Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

Southern Manitoba ( including the city of Winnipeg ), falls into the humid continental climate zone ( Köppen Dfb ).

A few other ( but not all ) species of maple ( Acer ) are also sometimes used as sources of sap for producing maple syrup, including the box elder or Manitoba maple ( Acer negundo ), the silver maple ( A. sacharinum ), and the bigleaf maple ( A. macrophyllum ).

The balloons continued to arrive in Oregon, Kansas, Iowa, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Washington, Idaho, South Dakota, Nevada ( including one that landed near Yerington that was discovered by cowboys who cut it up and used it as a hay tarp, another by a prospector near Elko who delivered it to local authorities on the back of a donkey, and another that was shot down by Army Air Corps planes near Reno ).

To protect the city from future floods, the Manitoba government undertook the construction of a massive system of diversions, dikes, and floodways ( including the Red River Floodway and the Portage Diversion ).

Poison ivy grows throughout much of North America, including the Canadian Maritime provinces, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and all U. S. states east of the Rocky Mountains, as well as in the mountainous areas of Mexico up to around ( caquistle or caxuistle is the Nahuatl term

Led by University of Manitoba Professor David Barber, a Canada Research Chair, the project involved more than 300 scientists from 16 countries, including over 40 faculty members, research associates, graduate students, technicians and support staff from the University of Manitoba.

The Arctic watershed ( or drainage basin ) drains northern parts of Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia, most of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut as well as parts of Yukon into the Arctic Ocean, including the Beaufort Sea and Baffin Bay.

The Union Flag remains a component of other Canadian flags, including the provincial flags of British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario.

Known as " The Gateway to the North ", The Pas is a multi-industry northern Manitoba town serving a district population of over 15, 000 ( including the Opaskwayak Cree Nation ).

The stream was used by fur traders, including the Métis people, and by the settlers of the Red River Colony, the primary settlement of which eventually became Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Black-billed Magpies range in the north from coastal southern Alaska, central British Columbia, and the southern halves of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, through the Rocky Mountains down south to all the Rocky Mountain states including New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and some bordering states as well.

From the late 19th century to the end of the World War II, Goodsell Observatory kept the time for every major railroad west of the Mississippi River, including Northern Pacific Railway, the Great Northern Railway, the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad, and the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba railroads.

The Reform Party was founded as a Western-based political party in a convention in May 1987 in Winnipeg, Manitoba led by three principal organizers including Preston Manning, former Liberal Party member Stan Roberts, and Robert Muir.

There are many variations of the Charlson comorbidity index including the Charlson / Deyo, Charlson / Romano, Charlson / Manitoba, and Charlson / D ' Hoores adaptations of the Charlson comorbidity index.

He participated in more than 2, 000 events, including the annual New Year's Levée, which he moved to various locations around the country, seeing the party organised at Ottawa, Ontario, in 1996 ; Quebec City, Quebec, in 1997 ; Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1998 ; and St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 1999.

The land includes several islands, including Oak Island, and two small capes that are below ( south of ) the 49th parallel north in the extreme southwest part of the township, south of the southeast corner of Manitoba, and not far from the northeast corner of Roseau County.

Their breeding habitat is alkaline marshes, acid bogs, lakes, ponds, rivers, marshes, brackish marshes, and the margins of estuaries and other aquatic environments in northern Saskatchewan, Manitoba, across Ontario and Quebec as well as the Atlantic Canadian Provinces, including the Great Lakes, and the Adirondacks in the United States.

During his tenure at the helm of CBC's flagship newscast beginning May 1, 1988 ( as co-anchor of CBC Prime Time News from November 1992 to fall 1995, and as sole anchor of The National otherwise ), he has covered Canadian news stories including federal elections, party leadership conventions, the Meech Lake Accord negotiations, the Charlottetown Accord and its referendum, the 1995 Quebec referendum, floods in Manitoba in 1997, ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in 1998, the six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, the 2003 blackout across much of Eastern North America and the death and state funeral of Jack Layton.

He was supported by MPs Pat Martin, Judy Wasylycia-Leis, Bev Desjarlais, Wendy Lill, Yvon Godin and Dick Proctor, Manitoba Premier Gary Doer, New Democratic Party of Ontario leader Howard Hampton, and several former MPs including Simon de Jong, Dawn Black, Ian Waddell and Howard McCurdy.

The premier served on the boards of a number of major companies, including: Barclays Bank ( Canada ) Ltd., Caisse d ' économie, Molson Bank, Canadian Investments Funds, Bank of Montreal, Royal Trust Company, Sun Life Assurance, Metropolitan Life Assurance Co., Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co., Pioneer Insurance Co., Globe Indemnity Co. and the Manitoba Liverpool Insurance Co ..

Winnipeg's relatively isolated location makes Winnipeg International Airport the primary international airport for a very large area, and as such it is used as a gateway to areas including the province of Manitoba and parts of neighboring provinces and territories Saskatchewan, Northwestern Ontario and Nunavut.

No Liberal incumbent won a seat west of Manitoba, although the Liberals did win two seats in western Canada, including Turner himself.

Several credible political figures, including Manitoba Tory cabinet minister Brian Pallister, Major-General Lewis MacKenzie, former Reform MP Stephen Harper, and the retiring PC Party president Michael Fortier were all encouraged to run as Unite the Right candidates by both sides of the conservative divide in the 1998 Progressive Conservative leadership convention.

Kenora, originally named Rat Portage, is a small city situated on the Lake of the Woods in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, close to the Manitoba boundary, and about east of Winnipeg.

Kenora was once claimed as part of the Province of Manitoba, and there are early references to Rat Portage, Manitoba.

Some residents of Kenora, citing dissatisfaction with the level of government service provided to the region by the provincial government, have proposed that the region secede from Ontario to join the province of Manitoba.

* 16 – 18 March — Kenora Thistles defeats Brandon, Manitoba to win the Manitoba title and defends the Stanley Cup.

The Wanderers would regain the Cup from Kenora two months later in Winnipeg, Manitoba, defeating the Thistles 7 – 2 and 5 – 6.

CBWT had approximately 50 analog television rebroadcasters throughout the province of Manitoba ( e. g. The Pas and Thompson, the Central Time Zone portion of Northern Ontario ( e. g. Kenora ) and portions of Saskatchewan.

He played in the Manitoba Hockey Association with the Brandon Wheat Kings, Winnipeg Rowing Club and the Kenora Thistles, and in the National Hockey Association as a member of the Quebec Bulldogs.

It begins at the Manitoba border west of Kenora and ends south of Arnprior at the western terminus of Highway 417, to the east.

On May 15, 2009 the federal and provincial government also announced that twinning of Highway 17 at the Manitoba / Ontario border easterly toward Kenora would also begin in 2010.

Cameron then moved to Rat Portage ( now Kenora ), which was claimed by both Manitoba and Ontario at the time.

CBWFT had 11 analog television re-transmitters in Manitoba ( e. g. Brandon ) and Northwestern Ontario ( in the parts of that region which fall in the Central Time Zone, e. g. Kenora ).

An intermediate version of the Kenora Thistles were a Canadian Junior Hockey Team in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League and began play in 1910.

In 1968 the Kenora Muskies began playing in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League.

* 1940 Kenora Thistles at Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame

** Sturgeon River in northern Kenora District in the Hayes River watershed, same as Sturgeon River ( Manitoba ).

Playing his junior career for the Kenora Thistles of the Manitoba junior league, Rayner showed his skill early in backstopping the team to the Memorial Cup championship in 1940.

The highway is designated as T-C 1 throughout Manitoba until it reaches the eastern provincial border with Ontario, where it continues as the main route to Kenora, Ontario and the rest of Eastern Canada as Highway 17.

Westbound driving from Kenora, Ontario to Winnipeg, near Lorette, Manitoba | Lorette ( East of Winnipeg )