless all the fine and very hearty citizens of Winnipeg and all of Manitoba. Look forward to your next adventure. We'll be watching.
Thanks for sharing your experiences in Winnipeg! It really speaks to human resilience that so many people choose to live in such a frigid climate, finding beauty and warmth in their community.
To be fair, it is really hard to save up enough money to move to a place that's far away and more expensive 😅. I've met a lot of people who felt trapped here as much as anything, myself included when I was younger and moved to Vancouver from Winnipeg.
Born, raised, and current Winnipegger here, and frequent viewer of your channel. I cant believe Im seeing this channel make a video about my hometown and seeing the streets I roam and grew up in my whole life! Never thought you would stop here. Terrific stuff. -30C to -40C with windchill is common on most winter days here, and it still isn't enough to deter me and most folks from a Slurpee craving. If you get a chance to ice skate on the Red River at the Forks you should, pond hockey is really fun on the frozen river. Stay warm and keep making great content friend
was walking down henderson with an ice coffee and a joint yesterday. I wonder if he knows the green is legal here. Or the history of 4 20 at the legislative.
I'm a heavy "YT traveler", constantly watching vids and dreaming of visiting every last corner of our Earth. I have to say, this video, which is my first of yours, was outstanding. Informative in every way. Historical info, resident testimonies, "walkthrough" views. Absolutely loved it. Watched the whole thing, while cleaning my kitchen... Another subscriber earned. Thanks! I look forward to browsing around your other posts.
you picked an absolute oddball year to film this. This year has been a treat so far with the winter weather. some perspective for you. I live 1.5hrs north of Winnipeg and I do not pull out my winter jacket until around -20 with the wind. At -45 exposed skin will start to suffer from frostbite in 3-5 minutes.
Yee I wish the river was frozen allready. the vibes at the forks are so diffrent when winter is in full swing. way more fun way more people. Or like a major jets game. that empty down town would be filled
I'm from Regina & somehow keep ending up in Winnipeg. The people here are unbelievably altruistic; I've never experienced another major city where people are so freaking accommodating. If Winnipeg was a person, it would definitely be a 250 lbs. tatted-up dude that's done time in prison... yet somehow doesn't understand why people are scared to be around him in spite of really wanting to be friends with everyone.
This. alot of people say winnipeg is just meen evil people. I've personaly had a man just give me the shoes off his feet when I was a very young adult barely paying rent and eating at the oak table church in osborne to stay alive. a dude noticed my wrecked shoes and without a word just gave me his...have had people notice when im not wearing gloves and attempt to give me theres until i show them i have some.
I lived 2 years in Atqasuk, Alaska.. about 60 miles south of Barrow. I can guarantee it is a lot easier to dress for the cold temperatures than it is to live without sunlight. Super cold… stay inside and only be exposed for short times. No sunlight… wait another 3 months. HUGE difference in discomfort.
Northern Maine is as cold as Winnepeg or most of Alaska, but being on the 47th parallel at least gives days and nights of roughly equal length. The reason we are not called the coldest city is only because we don't have cities here at all.
@@alexeichoquet7822 Exactly. Winnipeg is the coldest city in Canada but its actually the warmest part of Manitoba since the other parts not as many people live in.
Yeah, I live in Winnipeg and the cold really ain’t that big of a problem. If your homeless than obviously it’s pretty bad but otherwise you can throw on a jacket and you’ll be fine
incase you wanted feedback: I think this is your best produced video, the format, information, and stories from people just brought together the perfect chemistry and in my opinion this is my favorite video in the last few months that you've made! I enjoyed it and I hope that eventually you will become viral again but with the new style of content as you deserve it. Even though my attention span is ruined from short form content, you made it engaging enough for me to watch the entire video! I hope that you will make a video on Churchill eventually. Anyways, have a great day!
Thanks so much! Been loving telling these kinds of stories, and i definitely feel like each video gets better as I learn more about how i wanna make them along the way :)
The flashing green traffic signal doesn’t mean “the light is about to change to yellow. “ It is called an “advance green”’and serves the same purpose as a green left arrow. It is telling drivers it is safe to proceed straight ahead, turn left or turn right because opposing traffic is facing a red signal.
except in Vancouver, where it means that the street is pedestrian signalized. Flashing green doesn't exist here (in Calgary) but I wonder how many people visiting Vancouver from Toronto or wherever, see the flashing green and proceed turning left and are killed by oncoming traffic or kill a pedestrian. It's horrible. Should be a standard everywhere in the country.
@@JohnManzo You are right. I drove a bus in Vancouver back in 2002 and as I was driving along Burrard Street during route training, the instructor explained that very thing to me. At the time, I knew it couldn’t be an advance green because it was mid-block and there was nowhere to turn.
I live in Winnipeg and never seen the city so empty. I think it's because people are getting their first dose of winter in November, so their cold tolerances are low.
@@johnmookerji7770haha many of us don’t wanna live here. But for many, including myself. I was born here and everyone I know and love is here. That’s enough to keep me in Winnipeg personally. If I could bring all my loved ones Ik I’d be long gone. And most would prob agree with that sentiment lol
NOT Boston Cumming…..it’s the “Burton Cummings Theatre” as in Burton Cummings lead singer of the Guess Who! One of their many huge hit song was “American woman “, along with “These Eyes”, “Clap for the Wolfman and “Laughing”. Burton Cummings was born and raised in Winnipeg. If you get a chance, you might consider going back and re edit to correct it. I think your audience would like to know . Plus, I think Winnipeggers would be pleased for the correction. Thanks for your video. Awesome!
Thank you so much for showcasing our city. I have to say I really enjoyed the video and I look forward to watching more of your stuff. It looks like you've covered some absolutely fascinating topics.
7:55 that's Inuktitut, because Winnipeg is the closest city that Inuit from Nunavut and Northern Manitoba go to for mainly medical purposes, but also a variety of other reasons too, like family.
I lived in Winnipeg aka Winterpeg in the late eighties (one and half years) attending University of Manitoba; it was really cold, average temperature in those days was about -29 degree celsius. I still remember buying my first items in local Woolworths--parka and mittens. However, the summer was very enjoyable--lots of festivals, and a drive to Lake Winnipeg for fishing.
At +1C, it actually feels colder in Winnipeg. When the temperature drops under freezing, our internal thermostat turns on and we start to warm up. I moved to Italy in 1978, but I can say I felt warmer at Winnipeg's -20C rather than Trieste's +10C with humidity...
I finished my undergraduate studies at the University of Manitoba before returning to tropical Indonesia. People will call me crazy, but I miss it because I've made amazing friends in Winnipeg. ❤❤❤
Winnipegger born and raised, appreciate the video! Winnipeg is a great little city to raise a family and a great home base. Definitely need to do some travelling in the winter though to break it up!
Winnipeg was on our moving list. People at work called me crazy because of the cold. I said id take the cold over QC taxes and b.s french. Finally we agreed on Alberta and will be driving cross country , cant wait to see ol'winni 🍻😁
I grew up in Winnipeg from 1971 to 1989 and have a lot of great memories of my experience there! But I left because I was sick of the cold winters and all the inconveniences that come with it! But as a kid going from grade 4 to grade 12 there it was awesome!!!😎😎😎
Minneapolis, by itself, not including all the other suburbs only have 425000 according to google. That, and other things he said, stuck out for me as well. But overall I liked the video!
Adding to your narrative of downtown, across from City Hall are the Planetarium featuring educational films about outer space on a dome shaped screen and the Centennial Concert Hall where our Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) as well as other touring entertainment groups and individual performers. Winnipeg has an extensive public transportation system of bus routes and a Transit Plus door to door ride service for people unable to access the city's fixed route system. For over 40 years I feel blessed to be able to enjoy Winnipeg during cold winters or hot summers. Thank you for visiting Winnipeg!
I worked as a First Nation dentist about an hour away from Winnipeg on the U.S. side. Winnipeg was a very welcomed urban oasis and the people were wonderful!Thank you Winnipeg!
I've lived in both. Enervating heat in Perth, numbing cold in Winnipeg, flies in Perth, mosquitoes in Winnipeg, smug stuffiness in Perth, vibrant life in Winnipeg. In Perth we felt like we were at the end of the world, in Winnipeg we had a world at our front door.
@johnandmarylouwilde7882 I am not sure when you lived in Perth but it is an amazingly vibrant city nowadays. When I first came to Perth in 1994 it was an insular, conservative backwater but nowadays it is a great, fun city to live in. Perth is the fastest growing capital city in Australia, very cosmopolitan and just a few hours by air from South East Asia. I do one day hope to visit Winnepeg and maybe I can contrast the two cities myself.
Let's not forget the Winnipeg band Bachman Turner Overdrive, BTO. Randy Bachman, the "B" in BTO, was a founding member of the Guess Who. The Guess Who took their name from a publicity stunt by the Winnipeg band Chad Allan and the Expressions, who had a huge international hit single "Shakin' All Over" in 1965. Their record label tried to generate buzz by fooling people into thinking The Expressions were a British Invasion act, possibly "The Who". Radio DJs kept announcing the group as "Guess Who?" forcing the band to officially change their name.
@@DaveGIS123 100! and Chris Burke-Gaffney (Orphan) and Harlequin, who I saw a few months back at the Casino! Also awesome! The whole crowd sang Orphan's "Miracle" which Chris wrote in Assiniboine Park. Man it was awesome!
@jimdylio He lived in Winnipeg from age 11 on and played in bands at community clubs . This is where he became a musician . This is where he went to Kelvin High School .
I co-owned a renovations business in Winnipeg and worked in the construction industry starting at as young as 11 years old. The craziest part about Winnipeg, is due to the extreme cold during the winter followed by extreme heat in the summer, means we need to compensate for architectural movement. This means when installing a floor, you need to use a mailable underlayment material that will move with the architectural movement. Flooring, has to have a space underneath the baseboard where the flooring is cut short to compensate for movement. Failure to do so could result in twisted/uneven floors over time. There are a plethora of other examples as well, I'm sure others could speak to.
My brother does flooring in Southern Alberta. Are you talking about the sub floor? Here we get chinook's. Our temperatures can range from the coldest being low -40 high -35+ in the winter to sometimes 40 above in the summer (or usually 35/36 for a stint) but more accurately it isn't unusual to be around 32⁰ - 35⁰C and we usually hit some days every winter of -35⁰ C. What's different here is the Chinooks. We can easily go from -20 degrees Celsius to + 10 in a day and night. This can wreak havoc on the people who have arthritis, migraines and issues such as that. So, those warm winds present with a "chinook arch" over the mountains. Don't let the _warm winds_ part fool you. They are miserable! The gusts can easily reach 100 klicks per hour. Large snow drifts now melting into little, dirty rivers everywhere. The ice is very dangerous as the freezing comes up out of the pavement and the melting snow creates ice patches. Sand and salt from the downfalls of snow on the intersection's and other spots cause a nightmare situation for cars paint jobs & windshields. Sand, salt and rocks (especially behind trucks or semi's & especially when they pass on the highway!) Nasty, nasty Chinooks. If you asked anyone hear, I believe that they would say they would rather have modest temp rises and dips with snow build ups all winter vs harsh Chinooks! There is a plus side, when the winds subside we can have +10⁰C in January for a few days...gorgeous. Is that enough of a tradeoff? 😂
@@kkittycatkat1990 Only if the barometric pressure and quick weather changes don't bother a person. I have extended family in southern AB who don't mind these extremes.
@@GrannieAnnieMB2024 Hello, GrannieAnnie! Indeed. This is why I specified Arthritis, Migraines and _things_ such as that. I wonder if I know your relatives? I don't expect you to give me details, it's just curiosity. 😊 Chinook Story time 😱 (A couple Chinook stories from my collection) I remember walking home from school in extreme winds & gusts. I lived in a small town so walking 5, 6, 8 blocks home was normal, farm kids got the buses. I recall one day, I think it was one of the worst winds I had ever walked in, my path was straight WEST! It was the end of March or April and there was still a few dirty snow piles at the corners of the roads and here n there but a lot of tiny gravel/sand was still on the roads, especially the corners and up. I think that I felt every pellet hit me straight in the body and face as vehicles whizzed by me. The worst was the actuality that with each step, _leaning, pushing_ forward with all my might, I was only making an ⅛ or _maybe_ a ¼ of what my normal step progress would be. Walking backwards worked well for brief relief. UGH! It was even worse because of my age and the older guy I had a crush on was one of the trucks that whizzed by me. Lol. In my mind, he MUST have seen me, clothes blowing backwards, me barely moving forward, looking like I was pushing an invisible piano uphill and my face all contorted from the wind burn & road pellets...so cute! 😂 Of course he didn't notice me me but I didn't know that at the time! Another Chinook story. I was living in a trailer with tin siding. (SCARY TIMES!) So, when a *MIGHTY* Chinook wind came, it was actually really scary. At night? It was nightmare fuel...only, I was awake, with *NO* chance of going to sleep until dawn when the winds settled. The _sound_ of the unrelenting wind but then the sheer *POWER* of the _GUSTS!_ Man, in a older trailer it just hits different, or maybe more accurately, it tells you just how close you are to the strength of these winds truest abilities. Tree's bending as if a gymnast doing a deep back bend and smashing the roof as she hurled her feet over to land. Branches that I thought had no chance of hitting the siding after a good pruning, were _still_ scraping wildly against the trailer in a fan like motion, back and forth back and forth making kind of the same sound on the tin as the "Psycho" knife shower scene music and the knife scene back and forth, back and forth. lol, but it didn't stop! Not until the wind waned to a normal, decent wind, 40 to 50 km/h. I'm guessing. Now, the nights were so, so very long and terrifying. I was on high alert in the most unnerving way while I was almost petrified trying to lull myself to sleep as the trailer shook with each gust making sure I knew the Big Boss was "IN" and there was going to be no sleeping until it said so. I was seriously scared to death when those winds hit & then the gusts! Oh wow. My issues ran further than most, being in an older trailer and all. Hearing parts of your trailer come partially undone as the slap against the trailer or things like eaves trough's letting you know that's your next job to secure! Many jobs to secure an old tin sided trailer from the Chinook winds. After the nights Chinook horror, the daylight brought relief, as light always does. This one day brought a bit less wind than another tumultuous night. As I said _a bit less._ Then, while watching t.v. as a Chinook was blowing quite wildly "Wait, Is that _my siding_ blowing across the road?!" Me, looking out the window and seeing 2 sheets of my siding caught up on things at the playground. So, luckily my bf showed up and we went to grab the tin before it blew off of the playground equipment never to be seen again, meeting Dorothy on the Yellow Brick road, lol. I ran and grabbed a slab while he was grabbing one further up from me. When he turned & saw me, I heard him yelling "No! Carry...like..." and with that, a gust of wind came through the already powerful wind, picked me up right off the ground (145 lbs) as the tin acted as some sort of airplane or hot air balloon and took me almost 15 feet backwards until I let go of the tin, was pretty much thrown into the swings, and dropped onto the pebbles. Yes, I got hurt but I was mostly embarrassed. He ushered me back to my house while carrying one piece of tin & then went back for the other. My mom and her friends used to play that as a game with cardboard. 😂 I would go around tightening the tin and adding new washers and bolts, but there were some pieces that I really needed a drill for as the screws were just turning, no longer grabbing. Eventually I got 'er done. So, I guess my point is, along with tipped semi's on the highway's, little and large branches littering yards and roads, along with very large branches and whole tree's toppled down onto homes, yards or the roads. Among downed power lines and other such calamities, I suppose it's all fine when your used to it & don't live in a tin trailer! Again, my point is that it does go further than Arthritis, migraines and such awful ailments, the incredulous power of a mad Chinook can affect much more than personal health issues. 🌬🍃🍃🏴☠️💨
@, Yes. Not often it gets below 0°c during the day, here in Midlands England during the winter. Maybe 3 days or more. High of 9°c, low of 2°c in the day this week. 2nd of January. -1°c low, 4°c high at night.
Yes it is cold in Winnipeg and there is lots to do in the winter like cross country skiing, snow mobiling or skating. It is hot in the summers with lots of lakes for water sport activities. It was hilarious when he was asking those 2 girls "do you see people lying in the street frozen to death"? The closest major City is not Milwaukee Wisconsin as he said, it is Minneapolis/St.Paul with a combined Population of over 4 million people. It is 7 hours south. On long weekends many Winnipeggers go south to Grand Forks or Fargo or Minneapolis for a shopping getaway. He kept asking locals "do you feel isolated". What does that mean. It is a large city of 800k people with all services any large Canadian city would have. I am surprised he didn't ask "do you know what the internet is?". He asked if people go to a warm vacation destination in the winter to escape the cold. Of course people do. Pretty much all Canadians (and most Americans) want to head south during the winter to escape winter. It is not exclusively a "Winnipeg" thing. In fact being central we have more convenient options like Florida or Phoenix. Like every major city in Canada there are pros and cons.
I use your content often as a barometer when researching places to move. As a renter I would love to see more renter focused content, most YT vids focus on families buying houses. Anyway this is a great watch & I’m glad to see you back in action.
@ -12 here today and I was just out in shorts and sock shoes, not for long mind you but just taking care of some of the yard stuff. Been unseasonably warm here for what we usually get so it’s actually pretty nice out
those bridges between buildings are called skywalks. and yes downtown is empty on sunday, cause most people just work there and dont live there. so those skywalks you use mostly in the winter like on your lunch break. you quickly can go from your office to get something to eat or just go for a walk without having to put on your heavy coat. very practical 😀
I want to go back so bad. I went in February and it was an experience (which I documented on my channel). That Red River skating is amazing and then the Festival du Voyageur was a welcome reason to celebrate and get out... even if it was well below zero. I'm from the Minneapolis area, but would definitely be open to living in Winnipeg. It seemed peaceful, had all the amenities of a big city, and leaned into its notoriety of being "too cold" - the festivals and celebrations even during the coldest of times really made it feel special and not just a burden.
It is kind of peaceful. Depends where you are. This guy made a massive mistake in the saint bonifice part though, responding to the crazy women who said hello. You are taught from a young age here that you NEVER do that. He's lucky he didn't get worse. She was talking about the norwood and a freind of hers being beaten up there. Thats becouse the norwood is a filthy 3 star trap hotel that gangs do drug deals out of. He came very close to becomeing one of those crime statitics this city is so well known for. Only reason he didn't get more shite is becouse hes like 6 feet tall.
I'll translate what that person said to you so you know what they said, Their friend Cody got beat up at the Norwood (Norwood Hotel) and they went to Polo (Polo park mall) and cody feels like he needs to watch his back now and that person needs to protect Cody. Hope that helped!
There's a Norwegian saying that goes something like "there is no bad weather, only bad clothing." I apply this mindset and extreme cold weather isn't really that bad.
Husband and I were in a gaming guild many years ago that contained mostly Canadians. We met some of them in person at an event in Las Vegas. I got to talking to one of them who let on that he was from Winnipeg. "Winterpeg", I snickered. He was surprised I knew the town's nickname. To this day I don't know where I got that bit of trivia.
This is one of the best visitor-to-a-city videos I've ever seen. You are genuinely interested in the history and culture, and you try to show both the good and the bad. I've travelled a lot, and whenever I get to a city, I always ask to see the poorest part of town, and the most ordinary parts of town before I look at the tourist stuff. There's a hell of a lot of history in Winnipeg. One side of my family was Metis from there, including someone who was part of Louis Riel's "provisional government" and the Rrebellion that ended up with the creation of the Province of Manitoba. . . . The statue of Robert Burns is a normal thing in Canada. Burns is the Scottish national poet, a figure of huge sentimental attachment to all Scots ----- and Canadian history is like totally swamped with Scots. That's why there are curling rinks everywhere, more than a dozen Highland Regiments in the Canadian military, and bagpipes blasting away at every public event. I live in Toronto, and just a few blocks from my apartment there's a huge statue of Robbie Burns, much bigger than the dinky little one you saw. Saying "apparently he was a Scottish poet" is sort of like saying "apparently, Mark Twain was an American writer." . . . The Metis People are a mixture of Cree, Ojibway and Blackfoot ancestors mixed with French Canadians and Highland Scots. Most of the French-speaking population in Saint-Boniface are descended from French-speaking Metis and later migrants from Quebec. But there were also plenty of Scots who founded the city --- the Selkirk Settlers. Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk was a Scottish nobleman who made his lifework the resettlement of poor (and starving) Gaelic-speaking Highlanders in Canada. He founded settlements of Gaelic-speaking Scots in Prince Edward Island and Ontario, but his biggest project was in Rupert's land, where Winnipeg now stands, starting in 1812. The earliest history of Manitoba is essentially a cultural fusion of First Nations, Metis, French Canadians and Highland Scots, and those heritages account for most of the monuments, statues and names you see. . . . The statue of Jon Sigurdsson celebrates Manitoba's Icelandic heritage. Manitoba has the largest ethnic Icelandic population outside of Iceland. Icelanders emigrated to Manitoba in the 1800s and created their own community called New Iceland. Sigurdsson, an Icelandic statesman spearheaded the movement to secure Icelandic Independence from Denmark. An identical statue stands in Reykjavik, Iceland. One of the people you talked to mentioned going to the nearby town of Gimli. People still speak Icelandic in that town, and there are a bunch of novels and stories set there. The film director you mentioned who made the film called "My Winnipeg" is named Guy Maddin, and he also made a film called "Tales of the Gimli Hospital" which was the film that started his career rolling. It's a very strange little film. . . . Nearby there's a statue of the 19th century Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. Ukrainians are one of the largest ethnic groups in the province, as they are in the other two Prairie Provinces. . . . So, lots of history in Winnipeg, and that stuff just scratches the surface. If you want to get a feeling for what life was like in Saint-Boniface in the 1920s, there's a marvelous collection of short stories by Gabrielle Roy called "Rue Deschambeault" [translated into English as "Street of Riches"] It's considered a classic of Canadian literature. Her prose style in French is wonderful and she brings everything from her childhood to life. The street and the house in the stories are still there.
@@elizabethmorton4904 We have had a very good larviciding program going here every spring and pretty much get the jump on the mosquito issue during the summer, except for a few backyards that may have rainwater barrels uncovered, it is quite good even after dark.
I was born in Winterpeg, Manisnowba but lived there only one year. For the past 30 years Ive lived in the warmest part of Canada. Ive visited Winnipeg many times and have good friends there but at almost 70 years old i couldn't do the winters there now. Its a nice city with lots to do. But its too remote, too cold in the winter, and too many mosquitoes!!
The minus 40 to minus 50 is for a few days. Maybe a cold snap for 3-4 days to the arctic jet stream. Winnipeg and praries are populated more than the northern USA is due to the agricultural land. Winnipeg is a logistical hub.
@ the real air temperature at the moment includes windchill. I’ve seen -55 windchill in Saskatchewan in 21st century precisely about 15 years back. Seen a lot minus 40 on and off includes windchill chill. The actual temperature as per weather reports hovers around minus 30-35
Thanks for a documentary on this city. I live in a cold region on Lake Superior's southern shore, but I usually get some consolation by looking on the North American weather map and seeing that Winnepeg is almost always colder than where I am. It could be colder, yes, if I lived there or in the Dakotas. People there, however, remind me that we get much more snow than them. Definately a silver lining of sorts to living in Winnepeg than in Ontonagon, Michigan.
I love your energy and videos. Keep up the great work and come to Toronto soon :) The 2024 RUclips award goes to From Here to There :) Happy New Year!!!!
I was born in Winnipeg! Moved to Seattle in my mid 30s. I don't miss the brutal cold weather. I can tell you that Chris is not the norm. If you got a block heater or a decent bus schedule you're set for shopping or going to work.
Ok yes Milwaukee the city is over 500k and Minneapolis technically is not. But Milwaukees metro population is 1.5 million. While Minneapolis is over double with 3.7 million. I'm just saying it's way bigger.
It took me by surprise, I had to fact-check this! I'm just outside of the Milwaukee city limits. I never realized the in-city population is technically larger than Minneapolis proper.
It was a technically correct comment, but I would say we tend to get a decent amount of people from Winnipeg in the Minneapolis area as we are the closest big metro for sure. Vikings fans, for example. I cannot imagine they'd go to Calgary or Milwaukee instead.
@@jvalley8897 that's why those stats are generally irrelevant. Metropolitan area is the real city population. City proper limits are more political boundaries. For example, if you googled a city like Vancouver you would think no one lives there, until you realize it's a Metropolitan area of many smaller cities. Some cities draw there boundaries around a huge area like Chicago or Dallas others don't but have many densely populated areas surrounding it. Should always go by Metropolitan area.
@@eazydp Yeah, Winnipeggers going on vacation driving to the next largest would automatically say Minneapolis at 7 hours, Calgary is 12, Chicago is 12, I have never in my life in Winnipeg heard of anyone going on vacation to Milwaukee.
My husband retired from the army last year. And when he was in the army we lived in Fairbanks for a spell. And for some unknown ungodly reason that’s where we picked to settle. We love the cold.
54:00 I over saw the rejuvenation of that building from 2010 to 2013. I was originally the Union Bank built in 1903-04 for $430,000! The Royal Bank purchased it in 1914, and it closed in the 80s and sat abandoned for 30 years. It is still to date my favourite project I had the privilege of overseeing.
Winnipeg is a beautiful growing city. Doesn’t get enough recognition as a city it is considering the weather. Every city has its problems, Winnipeg of course isn’t perfect. But for the most part the people are nice and most importantly, we have the best hockey team in the entire league. GO JETS GO!!!
Winnipeg has a similar latitude as Paris, France, but since Winnipeg is so far away from any ocean there is no moderating effect of the temperature. This is also shown in the summers as well, where Winnipeg is the warmest large city in Canada. Just as there are many activities to do in the winter, Winnipeg also embraces the warm summers with patios and summer festivals. There are also some really nice lakeside communities a short drive away.
I lived in Winnipeg for 10 years and I must say I enjoyed my stay there despite the harsh winter. So many good memories. Now I'm backed in the Philippines for good. Thanks for this video. I really enjoyed watching this .
The last 10 years have been a heat wave in Winnipeg. Before 2000 , it was colder. I remember in 1980 we had almost 2 months straight of -30 temp (not wind chill). The winters now are about 2 months shorter than they used to be. I used to work outside on the railway , so I remember how cold it was and you have to wear a snow suit or you would freeze. When I was a kid , I remember snow on the ground not melted yet in May. It usually started snowing and accumulating around Nov 1 but some years Oct 15 and Halloween was snowy.
Great job!! As a born and raised Winnipeger, you taught me a few things about our city! You did visit during one of the least pretty times of the year. A fresh snowfall would look better and, of course, a summer visit when the trees are full green and the weather is the opposite of winter (we have one of the hottest summers around) would have shown you some better times. You might also go for a drive outside of Winnipeg because nature is not far away, given our 100,000 lakes. That's the icing on the cake for Winnipegers, as it's a short drive to some great camping, cottages, beaches, fishing, water sports, etc etc etc..
Thanks for the comment! Yeah the idea was to visit with some snow on the ground (I had heard usually by mid-November there is snow), but it's been an unusually warm winter I guess!
As someone who is born and raise Winnipeg, you did a great job of showing the city did your research. You pretty much nailed a lot of that stuff that you commented on as far as the city being dead downtown you’re right it’s because nothing for work is needed only Monday to Friday would be ridiculous busy maybe Saturdays as welland the downtown area isn’t the nicest unless you live there so no one wants to go to that area, I never go down there. I never walked down there, but overall I’m impressed by your research and so far you’re the best person I’ve ever seen to do a video about Winnipeg.
I'd like to send my friends from Portland to Winnipeg when they complain about the cold! Normal winter highs are in the 50s, lows are normally above freezing, and snowfall averages about 4 inches a year.
Also, the Intrepid (Sir William Stephenson) was from Winnipeg. There’s a statue of him behind the legislative building. He was a WWII soldier, pilot, and spymaster. He’s the person the James Bond character was based on.
Been a subscriber since 2020 and I'm really enjoying your new format! The countdowns/lists were fun, but got a bit repetitive. It's really cool to see you switch it up and show your passion for these in-depth looks into cities that don't get much coverage otherwise.
I'm a Winnipegger and I enjoyed this video. It's fun hearing an outsider's impression of your home town. Winnipeg's a funny place and you either love it or hate it. Personally I love it. We may be isolated, and it's cold in winter, and its hot in summer, and the land is as flat as a pool table, but I love it. Just a couple of points. @42:35, the statue of Robbie Burns on the Legislature grounds is in honour of Scotland's national poet, and comemmorates the very large Scottish population of Winnipeg. Some of the first settlers in Winnipeg were refugees from Scotland, the Selkirk Settlers, who moved to Canada following the Highland Clearances. Also the statue on the dome of the Manitoba Legislature is the "Golden Boy". It is not a "little" statue --- the thing is over 17' tall.
At the end of a family trip to Chicago in 2012, we decided to drive back to Winnipeg in a single day. It took about 16 hours to get from the corner of Elmhurst and Dempster in Mt. Prospect (had to clean the Jewel/Osco out of their entire stash of Diet Cherry Pepsi) to Pembina at the Perimeter.
I visited Winnipeg and stayed in that Radisson for "spring break" trip from Minneapolis in 2005? The drinking age is lower that MN, so that was our motivator. It was actually a blast, fun times. Cool to see the city again. Crazy how it looks like a sibling of Minneapolis, or maybe more accurately a giant version of Duluth, Minnesota. Fun to see some of the things I missed 20 years ago. I'd like to go again some day in the summer and check out a Blue Bombers game!
The 'Peg looks a lot like a mid-western American city, except Winnipeg isn't broken-up by an Interstate highway. Winnipegers prefer to drive around their city, but we can still walk across the street.
@@DaveGIS123 that's a good point, I remember noticing that. I wish Minneapolis had made the same decision instead of dissecting the city and destroying so many neighborhoods.
I checked out Duluth, MN on Google Maps to see if I agree with you about similarity to Winnipeg. I can see why you get that impression due to how both cities have lots of historical brick buildings despite being small cities. However, I would say that Hamilton, Ontario, is even more similar to Duluth, MN. Not only does it have similar buildings in downtown, it is on the edge of a Great Lake, has a lift bridge and highway going over the lake, etc.
@3:44:- the flashing green lights are an "advanced green" which means you can either proceed straight ahead or make a left turn without hesitation because the opposing traffic stream still has a red light.
'Apparently he was a Scottish Poet'😆. There are a few cities in the world that have statues of Robert Burns despite him having no connection with them..for example Melbourne, Australia
I'm from LA (San Fernando Valley) born and raised and i got stuck in Winnipeg one afternoon in January due to a mechanical issue on a private jet. I did my metric conversion and it was -34 F and it seemed totally insane. We rented a car just to drive around and I couldn't believe there were people riding bikes and jogging and skating. My girlfriend said "My God!" There was kind of a beauty in it though and the people were as friendly as it could get. And i couldn't believe that they get summers almost as hot as us as i later found out..
I have to admit that exchange district with the old buildings is very nice and has huge potential. If those buildings were in Calgary or Vancouver investors would be tripping backwards over them
theres actualy pritty high value condos in some of those old buildings. they are super super cushy on the inside. You just don't see it from the outside. I was looking for appartments years ago and looked at many of them there. ONe of them was a one bedroom, that was a converted bank vault complete with huge vault door
Fantastic video. If I wanted to show someone where I live this would be the best I’ve seen. There are a lot of great jobs in Winnipeg and with reasonable housing costs. I have worked for a manufacturing company next to the mint for 25 years. The community is extremely friendly and open where people will stop and talk to you. We always joke about how everyone knows someone you know. I would highly recommend seeing the city in early winter when the snow is pretty. February has a fantastic historic Festival du Voyageur. Summer nights in the outdoor patio season when the sun sets near 10PM. Liked and subscribed! PS Most of the poorer areas have been stagnant since the 1980’s as urban sprawl has pulled money into the suburbs. The downtown spent a long time without development which is why so many buildings became vacant and turned into parking lots. It’s also why on a cold Sunday the downtown is very quiet with no traffic. Things have been improving recently as many new high rise buildings have rejuvenated areas of downtown and it has been slowly improving.
One thing we love to do in Winnipeg is the “Social”. That is a fundraising event for young couples saving for a wedding or maybe a hockey team going on an out-of-town tournament. You throw a huge party in a community centre gym or hall. We sell entrance tickets, alcohol, and silent auction tickets (silent auction is just a prize draw that you buy tickets for). And of course a “big bottle of perfume” tickets. That’s a code word for a Texas Mickey which is a 3L or 101oz bottle of alcohol. It used to be illegal but everyone did it anyways so they decided to make it legal, that’s why the code name. We say we are going to support our friends but it’s really an excuse to go out for a party. You offer a late lunch which is stuff to make sandwiches. Kub Rye bread is a staple at all socials.
yeee man thats a huge thing I did in my late teenage years. The beer is cheep as well most of the time. its also super local and community focused usely so you know everyone. last one I went too was Melrose community center in east K near the ymca many years ago though.
@42:50:- Robbie Burns was a Scottish poet and much beloved by the Scottish folks who settled this area circa 1814:- for a time Lord Selkirk (a Scot), was the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company which had a major depot here and he sojourned here and organized the first organized settlement of British settlers into this region to secure it against American expansionism. He was also the commander of the De Meuron Regiment, a Swiss mercenary regiment in British service which also included a lot of Polish soldiers who had served in Napoleon's armies but were taken POW by the British in Spanish battles but were pardoned on condition that the joined the De Meurons who were then sent by Lord Selkirk to the "Red River Settlement" to guard it.
The joke about Winnipeg is about the night being long because it's dull and nothing to do. I always heard the commentators of the Montreal Canadiens and Québec Nordiques said about that city. Even a singer from Québec sang about that in a hit song in the 70's ! Maybe it's different in 2024...2025 ! I hope so ! ;-)
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Colorado has a record of -61f
Yes, it's not a great city for walking, which is why the streets are empty. The people are up above you on those bridges.
The lieutenant-governor (pronounced _lef te nunt_ ) is a vice-regal position, representing HM King in each province, and she's not part of the government, so she doesn't work in the Legislative Assembly.
Gimli, Manitoba has the largest Icelandic population outside Iceland.
Robbie Burns never lived in Winnipeg, but a large percentage of Canada's English-speaking heritage comes from Scotland, rather than England. There's a statue of Burns in Vancouver's Stanley Park as well.
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I lived in Winnipeg for 20+ years. We saw the cold as a fact of life and found ways to work and play around it. It was no big deal. The beautiful, albeit short, Winnipeg summers made Winnipeg a beautiful place. I miss it although I've lived all over the USA and France and Germany.
Would love to go back in Summer!
@@FromHeretoThere Summers are the COMPLETE OPPOSITE....+30's in the summers is not unusual at all ! And it's soo green. Over 3 million trees. Has to be seen to believed, to see the difference....
I found Halifax to be a lovely place. But I appreciate it so much because I was born and raised in murder capital of Canada....
@@CensorMeNot-dv5lg Admit it though...the supposed most dangerous city in Canada, is safer than than virtually any city in the States -it's all relative.
Minneapolis is no picnic in the winter. I thought the skyline needed two or three more highrises downtown to compete with Edmonton.
The flashing green does NOT mean it's about to turn orange. It means one has the right of way to turn left. The pedestrian bridges aren't just to protect people from extreme cold in winter but also from extreme heat in summer. This video is focusing on the cold in Winnipeg but it's really a city of temperature extremes, both hot and cold.
Are the mosquitoes a well kept secret?
Winnipeg's average summer temperatures don't look extreme to me. Is it a more occasional thing?
@@Dankfortit gets hot. Hot as Las Vegas some days, like 35C+
I haven’t driven in Canada in 20+ years, but I recall that the flashing green lights mean different things in different cities. I recall that in Toronto the flashing green light means a left turn was allowed, while in Vancouver it meant the light was about to turn yellow.
extreme heat in summer.
2 days a year it gets over 30C
I was driving back from Alberta to Winnipeg a couple of years back and somewhere in SK someone was broken down on the side of the road. I stopped to see if I could help him out. Dude was an immigrant and was laughing as I backed up toward him. I got out of my truck and he says “it’s always the ones from Manitoba that help 😁”. We chatted for a bit about where he was from and so on, it was cool.
Not sure if it’s true that it’s always the Manitobans, but, it was on that cold day and that’s enough for me.
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love your video, I just moved to Winnipeg from southern China, unexpectedly soon adapted to the cold. People here are friendly and nice and it is a culturally diverse city.
Glad you enjoyed and welcome to Winnipeg!
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From 13:24 to 40:04 this gentleman is a true Canadian who makes you feel
comfortable and welcomed from the moment you start talking to him, long
may he and everyone else like him live, hopefully right here in this city
that I love so dearly, Winnipeg.
Loved talking with him!
You filmed on the most dreary gross day of the year, and on an empty Sunday morning, in an urban sprawl city, when most people are in the suburbs or having brunch also in the suburbs.
Winnipeg is located an hour from two beautiful lakes, with long beaches and cottage country. In the summer, this place is unrecognizable from the footage in this video. C'mon back in july ☀️
or when the river actualy freezes man the vibes be diffrent at the forks when the familys are out skateing
As a Canadian I really appreciated this video. I’ve never been to Winnipeg. The older gentleman in the park was a delight. FYI: the building bridges you refer to are called pedways. Thank you for this.
Thanks! Yes, agreed, loved chatting with him!
In Winnipeg we call them "skywalks"!
There are many skyways in Mpls too.
Nope, Skywalks it is
Trust me. Nobody here calls them "Pedways". You can not pedal a bike in them. You'd be kicked out by security. They are skywalks and we can walk all over downtown with shirt sleeves in the middle of winter. You park your car in a parking garage, which we call "Parkades" and you ditch your parka, and shop all over down town.
Having attended the University of Manitoba, I thoroughly enjoyed your tour through this fine city showing me many changes. Thank you. I worked as a Grey Line tour guide in the summers. Your commentary and details were comprehensive. Winnipeg was the most friendly place I have ever lived (having lived internationally as well as in Canada]. Well done. Professor-Elizabeth
Thanks a ton! Definitely felt the hospitality in Winnipeg! Some of the nicest people I've ever met!
I am an immigrant and have lived in Winnipeg for 11 years. It is very cold in the winter but the summers are great. Sometimes hot and the beautiful lake and camping are fantastic. So I enjoy summer to the fullest
why would you choose winnipeg out of all the other candian cities?
Cheaper housing.
@@corybjarnason218housing is not the reason why .... It's the amount of claim that are passed.. other provinces have a higher denial rate .. this is why they work in Manitoba for X amount of time then end up moving after ... My uncle hired a home care worker and after 5 years she left for Edmonton after she gained citizenship.. because Alberta denied her application but Manitoba gave he the chance...
@RaytKim-ov1lp Have you been to T.O. lately? It looks like Ontario isn't denying anybody.
I think it's not where you live that matters, but how i live .I came here first because my friend in Winnipeg was doing business here and he recommended me. He left Winnipeg but I am doing better here than my friend.
Thank you for making this fascinating video. The 1 hour 14 minutes just flew by. We thoroughly enjoyed our vicarious visit to Winnipeg with you. We've always been fascinated by cold cities, and the people who live there. Winnipeg has been a particular object of curiosity for us, after having once watched a surreal, yet engrossing, independent film called "My Winnipeg." We enjoyed your video far more than that movie. Keep up the good work, and God bless all the fine and very hearty citizens of Winnipeg and all of Manitoba. Look forward to your next adventure. We'll be watching.
Thanks for sharing your experiences in Winnipeg! It really speaks to human resilience that so many people choose to live in such a frigid climate, finding beauty and warmth in their community.
To be fair, it is really hard to save up enough money to move to a place that's far away and more expensive 😅. I've met a lot of people who felt trapped here as much as anything, myself included when I was younger and moved to Vancouver from Winnipeg.
Born, raised, and current Winnipegger here, and frequent viewer of your channel. I cant believe Im seeing this channel make a video about my hometown and seeing the streets I roam and grew up in my whole life! Never thought you would stop here. Terrific stuff. -30C to -40C with windchill is common on most winter days here, and it still isn't enough to deter me and most folks from a Slurpee craving. If you get a chance to ice skate on the Red River at the Forks you should, pond hockey is really fun on the frozen river.
Stay warm and keep making great content friend
Winnipeg is a dump
@Various-Hilarious who cares, didnt ask
was walking down henderson with an ice coffee and a joint yesterday. I wonder if he knows the green is legal here. Or the history of 4 20 at the legislative.
@@Various-Hilariouskeep makin brainrot content lil bro
I'm a heavy "YT traveler", constantly watching vids and dreaming of visiting every last corner of our Earth.
I have to say, this video, which is my first of yours, was outstanding.
Informative in every way.
Historical info, resident testimonies, "walkthrough" views.
Absolutely loved it.
Watched the whole thing, while cleaning my kitchen...
Another subscriber earned.
Thanks!
I look forward to browsing around your other posts.
Thanks so much! Got a ton more videos like it coming!
you picked an absolute oddball year to film this. This year has been a treat so far with the winter weather.
some perspective for you. I live 1.5hrs north of Winnipeg and I do not pull out my winter jacket until around -20 with the wind. At -45 exposed skin will start to suffer from frostbite in 3-5 minutes.
Yee I wish the river was frozen allready. the vibes at the forks are so diffrent when winter is in full swing. way more fun way more people. Or like a major jets game. that empty down town would be filled
I'm from Regina & somehow keep ending up in Winnipeg. The people here are unbelievably altruistic; I've never experienced another major city where people are so freaking accommodating.
If Winnipeg was a person, it would definitely be a 250 lbs. tatted-up dude that's done time in prison... yet somehow doesn't understand why people are scared to be around him in spite of really wanting to be friends with everyone.
This. alot of people say winnipeg is just meen evil people. I've personaly had a man just give me the shoes off his feet when I was a very young adult barely paying rent and eating at the oak table church in osborne to stay alive. a dude noticed my wrecked shoes and without a word just gave me his...have had people notice when im not wearing gloves and attempt to give me theres until i show them i have some.
I lived 2 years in Atqasuk, Alaska.. about 60 miles south of Barrow. I can guarantee it is a lot easier to dress for the cold temperatures than it is to live without sunlight. Super cold… stay inside and only be exposed for short times. No sunlight… wait another 3 months. HUGE difference in discomfort.
Wow that's fascinating! What were you doing up there? Would love to visit some of the more remote communities in Alaska. Have any suggestions?
Northern Maine is as cold as Winnepeg or most of Alaska, but being on the 47th parallel at least gives days and nights of roughly equal length. The reason we are not called the coldest city is only because we don't have cities here at all.
@@alexeichoquet7822 Exactly. Winnipeg is the coldest city in Canada but its actually the warmest part of Manitoba since the other parts not as many people live in.
Yeah, I live in Winnipeg and the cold really ain’t that big of a problem. If your homeless than obviously it’s pretty bad but otherwise you can throw on a jacket and you’ll be fine
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The flashing green traffic signal doesn’t mean “the light is about to change to yellow. “
It is called an “advance green”’and serves the same purpose as a green left arrow. It is telling drivers it is safe to proceed straight ahead, turn left or turn right because opposing traffic is facing a red signal.
Oh that makes a lot of sense! Thanks for clarifying!
except in Vancouver, where it means that the street is pedestrian signalized. Flashing green doesn't exist here (in Calgary) but I wonder how many people visiting Vancouver from Toronto or wherever, see the flashing green and proceed turning left and are killed by oncoming traffic or kill a pedestrian. It's horrible. Should be a standard everywhere in the country.
Good to know. I'm from a border state and was mega confused in Ontario
@@JohnManzowelcome to canada mix standard woke people and Trudeau dictatorship government invaders taking over. Bye bye canada 😊
@@JohnManzo You are right. I drove a bus in Vancouver back in 2002 and as I was driving along Burrard Street during route training, the instructor explained that very thing to me.
At the time, I knew it couldn’t be an advance green because it was mid-block and there was nowhere to turn.
I live in Winnipeg and never seen the city so empty. I think it's because people are getting their first dose of winter in November, so their cold tolerances are low.
do you have a lot of indians there ?
I was just about to say, it looks like a ghost town.
This is silent hill, Winnipeg xD
It is beyond me why anybody wants to live in such an uninhabitable place!
@@johnmookerji7770haha many of us don’t wanna live here. But for many, including myself. I was born here and everyone I know and love is here. That’s enough to keep me in Winnipeg personally. If I could bring all my loved ones Ik I’d be long gone. And most would prob agree with that sentiment lol
Fantastic job of showcasing Winnipeg. A great city to live, work and play in despite the cold winters. The summers are sublime.
BURTON Cummings Theatre. Not "Boston." Lead singer of The Guess Who, Canadian icon and Winnipeg native.
Almost as good as Chad Allen, the original. This should bring on the comments eh?
And horrible human being.
NOT Boston Cumming…..it’s the “Burton Cummings Theatre” as in Burton Cummings lead singer of the Guess Who! One of their many huge hit song was “American woman “, along with “These Eyes”, “Clap for the Wolfman and “Laughing”. Burton Cummings was born and raised in Winnipeg. If you get a chance, you might consider going back and re edit to correct it. I think your audience would like to know . Plus, I think Winnipeggers would be pleased for the correction.
Thanks for your video. Awesome!
Thank you so much for showcasing our city. I have to say I really enjoyed the video and I look forward to watching more of your stuff. It looks like you've covered some absolutely fascinating topics.
Visited Winnipeg back in September and was impressed! The Fort Garry Hotel was gorgeous and the Forks Market was very nice.
7:55 that's Inuktitut, because Winnipeg is the closest city that Inuit from Nunavut and Northern Manitoba go to for mainly medical purposes, but also a variety of other reasons too, like family.
It's actually Cree. Inuktitut adopted the Cree syllabic, which is why they look so similar.
I lived in Winnipeg aka Winterpeg in the late eighties (one and half years) attending University of Manitoba; it was really cold, average temperature in those days was about -29 degree celsius. I still remember buying my first items in local Woolworths--parka and mittens. However, the summer was very enjoyable--lots of festivals, and a drive to Lake Winnipeg for fishing.
At +1C, it actually feels colder in Winnipeg. When the temperature drops under freezing, our internal thermostat turns on and we start to warm up. I moved to Italy in 1978, but I can say I felt warmer at Winnipeg's -20C rather than Trieste's +10C with humidity...
I finished my undergraduate studies at the University of Manitoba before returning to tropical Indonesia. People will call me crazy, but I miss it because I've made amazing friends in Winnipeg. ❤❤❤
Any plans of coming back here after when you return to indonesia?
Winnipegger born and raised, appreciate the video! Winnipeg is a great little city to raise a family and a great home base. Definitely need to do some travelling in the winter though to break it up!
Winnipeg was on our moving list. People at work called me crazy because of the cold.
I said id take the cold over QC taxes and b.s french.
Finally we agreed on Alberta and will be driving cross country , cant wait to see ol'winni 🍻😁
I grew up in Winnipeg from 1971 to 1989 and have a lot of great memories of my experience there! But I left because I was sick of the cold winters and all the inconveniences that come with it! But as a kid going from grade 4 to grade 12 there it was awesome!!!😎😎😎
When you mentioned Milwaukee as the next closest over 500K? What about Minneapolis St Paul?
Minneapolis, by itself, not including all the other suburbs only have 425000 according to google. That, and other things he said, stuck out for me as well. But overall I liked the video!
I will add Winnipeg to my travel bucket list. Thanks for showcasing and the little history.
Was a fascinating city!
Good idea...summer is much much different and well worth it.
Adding to your narrative of downtown, across from City Hall are the Planetarium featuring educational films about outer space on a dome shaped screen and the Centennial Concert Hall where our Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) as well as other touring entertainment groups and individual performers. Winnipeg has an extensive public transportation system of bus routes and a Transit Plus door to door ride service for people unable to access the city's fixed route system. For over 40 years I feel blessed to be able to enjoy Winnipeg during cold winters or hot summers. Thank you for visiting Winnipeg!
I worked as a First Nation dentist about an hour away from Winnipeg on the U.S. side. Winnipeg was a very welcomed urban oasis and the people were wonderful!Thank you Winnipeg!
Greetings from Perth, Western Australia. Winnipeg is much, much, much colder than my city but both our cities are blissfully isolated.
I've lived in both. Enervating heat in Perth, numbing cold in Winnipeg, flies in Perth, mosquitoes in Winnipeg, smug stuffiness in Perth, vibrant life in Winnipeg. In Perth we felt like we were at the end of the world, in Winnipeg we had a world at our front door.
@johnandmarylouwilde7882 I am not sure when you lived in Perth but it is an amazingly vibrant city nowadays. When I first came to Perth in 1994 it was an insular, conservative backwater but nowadays it is a great, fun city to live in. Perth is the fastest growing capital city in Australia, very cosmopolitan and just a few hours by air from South East Asia.
I do one day hope to visit Winnepeg and maybe I can contrast the two cities myself.
53:17 It's the Burton Cummings Theater, named after the front man of "Guess Who" band. Burton and the band grew up in Winnipeg, so did Neil Young btw
Let's not forget the Winnipeg band Bachman Turner Overdrive, BTO. Randy Bachman, the "B" in BTO, was a founding member of the Guess Who.
The Guess Who took their name from a publicity stunt by the Winnipeg band Chad Allan and the Expressions, who had a huge international hit single "Shakin' All Over" in 1965. Their record label tried to generate buzz by fooling people into thinking The Expressions were a British Invasion act, possibly "The Who". Radio DJs kept announcing the group as "Guess Who?" forcing the band to officially change their name.
@@DaveGIS123 100! and Chris Burke-Gaffney (Orphan) and Harlequin, who I saw a few months back at the Casino! Also awesome! The whole crowd sang Orphan's "Miracle" which Chris wrote in Assiniboine Park. Man it was awesome!
Peterborough and Toronto also swear that Neil Young is their native son.
@jimdylio He lived in Winnipeg from age 11 on and played in bands at community clubs . This is where he became a musician . This is where he went to Kelvin High School .
Thanks for making a longer video about Winnipeg.
Glad you enjoyed!
I co-owned a renovations business in Winnipeg and worked in the construction industry starting at as young as 11 years old.
The craziest part about Winnipeg, is due to the extreme cold during the winter followed by extreme heat in the summer, means we need to compensate for architectural movement.
This means when installing a floor, you need to use a mailable underlayment material that will move with the architectural movement.
Flooring, has to have a space underneath the baseboard where the flooring is cut short to compensate for movement. Failure to do so could result in twisted/uneven floors over time.
There are a plethora of other examples as well, I'm sure others could speak to.
My brother does flooring in Southern Alberta. Are
you talking about the sub floor?
Here we get chinook's. Our temperatures can range from the coldest being low -40 high -35+ in the winter to sometimes 40 above in the summer (or usually 35/36 for a stint) but more accurately it isn't unusual to be around 32⁰ - 35⁰C and we usually hit some days every winter of -35⁰ C.
What's different here is the Chinooks. We can easily go from -20 degrees Celsius to + 10 in a day and night. This can wreak havoc on the people who have arthritis, migraines and issues such as that. So, those warm winds present with a "chinook arch" over the mountains.
Don't let the _warm winds_ part fool you. They are miserable! The gusts can easily reach 100 klicks per hour. Large snow drifts now melting into little, dirty rivers everywhere. The ice is very dangerous as the freezing comes up out of the pavement and the melting snow creates ice patches.
Sand and salt from the downfalls of snow on the intersection's and other spots cause a nightmare situation for cars paint jobs & windshields. Sand, salt and rocks (especially behind trucks or semi's & especially when they pass on the highway!) Nasty, nasty Chinooks.
If you asked anyone hear, I believe that they would say they would rather have modest temp rises and dips with snow build ups all winter vs harsh Chinooks! There is a plus side, when the winds subside we can have +10⁰C in January for a few days...gorgeous.
Is that enough of a tradeoff? 😂
@@kkittycatkat1990 Only if the barometric pressure and quick weather changes don't bother a person. I have extended family in southern AB who don't mind these extremes.
@@GrannieAnnieMB2024 Hello, GrannieAnnie! Indeed. This is why I specified Arthritis, Migraines and _things_ such as that.
I wonder if I know your relatives? I don't expect you to give me details, it's just curiosity. 😊
Chinook Story time 😱
(A couple Chinook stories from my collection)
I remember walking home from school in extreme winds & gusts. I lived in a small town so walking 5, 6, 8 blocks home was normal, farm kids got the buses. I recall one day, I think it was one of the worst winds I had ever walked in, my path was straight WEST! It was the end of March or April and there was still a few dirty snow piles at the corners of the roads and here n there but a lot of tiny gravel/sand was still on the roads, especially the corners and up. I think that I felt every pellet hit me straight in the body and face as vehicles whizzed by me.
The worst was the actuality that with each step, _leaning, pushing_ forward with all my might, I was only making an ⅛ or _maybe_ a ¼ of what my normal step progress would be. Walking backwards worked well for brief relief.
UGH! It was even worse because of my age and the older guy I had a crush on was one of the trucks that whizzed by me. Lol. In my mind, he MUST have seen me, clothes blowing backwards, me barely moving forward, looking like I was pushing an invisible piano uphill and my face all contorted from the wind burn & road pellets...so cute! 😂 Of course he didn't notice me me but I didn't know that at the time!
Another Chinook story. I was living in a trailer with tin siding. (SCARY TIMES!) So, when a *MIGHTY* Chinook wind came, it was actually really scary. At night? It was nightmare fuel...only, I was awake, with *NO* chance of going to sleep until dawn when the winds settled. The _sound_ of the unrelenting wind but then the sheer *POWER* of the _GUSTS!_ Man, in a older trailer it just hits different, or maybe more accurately, it tells you just how close you are to the strength of these winds truest abilities. Tree's bending as if a gymnast doing a deep back bend and smashing the roof as she hurled her feet over to land. Branches that I thought had no chance of hitting the siding after a good pruning, were _still_ scraping wildly against the trailer in a fan like motion, back and forth back and forth making kind of the same sound on the tin as the "Psycho" knife shower scene music and the knife scene back and forth, back and forth. lol, but it didn't stop! Not until the wind waned to a normal, decent wind, 40 to 50 km/h. I'm guessing.
Now, the nights were so, so very long and terrifying. I was on high alert in the most unnerving way while I was almost petrified trying to lull myself to sleep as the trailer shook with each gust making sure I knew the Big Boss was "IN" and there was going to be no sleeping until it said so.
I was seriously scared to death when those winds hit & then the gusts! Oh wow.
My issues ran further than most, being in an older trailer and all.
Hearing parts of your trailer come partially undone as the slap against the trailer or things like eaves trough's letting you know that's your next job to secure! Many jobs to secure an old tin sided trailer from the Chinook winds.
After the nights Chinook horror, the daylight brought relief, as light always does. This one day brought a bit less wind than another tumultuous night. As I said _a bit less._
Then, while watching t.v. as a Chinook was blowing quite wildly "Wait, Is that _my siding_ blowing across the road?!" Me, looking out the window and seeing 2 sheets of my siding caught up on things at the playground.
So, luckily my bf showed up and we went to grab the tin before it blew off of the playground equipment never to be seen again, meeting Dorothy on the Yellow Brick road, lol.
I ran and grabbed a slab while he was grabbing one further up from me. When he turned & saw me, I heard him yelling "No! Carry...like..." and with that, a gust of wind came through the already powerful wind, picked me up right off the ground (145 lbs) as the tin acted as some sort of airplane or hot air balloon and took me almost 15 feet backwards until I let go of the tin, was pretty much thrown into the swings, and dropped onto the pebbles.
Yes, I got hurt but I was mostly embarrassed. He ushered me back to my house while carrying one piece of tin & then went back for the other.
My mom and her friends used to play that as a game with cardboard. 😂
I would go around tightening the tin and adding new washers and bolts, but there were some pieces that I really needed a drill for as the screws were just turning, no longer grabbing. Eventually I got 'er done.
So, I guess my point is, along with tipped semi's on the highway's, little and large branches littering yards and roads, along with very large branches and whole tree's toppled down onto homes, yards or the roads. Among downed power lines and other such calamities, I suppose it's all fine when your used to it & don't live in a tin trailer! Again, my point is that it does go further than Arthritis, migraines and such awful ailments, the incredulous power of a mad Chinook can affect much more than personal health issues.
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lol. Him talking about the dark winters of Winnipeg. Winnipeg is the same degrees north as Paris. But you never hear about Paris dark winters.
I agree, I lived in Munich for a winter and it was much worse than Minneapolis (where I live now) in terms of dark winters. And extremely cloudy.
Yes, almost all of Europe gets extremely dark in the winter, but the gulf stream makes temperatures not too too cold
@, Yes. Not often it gets below 0°c during the day, here in Midlands England during the winter.
Maybe 3 days or more.
High of 9°c, low of 2°c in the day this week. 2nd of January.
-1°c low, 4°c high at night.
@@lewisjames4268 -26C as of 9:20 on Saturday night in early Jan in Winterpeg ... but it is only for a short while ...
Looks like that person running for the bus missed the bus 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe he doesn’t know the government provides more than one bus.
@TheBadCivilServant Bus driver was like: "NOT TODAY MAN!!!" 😂
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I’ve only endured -44C before and it was cold.
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Yes it is cold in Winnipeg and there is lots to do in the winter like cross country skiing, snow mobiling or skating. It is hot in the summers with lots of lakes for water sport activities. It was hilarious when he was asking those 2 girls "do you see people lying in the street frozen to death"?
The closest major City is not Milwaukee Wisconsin as he said, it is Minneapolis/St.Paul with a combined Population of over 4 million people. It is 7 hours south. On long weekends many Winnipeggers go south to Grand Forks or Fargo or Minneapolis for a shopping getaway.
He kept asking locals "do you feel isolated". What does that mean. It is a large city of 800k people with all services any large Canadian city would have. I am surprised he didn't ask "do you know what the internet is?".
He asked if people go to a warm vacation destination in the winter to escape the cold. Of course people do. Pretty much all Canadians (and most Americans) want to head south during the winter to escape winter. It is not exclusively a "Winnipeg" thing. In fact being central we have more convenient options like Florida or Phoenix.
Like every major city in Canada there are pros and cons.
I use your content often as a barometer when researching places to move. As a renter I would love to see more renter focused content, most YT vids focus on families buying houses. Anyway this is a great watch & I’m glad to see you back in action.
Thanks a ton!
Grocery prices in Winnipeg are insane.
Then you don't want to move here. 1.1% vacancy rate
@@Dr.Claw_M.A.D. the old guy earlyer in the video mentioned that.
Dude, this video is great. Incredibly informative and candid. Love it. Great stuff. Thank you.
Thanks a ton Aaron!
Coldest I’ve ever felt is -14 in Poland. It hurt to breathe through your nose! Thank you for sharing 😊
Coldest I’ve seen with windchill is -55c ish. If you can learn to handle -14 you can learn to handle colder, layer and dress for it
coldest I've been was -24 in the Alps
@ -12 here today and I was just out in shorts and sock shoes, not for long mind you but just taking care of some of the yard stuff. Been unseasonably warm here for what we usually get so it’s actually pretty nice out
@@Spartan_1 wow! May I ask where you were in the world to experience that? That must’ve been biting!
@@marcodipietro8835 how long were you out in it? 🥶
those bridges between buildings are called skywalks. and yes downtown is empty on sunday, cause most people just work there and dont live there. so those skywalks you use mostly in the winter like on your lunch break. you quickly can go from your office to get something to eat or just go for a walk without having to put on your heavy coat. very practical 😀
I once almost got an appartment across from the the skywalk. did the math and like wouldn't have had to touch the street for more than like 5 minutes.
When the green light is flashing it means the other side has red light so you can turn left and have priority. Not because it will turn yellow.
Thanks for the info!
@@FromHeretoThereI thought the same
Neil Young and the Crash Test Dummies (the "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" band) are from Winnipeg.
Great job showcasing Winnipeg.❤
I want to go back so bad. I went in February and it was an experience (which I documented on my channel). That Red River skating is amazing and then the Festival du Voyageur was a welcome reason to celebrate and get out... even if it was well below zero. I'm from the Minneapolis area, but would definitely be open to living in Winnipeg. It seemed peaceful, had all the amenities of a big city, and leaned into its notoriety of being "too cold" - the festivals and celebrations even during the coldest of times really made it feel special and not just a burden.
It is kind of peaceful. Depends where you are. This guy made a massive mistake in the saint bonifice part though, responding to the crazy women who said hello. You are taught from a young age here that you NEVER do that. He's lucky he didn't get worse. She was talking about the norwood and a freind of hers being beaten up there. Thats becouse the norwood is a filthy 3 star trap hotel that gangs do drug deals out of. He came very close to becomeing one of those crime statitics this city is so well known for. Only reason he didn't get more shite is becouse hes like 6 feet tall.
@@MauseDays Wow.
28:36 ive had the privilage of singing under that dome before. Its truely magical how the resonance just hangs there for a few seconds.
I'll translate what that person said to you so you know what they said, Their friend Cody got beat up at the Norwood (Norwood Hotel) and they went to Polo (Polo park mall) and cody feels like he needs to watch his back now and that person needs to protect Cody. Hope that helped!
Well, only in Winnipeg will you get someone you don't know to tell you their life's story in a few words ...
There's a Norwegian saying that goes something like "there is no bad weather, only bad clothing." I apply this mindset and extreme cold weather isn't really that bad.
Husband and I were in a gaming guild many years ago that contained mostly Canadians. We met some of them in person at an event in Las Vegas. I got to talking to one of them who let on that he was from Winnipeg. "Winterpeg", I snickered. He was surprised I knew the town's nickname. To this day I don't know where I got that bit of trivia.
Thanks for the journey through Winnipeg. I’ve always been curious about the place and this video is a great resource.
This is one of the best visitor-to-a-city videos I've ever seen. You are genuinely interested in the history and culture, and you try to show both the good and the bad. I've travelled a lot, and whenever I get to a city, I always ask to see the poorest part of town, and the most ordinary parts of town before I look at the tourist stuff. There's a hell of a lot of history in Winnipeg. One side of my family was Metis from there, including someone who was part of Louis Riel's "provisional government" and the Rrebellion that ended up with the creation of the Province of Manitoba.
. . . The statue of Robert Burns is a normal thing in Canada. Burns is the Scottish national poet, a figure of huge sentimental attachment to all Scots ----- and Canadian history is like totally swamped with Scots. That's why there are curling rinks everywhere, more than a dozen Highland Regiments in the Canadian military, and bagpipes blasting away at every public event. I live in Toronto, and just a few blocks from my apartment there's a huge statue of Robbie Burns, much bigger than the dinky little one you saw. Saying "apparently he was a Scottish poet" is sort of like saying "apparently, Mark Twain was an American writer."
. . . The Metis People are a mixture of Cree, Ojibway and Blackfoot ancestors mixed with French Canadians and Highland Scots. Most of the French-speaking population in Saint-Boniface are descended from French-speaking Metis and later migrants from Quebec. But there were also plenty of Scots who founded the city --- the Selkirk Settlers. Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk was a Scottish nobleman who made his lifework the resettlement of poor (and starving) Gaelic-speaking Highlanders in Canada. He founded settlements of Gaelic-speaking Scots in Prince Edward Island and Ontario, but his biggest project was in Rupert's land, where Winnipeg now stands, starting in 1812. The earliest history of Manitoba is essentially a cultural fusion of First Nations, Metis, French Canadians and Highland Scots, and those heritages account for most of the monuments, statues and names you see.
. . . The statue of Jon Sigurdsson celebrates Manitoba's Icelandic heritage. Manitoba has the largest ethnic Icelandic population outside of Iceland. Icelanders emigrated to Manitoba in the 1800s and created their own community called New Iceland. Sigurdsson, an Icelandic statesman spearheaded the movement to secure Icelandic Independence from Denmark. An identical statue stands in Reykjavik, Iceland. One of the people you talked to mentioned going to the nearby town of Gimli. People still speak Icelandic in that town, and there are a bunch of novels and stories set there. The film director you mentioned who made the film called "My Winnipeg" is named Guy Maddin, and he also made a film called "Tales of the Gimli Hospital" which was the film that started his career rolling. It's a very strange little film.
. . . Nearby there's a statue of the 19th century Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. Ukrainians are one of the largest ethnic groups in the province, as they are in the other two Prairie Provinces.
. . . So, lots of history in Winnipeg, and that stuff just scratches the surface. If you want to get a feeling for what life was like in Saint-Boniface in the 1920s, there's a marvelous collection of short stories by Gabrielle Roy called "Rue Deschambeault" [translated into English as "Street of Riches"] It's considered a classic of Canadian literature. Her prose style in French is wonderful and she brings everything from her childhood to life. The street and the house in the stories are still there.
Wow, that's some fascinating history! Thanks for sharing! Glad you enjoyed :)
@@FromHeretoThere I've just subscribed and I'll check out your other videos.
That's really fascinating! I've never visited Winnipeg, but now would love to, outside of winter and mosquito season - :).
@@elizabethmorton4904 We have had a very good larviciding program going here every spring and pretty much get the jump on the mosquito issue during the summer, except for a few backyards that may have rainwater barrels uncovered, it is quite good even after dark.
Been waiting for this video!! Great work covering Winnipeg, people and history.
Looking forward to your Churchill video!
I was born in Winterpeg, Manisnowba but lived there only one year. For the past 30 years Ive lived in the warmest part of Canada. Ive visited Winnipeg many times and have good friends there but at almost 70 years old i couldn't do the winters there now. Its a nice city with lots to do. But its too remote, too cold in the winter, and too many mosquitoes!!
The City does a lot of larviciding in early spring, so that the population is much reduced, as mosquito's can transfer virus's like bird flu.
This is my kind of weirdly specific video interest. You just got a new subscriber.
The minus 40 to minus 50 is for a few days. Maybe a cold snap for 3-4 days to the arctic jet stream.
Winnipeg and praries are populated more than the northern USA is due to the agricultural land. Winnipeg is a logistical hub.
It hasn't been _50 since the late 19th century . _40 occurs maybe every 10 or 15 years . Unless you're talking windchill , which is not correct .
@ the real air temperature at the moment includes windchill. I’ve seen -55 windchill in Saskatchewan in 21st century precisely about 15 years back. Seen a lot minus 40 on and off includes windchill chill. The actual temperature as per weather reports hovers around minus 30-35
Thanks for a documentary on this city. I live in a cold region on Lake Superior's southern shore, but I usually get some consolation by looking on the North American weather map and seeing that Winnepeg is almost always colder than where I am. It could be colder, yes, if I lived there or in the Dakotas. People there, however, remind me that we get much more snow than them. Definately a silver lining of sorts to living in Winnepeg than in Ontonagon, Michigan.
As a born and raised Winnipegger (live in Tampa now), I think you did a fantastic job talking about the city. Lots of really great facts!!
Thanks so much! :)
These videos were you visit different cities and parts of North America are awesome, plese keep making these types of videos :)
I love your energy and videos. Keep up the great work and come to Toronto soon :) The 2024 RUclips award goes to From Here to There :) Happy New Year!!!!
Haha thanks so much! Def want to make more videos in Canada next year!
he will fit right in being an asian and all
I was born in Winnipeg! Moved to Seattle in my mid 30s. I don't miss the brutal cold weather. I can tell you that Chris is not the norm. If you got a block heater or a decent bus schedule you're set for shopping or going to work.
Ok yes Milwaukee the city is over 500k and Minneapolis technically is not. But Milwaukees metro population is 1.5 million. While Minneapolis is over double with 3.7 million. I'm just saying it's way bigger.
Yeah Minneapolis metro is much larger than Milwaukee. For that I just went by city limits, however.
It took me by surprise, I had to fact-check this! I'm just outside of the Milwaukee city limits. I never realized the in-city population is technically larger than Minneapolis proper.
It was a technically correct comment, but I would say we tend to get a decent amount of people from Winnipeg in the Minneapolis area as we are the closest big metro for sure. Vikings fans, for example. I cannot imagine they'd go to Calgary or Milwaukee instead.
@@jvalley8897 that's why those stats are generally irrelevant. Metropolitan area is the real city population. City proper limits are more political boundaries. For example, if you googled a city like Vancouver you would think no one lives there, until you realize it's a Metropolitan area of many smaller cities. Some cities draw there boundaries around a huge area like Chicago or Dallas others don't but have many densely populated areas surrounding it. Should always go by Metropolitan area.
@@eazydp Yeah, Winnipeggers going on vacation driving to the next largest would automatically say Minneapolis at 7 hours, Calgary is 12, Chicago is 12, I have never in my life in Winnipeg heard of anyone going on vacation to Milwaukee.
Really Good Video. You did a nice job. 👍👍👍
My husband retired from the army last year. And when he was in the army we lived in Fairbanks for a spell. And for some unknown ungodly reason that’s where we picked to settle. We love the cold.
Thanks for the irrelevant comment. Enjoy Alaska.
So you lived in Alaska and still do? What's your point? How did that comment get 11 likes? Jesus Christ!
54:00 I over saw the rejuvenation of that building from 2010 to 2013. I was originally the Union Bank built in 1903-04 for $430,000! The Royal Bank purchased it in 1914, and it closed in the 80s and sat abandoned for 30 years. It is still to date my favourite project I had the privilege of overseeing.
The coldest windchill I have experienced here in Winnipeg was -52C.
Wow!
-72 with windchill for me in early 90s. That wind was knocking us over
@26:00+:- Winnipeg = "Prairietown" on the edge of "Flatland":- they used to call it the "Chicago of Canada" or the "Chicago of the North".
Winnipeg is a beautiful growing city. Doesn’t get enough recognition as a city it is considering the weather. Every city has its problems, Winnipeg of course isn’t perfect. But for the most part the people are nice and most importantly, we have the best hockey team in the entire league. GO JETS GO!!!
id have loved it if he came here during a major jets game. diffrent vibes. or when the river is actualy frozen and the forks is in full sesh
Winnipeg has a similar latitude as Paris, France, but since Winnipeg is so far away from any ocean there is no moderating effect of the temperature. This is also shown in the summers as well, where Winnipeg is the warmest large city in Canada. Just as there are many activities to do in the winter, Winnipeg also embraces the warm summers with patios and summer festivals. There are also some really nice lakeside communities a short drive away.
I lived in Winnipeg for 10 years and I must say I enjoyed my stay there despite the harsh winter. So many good memories. Now I'm backed in the Philippines for good. Thanks for this video. I really enjoyed watching this .
Happy New Year po Sir or Mam Bing. 10 years po? Wow. Ang tibay nyo po. Curious po, kung ok lang po, What got you to come back?
Well we traded! I stole my Filipina from Luzon and brought her to Winnipeg. We have one of the largest Pinoy population in Canada.
You mean you married a Pinay 💏@@SternDrive
@@KuyaG-x4p I retired early. Financial wise, retiring and living in Canada is not ideal. So , I came back home.
The last 10 years have been a heat wave in Winnipeg. Before 2000 , it was colder. I remember in 1980 we had almost 2 months straight of -30 temp (not wind chill). The winters now are about 2 months shorter than they used to be. I used to work outside on the railway , so I remember how cold it was and you have to wear a snow suit or you would freeze. When I was a kid , I remember snow on the ground not melted yet in May. It usually started snowing and accumulating around Nov 1 but some years Oct 15 and Halloween was snowy.
Great job!! As a born and raised Winnipeger, you taught me a few things about our city! You did visit during one of the least pretty times of the year. A fresh snowfall would look better and, of course, a summer visit when the trees are full green and the weather is the opposite of winter (we have one of the hottest summers around) would have shown you some better times. You might also go for a drive outside of Winnipeg because nature is not far away, given our 100,000 lakes. That's the icing on the cake for Winnipegers, as it's a short drive to some great camping, cottages, beaches, fishing, water sports, etc etc etc..
Thanks for the comment! Yeah the idea was to visit with some snow on the ground (I had heard usually by mid-November there is snow), but it's been an unusually warm winter I guess!
There is Fort Whyte Centre and The Leaf at Assiniboine Park ...
As someone who is born and raise Winnipeg, you did a great job of showing the city did your research. You pretty much nailed a lot of that stuff that you commented on as far as the city being dead downtown you’re right it’s because nothing for work is needed only Monday to Friday would be ridiculous busy maybe Saturdays as welland the downtown area isn’t the nicest unless you live there so no one wants to go to that area, I never go down there. I never walked down there, but overall I’m impressed by your research and so far you’re the best person I’ve ever seen to do a video about Winnipeg.
Thank you for your excellent tour and description of Winnipeg. Kudos !
I'd like to send my friends from Portland to Winnipeg when they complain about the cold! Normal winter highs are in the 50s, lows are normally above freezing, and snowfall averages about 4 inches a year.
Not long at all. Very interesting and well researched.
That snow looks fabulous, I miss the snow so much now being in San Diego.🌴 Happy New Years.🎉
lol stop. Sd is amazing
Visit Churchill next, it’s an incredible town and you’re guaranteed to see some majestic polar bears in their natural habitat
Just found your channel. I watched this one and the one about Gallup. I love it.
Louis Slotin, Canadian Physicist, was from Winnipeg. He was part of the manhattan project that developed the atomic bomb.
Wow didn't know that!
he was the guy who tickled the dragons tail and died of radiation poisoning
He also ate that dragons tail and became a baby lizard that sought out a mother lizard for her milk. Then he bought a coat
Wow! What some people will do to get warmer temperatures!🤣
Also, the Intrepid (Sir William Stephenson) was from Winnipeg. There’s a statue of him behind the legislative building. He was a WWII soldier, pilot, and spymaster. He’s the person the James Bond character was based on.
Been a subscriber since 2020 and I'm really enjoying your new format! The countdowns/lists were fun, but got a bit repetitive. It's really cool to see you switch it up and show your passion for these in-depth looks into cities that don't get much coverage otherwise.
I'm a Winnipegger and I enjoyed this video. It's fun hearing an outsider's impression of your home town.
Winnipeg's a funny place and you either love it or hate it. Personally I love it. We may be isolated, and it's cold in winter, and its hot in summer, and the land is as flat as a pool table, but I love it.
Just a couple of points. @42:35, the statue of Robbie Burns on the Legislature grounds is in honour of Scotland's national poet, and comemmorates the very large Scottish population of Winnipeg. Some of the first settlers in Winnipeg were refugees from Scotland, the Selkirk Settlers, who moved to Canada following the Highland Clearances.
Also the statue on the dome of the Manitoba Legislature is the "Golden Boy". It is not a "little" statue --- the thing is over 17' tall.
At the end of a family trip to Chicago in 2012, we decided to drive back to Winnipeg in a single day. It took about 16 hours to get from the corner of Elmhurst and Dempster in Mt. Prospect (had to clean the Jewel/Osco out of their entire stash of Diet Cherry Pepsi) to Pembina at the Perimeter.
I visited Winnipeg and stayed in that Radisson for "spring break" trip from Minneapolis in 2005? The drinking age is lower that MN, so that was our motivator. It was actually a blast, fun times. Cool to see the city again. Crazy how it looks like a sibling of Minneapolis, or maybe more accurately a giant version of Duluth, Minnesota. Fun to see some of the things I missed 20 years ago. I'd like to go again some day in the summer and check out a Blue Bombers game!
I visited there while living in Minneapolis and yes the places are similar. I was there in the summer and it was in the 30s
The 'Peg looks a lot like a mid-western American city, except Winnipeg isn't broken-up by an Interstate highway. Winnipegers prefer to drive around their city, but we can still walk across the street.
@@DaveGIS123 that's a good point, I remember noticing that. I wish Minneapolis had made the same decision instead of dissecting the city and destroying so many neighborhoods.
Wow, yeah loved Winnipeg! Although the Twin Cities will always have a special place in my heart :)
I checked out Duluth, MN on Google Maps to see if I agree with you about similarity to Winnipeg. I can see why you get that impression due to how both cities have lots of historical brick buildings despite being small cities.
However, I would say that Hamilton, Ontario, is even more similar to Duluth, MN. Not only does it have similar buildings in downtown, it is on the edge of a Great Lake, has a lift bridge and highway going over the lake, etc.
@3:44:- the flashing green lights are an "advanced green" which means you can either proceed straight ahead or make a left turn without hesitation because the opposing traffic stream still has a red light.
'Apparently he was a Scottish Poet'😆. There are a few cities in the world that have statues of Robert Burns despite him having no connection with them..for example Melbourne, Australia
But those cities will.have or had lots of Scots immigrants... Most cities sing his Auld Lang Syne, for example...
There are more statues of Robbie Burns in the world than anyone else except Queen Victoria. Burns was a great poet.
Thanks. I always wondered what Winnipeg was like.
I'm from LA (San Fernando Valley) born and raised and i got stuck in Winnipeg one afternoon in January due to a mechanical issue on a private jet.
I did my metric conversion and it was -34 F and it seemed totally insane. We rented a car just to drive around and I couldn't
believe there were people riding bikes and jogging and skating. My girlfriend said "My God!"
There was kind of a beauty in it though and the people were as friendly as it could get. And i couldn't believe that they get summers almost as hot as us as i later found out..
Should I visit the Coldest Place on Earth next?
Winter is halfway through and it may be tough getting to Siberia or Antartica
No.. Visit the nicest place to be in the Northern Hemisphere during the depressing winters in the US. That’s where I want to go next!
@@gledatelj1979it’s summer in Antarctica he would have to go in July
Yea you should. That would be pretty funny and interesting
Oymyakon or Yakutsk?
That was a nice video! Hope you are planning to one for Saskatchewan as well, maybe Saskatoon and one for Regina and Moose Jaw area
I have to admit that exchange district with the old buildings is very nice and has huge potential. If those buildings were in Calgary or Vancouver investors would be tripping backwards over them
Lots of film companies come here to shoot scenes because it's like a little Chicago, while not being Chicago expensive
theres actualy pritty high value condos in some of those old buildings. they are super super cushy on the inside. You just don't see it from the outside. I was looking for appartments years ago and looked at many of them there. ONe of them was a one bedroom, that was a converted bank vault complete with huge vault door
Fantastic video. If I wanted to show someone where I live this would be the best I’ve seen.
There are a lot of great jobs in Winnipeg and with reasonable housing costs. I have worked for a manufacturing company next to the mint for 25 years. The community is extremely friendly and open where people will stop and talk to you. We always joke about how everyone knows someone you know.
I would highly recommend seeing the city in early winter when the snow is pretty. February has a fantastic historic Festival du Voyageur. Summer nights in the outdoor patio season when the sun sets near 10PM.
Liked and subscribed!
PS Most of the poorer areas have been stagnant since the 1980’s as urban sprawl has pulled money into the suburbs. The downtown spent a long time without development which is why so many buildings became vacant and turned into parking lots. It’s also why on a cold Sunday the downtown is very quiet with no traffic.
Things have been improving recently as many new high rise buildings have rejuvenated areas of downtown and it has been slowly improving.
One thing we love to do in Winnipeg is the “Social”. That is a fundraising event for young couples saving for a wedding or maybe a hockey team going on an out-of-town tournament. You throw a huge party in a community centre gym or hall. We sell entrance tickets, alcohol, and silent auction tickets (silent auction is just a prize draw that you buy tickets for). And of course a “big bottle of perfume” tickets. That’s a code word for a Texas Mickey which is a 3L or 101oz bottle of alcohol. It used to be illegal but everyone did it anyways so they decided to make it legal, that’s why the code name. We say we are going to support our friends but it’s really an excuse to go out for a party. You offer a late lunch which is stuff to make sandwiches. Kub Rye bread is a staple at all socials.
Kubinski's Ukrainian Bakery
yeee man thats a huge thing I did in my late teenage years. The beer is cheep as well most of the time. its also super local and community focused usely so you know everyone. last one I went too was Melrose community center in east K near the ymca many years ago though.
@42:50:- Robbie Burns was a Scottish poet and much beloved by the Scottish folks who settled this area circa 1814:- for a time Lord Selkirk (a Scot), was the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company which had a major depot here and he sojourned here and organized the first organized settlement of British settlers into this region to secure it against American expansionism. He was also the commander of the De Meuron Regiment, a Swiss mercenary regiment in British service which also included a lot of Polish soldiers who had served in Napoleon's armies but were taken POW by the British in Spanish battles but were pardoned on condition that the joined the De Meurons who were then sent by Lord Selkirk to the "Red River Settlement" to guard it.
6:30 Nearest largest city is Minneapolis St. Paul
he is correct, Milwaukee is the largest city over 500,000 closest to Winnipeg, Minneapolis is below 500,000
@TheTroyc1982 Well I said Minneapolis-St. Paul
But thank U . finally a video on Winnipeg ❤❤❤❤
Born n raised here .n we Love r country roads n towns
Where did you get this data? Actually temperature without windchill factor never reached -40C. A lot of exaggeration.
Im from brandon, right outside of winnipeg but i have been waiting for you to make this video
The joke about Winnipeg is about the night being long because it's dull and nothing to do. I always heard the commentators of the Montreal Canadiens and Québec Nordiques said about that city. Even a singer from Québec sang about that in a hit song in the 70's ! Maybe it's different in 2024...2025 ! I hope so ! ;-)
How about nine months winter and three months lousy skating.