According to programingplease, Manitoba is a Canadian province located in Western Canada. Important cities include the capital Winnipeg, and Churchill on Hudson Bay.
Manitoba has approx. 1,150,000 (2001) residents, covers 647,797 km² and is thus the sixth largest of the ten provinces. Manitoba became a province in 1870. The economy has traditionally been based on agriculture.
TIMELINE:
1610 – Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay.
1612 – Captain Thomas Button, is the first European to set foot on land in Manitoba when he overwintered with two ships at Port Nelson.
1631 – Explorer Luke Foxe explores Hudson Bay and discovers that there is no passage through it. Foxe Basin, Foxe Channel and Foxe Peninsula are all named after him.
1690-91 – Henry Kelsey, an important figure in the founding of the Hudson Bay Company, explored northern Manitoba from the Hudson Bay to the Saskatchewan River.
1851 – Between July 13 and 15, the ” Battle of Grand Coteau (North Dakota) ” takes place between Sioux Indians and buffalo hunters on the Souris plains.
1862 – The ” Dakota War ” is an armed conflict between the United States and several groups of Sioux Indians. The conflict began Aug. 17 along the Minnesota River and ended with the mass execution of 38 Dakota men on Dec. 26 in Mankato, Minnesota.
1916 – Manitoba is the first province to grant women the right to vote.
1919 – The ” Winnipeg General Strike ” in March was one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history and became a platform for future labor reforms.
1950 – The May 5 flood of Winnipeg was dubbed ” Black Friday ” by city dwellers as the Red River Valley flooded the entire area (1,600 square miles). Four out of 11 bridges were destroyed and nearly 100,000 people were evacuated from their homes. This was the largest evacuation until later in 1979. Only 1 person died, but there was a total of between 600 million to 1 billion dollars in damage.
1967 – UFO MYTH: Stefan Michalak, vacationing on May 20 in Whiteshell Provincial Park, explored Falcon Lake after quartz when he spotted two cigar-shaped objects flying down to the ground and one landed close on him (about 48 meters). A door opened and he heard voices from inside the object, after which he tried to get in touch with them in English and other languages, but no answer. He claimed that he burned his hand when he tried to examine the “colorful glass” that was around the object and saw a groove-like exhaust / ventilation in front of him on which he had his clothes and skin burned, leaving a mark on his belly in a pattern with holes. When Michalak later in June was to help police find the spot again, he had forgotten. Police knew Michalak had drunk several beers before the experience the night before. On the 26th he then found the place and found his personal belongings which he had left there. Police found a semicircle on the ground and the moss was somehow removed. There were traces of radioactivity in the stones at the marking and where the moss was missing. The radioactive material found was radium 226, a naturally occurring isotope commonly used and found in radioactive waste. It was concluded that there was no radiation hazard to people in the area. The story was included in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. Michalak died in 1999, aged 83 years.
1979 – On November 10, a 106-vehicle train loaded with explosives and toxic chemicals is derailed north of Mavis Road and Dundas Street. One of the wagons carrying propane exploded, and since the other wagons had chlorine in them, it was decided to evacuate the residents of the nearby town of Mississauga. 218,000 people were evacuated, and within a few days the city was practically like a ghost town.
1983 – Air Canada Flight 143, known as the ” Gimli Glider “, after landing at Gimli Air Force Base on July 22, after soaring 128 km when they ran out of fuel.
2008 – 22-year-old Tim McLean was brutally murdered, had his head cut off and was eaten by his sidekick during a night bus ride near Portage la Prairie, and none of the 36 passengers stopped him but fled in fear. The Chinese immigrant who murdered McLean showed the severed head to the bus passengers. The Chinese wanted to escape from the bus, but the entrance was blocked so he went back to the body, which he chopped to pieces and ate off.
