( One exception is Winnipeg, which reserves 959 only ).

* 959-4444 Manitoba Telephone System ( 204 MB ) ( 959 is used as 958 is a regular Winnipeg exchange, not a test prefix )

The painting is displayed at the Pavilion Gallery in Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Jack Jacobs of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers is recognized, not for inventing the forward pass, but for popularizing it in the Western Interprovincial Football Union, thus changing the Canadian game from a more run-dominated game to the passing game as seen today.

A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts ( except in 2011, due to a scheduling conflict ), and Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers play on Labour Day weekend.

Manitoba's capital and largest city, Winnipeg, is Canada's eighth-largest Census Metropolitan Area, and home to 60 percent of the population of the province.

Winnipeg is the seat of government, home to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and the highest court in the jurisdiction, the Manitoba Court of Appeal.

Winnipeg also has the second-clearest skies year-round and is the second-sunniest city in Canada in the spring and winter.

In Winnipeg on July 29th the average high is 26. 3C ( 79. 3F ) and the average low is 13. 5C ( 56. 3F ).

It is located on Manitoba Provincial Highway 5 in the Rural Municipality of Argyle, about 29 km east of Killarney, or about 200 km southwest of Winnipeg.

The University of Manitoba ( U of M in short ), in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is the largest university in the province of Manitoba.

The Ian N. Morrison Research Farm near Carman is a facility located from Winnipeg, while the Glenlea facility is approximately and located from Winnipeg.

There is one high school located within the city boundaries, Victoria High School, founded in 1876, making it the oldest High School in North America north of Portland, Oregon and west of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

* The University of Winnipeg is founded in Canada.

* June 19 – Battle of Seven Oaks: The Hudson's Bay Company is defeated by the North West Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Lake Winnipeg is similarly named by the local Cree, as is the location for the City of Winnipeg.

After Regina it is another east to Brandon, Manitoba, east to Portage la Prairie, and finally east to Winnipeg.

Some historians believe the early home of the Crow-Hidatsa ancestral tribe was near the headwaters of the Mississippi River in either northern Minnesota or Wisconsin ; others place them in the Winnipeg area of Manitoba.

Canadian Forces Base Winnipeg, co-located at the airport, is home to many flight operations support divisions and several training schools.

Winnipeg is home to a number of reserve units:

For many years, Winnipeg was the home of the Second Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry ( 2 PPCLI ).

The only building that was allowed to stay untouched was the current home of the Manitoba Club, which started as an organization in 1874, only one year after the incorporation of Winnipeg.

Di left home at the age of 17 and moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, to attend college.

* Saint Boniface, Manitoba, an area of the city of Winnipeg, home to the Franco-Manitoban community

The Posse's penultimate home game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers had an announced attendance of only 2, 350 people — the lowest recorded attendance in CFL history.

In their 1954 inaugural season, Stukus sold football fever on the streets of Vancouver and put together a team that made history when they stepped on the field of Empire Stadium for their first ever home game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday, August 28, 1954.

Visitors to the festival are invited to sample exotic cuisine and celebrate the cultural and ethnic heritage of people from dozens of countries who have made Winnipeg their home.

While the team played their longtime rival, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, in the playoffs for the first time since 1975 and won, they lost the West Final to the eventual champion Edmonton Eskimos, missing a close chance to play in the Grey Cup at home.

After finishing first-place in the CFL East Division, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were rewarded with eight players ( Receiver Terrence Edwards and offensive linemen Brendon LaBatte and Glenn January, were recognized on offense, while defensive linemen Doug Brown and Odell Willis along with defensive backs Jovon Johnson, Jonathan Hefney and Ian Logan took home the honors on defense ) being named to the CFL ’ s 2011 East Division All-Star Team, the most by any other team in their division.

Winnipeg Stadium, built in the West End of the city near Polo Park has been the home of the Blue Bombers since 1953.

The Phoenix Coyotes of the NHL once called the US Airways Center home, starting with their move from Winnipeg to Phoenix in 1996, and up until 2003, when they moved to Jobing. com Arena ( formerly Glendale Arena ), which was more suited for NHL hockey.

Additionally, their home arena, Winnipeg Arena, seated only 15, 300 for hockey — the smallest in the league at the time.

The Winnipeg Jets played their last-ever game on April 28, 1996, a home playoff loss to the Detroit Red Wings by a score of 4 – 1.

The Winnipeg White Out is a hockey tradition that dates back to 1987 when fans were asked to wear white clothing to home playoff games, creating a very intimidating effect and atmosphere.

Winnipeg is also home to:

The base is home to 402 " City of Winnipeg " Squadron, 435 “ Chinthe ” Transport and Rescue Squadron and the Yellowknife based 440 " Vampire " Transport & Rescue Squadron.

The plane carried the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers and fans on the their way home from a game in Vancouver.

The Pas (; French: Le Pas ) is a town in Manitoba, Canada, located in Division No. 21, Manitoba in the Northern Region, some 630 kilometres northwest of the provincial capital, Winnipeg, near the border of Saskatchewan.

Some papers that use Dyer's column regularly include the Japan Times, The Courier ( Ballarat ), the Straits Times ( Singapore ), the South China Morning Post ( Hong Kong ), the Bangkok Post, the Canberra Times, the New Zealand Herald, The Pioneer ( New Delhi ), DNA ( Bombay ), Dawn ( Karachi ), the Tehran Times, Arab News ( Saudi Arabia ), the Jordan Times, Monday Morning ( Beirut ), Egypt Today, the Jerusalem Post, Hurriyet Daily News ( Istanbul ), the Moscow Times, Telegraf ( Kiev ), Lidove Noviny ( Prague ), Adevarul ( Bucharest ), Helsingin Sanomat ( Finland ), Information ( Copenhagen ), NRC Handelsblad ( Rotterdam ), De Standaard ( Brussels ), Zeitpunkt ( Switzerland ), Internazionale ( Rome ), The New Vision ( Uganda ), The Star ( Nairobi ), Zimbabwe Independent, The Citizen ( Johannesburg ), the Cape Times, Le Droit ( Ottawa ), NOW ( Toronto ), La Presse ( Montreal ), Georgia Straight ( Vancouver ), Dawson Creek Daily News ( Dawson Creek ), Fast Forward Magazine ( Calgary ), the Winnipeg Free Press the Jamaica Daily Gleaner, the Trinidad Express, the Barbados Advocate, Buenos Aires Herald, and the Visayan Daily Star ( Philippines ).

The 13th Brigade was chosen to participate in the invasion of Kiska, comprising, in addition to Le Régiment de Hull, the Canadian Fusiliers, the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Rocky Mountain Rangers.

Lake Winnipeg lies along one of the oldest trading routes in North America to have flown the British flag.

The Grant Memorial Baptist Church in Winnipeg is the oldest surviving Canadian BGC church.

The-year-old building, regarded as " Western Canada's oldest skyscraper ," will mark the college's second urban campus in downtown Winnipeg and is only one block from the Princess Street Campus.

Winnipeg is home to the oldest Filipino community in Canada with Filipino immigration to Winnipeg beginning before 1950.

Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, it is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America.