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Winnipeg will be hosting the 94th
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Winnipeg is well known for its arts and culture. Among the popular cultural institutions in the city are: the
Royal Winnipeg Ballet , the
Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG), the
Manitoba Opera , the
Manitoba Museum (formerly the Museum of Man and Nature), the
Manitoba Theatre Centre , the
Prairie Theatre Exchange , and the
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra . The city is home to several large festivals. The
Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival is North America's second largest Fringe Festival, held every July. Other festivals include
Folklorama , the
Winnipeg Jazz Festival , the
Winnipeg Folk Festival , the
Winnipeg Music Festival , the
Red River Exhibition , and
Le Festival Du Voyageur .
Winnipeg also has a thriving film community, producing local independent films, such as those by
Guy Maddin . It has also supported a number of
Hollywood productions, including
''Shall We Dance'' (2004), the
Oscar nominated film ''
Capote '' (2005), and ''
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford '' (2006). Several locally-produced and national television dramas have also been shot in Winnipeg. The
National Film Board Of Canada and the
Winnipeg Film Group have produced numerous award-winning films.
There are several TV and Film production companies in Winnipeg. Some of the prominent ones are
Frantic Films ,
Buffalo Gal Pictures ,
Les Productions Rivard and
Eagle Vision .
There is also a growing popularity of film and video production courses taking place at many public schools throughout the city, such as (2004), and
Everybody's Nobody (2005), and currently working on a third for release in late spring of 2006. Local band
Projektor has even lent several of their songs for students to use in both
Aeden's Reality , and
Everybody's Nobody .
Winnipeg has a community college,
Red River College . Winnipeg's four universities are the
University Of Manitoba (undergraduate, graduate school, and medical school),
Collège Universitaire De Saint-Boniface affiliated with University of Manitoba, the
University Of Winnipeg (undergraduate and select graduate programs) and
Canadian Mennonite University (private). Winnipeg is also home to several prestigious private schools, including
St. John's Ravenscourt School ,
St. Paul's High School ,
St. Mary's Academy ,
Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute and
Balmoral Hall .
Winnipeg is also known for its various music acts. Among the most notable are
Neil Young ,
The Guess Who ,
Bachman-Turner Overdrive Chantal Kreviazuk ,
Bif Naked ,
The Waking Eyes , the
New Meanies ,
The Weakerthans ,
Crash Test Dummies , and many more.
Winnipeg has also achieved some acclaim for being the "Slurpee capital of the world", as its residents have a year-round penchant for the icy slush served in convenience stores.
The Exchange District Historical site is the original site of commerce in Winnipeg. After the railroads came to Winnipeg, this area was developed with many fine warehouses, offices and banks. Many of these buildings are still standing and are unrivalled in Canada.
On
September 27 ,
1997 , the original core of the city of Winnipeg, the Exchange District, was declared a
National Historic Site by the federal Minister of Canadian Heritage. The Historic Sites and Monuments board recommended that Winnipeg's Exchange District be designated an historic district of national significance because it illustrates the city's key role as a centre of grain and wholesale trade, finance and manufacturing in two historically important periods in western development: between 1880 and 1900 when Winnipeg became the gateway to Canada's West; and between 1900 and 1913, when the city's growth made it the region's metropolis.
Winnipeg’s famous North End has spawned a variety of talented writers, artists and entertainers ranging from Let’s Make A Deal’s Monty Hall to The Guess Who’s Burton Cummings. The commercial main street of this neighbourhood, Selkirk Avenue, first saw development in the 1870s and its importance grew with a wave of immigration from Eastern Europe. The old country flavour of the neighbourhood still exists with a variety of boutiques, bakeries and butcher shops. This vibrant area also boasts 49 painted murals, each depicting a different multicultural and historical scene.
Archiseek: Winnipeg
- J. M. Bumsted, ''The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919: An Illustrated History'' 1994, 140 pp. heavily illus;ISBN 0-920486-40-1.
- Ramsay Cook; ''The Politics of John W. Dafoe and the Free Press'' (1963)
- Grayson, J. P., and L. M. Grayson, "The Social Base of Interwar Political Unrest in Urban Alberta". ''Canadian Journal of Political Science'', 7: 289-313 (1974)
- Kenneth McNaught; ''A Prophet in Politics: A Biography of J. S. Woodsworth''. (1959)
- Norman Penner, ed., ''Winnipeg 1919: The Strikers' Own History of the Winnipeg General Strike'' (Toronto: 1973)
- K. W. Taylor; "Voting in Winnipeg During the Depression" ''Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology'' v 19 #2 1982. pp 222+
- Taylor, K. W., and Nelson Wiseman, "Class and Ethnic Voting in Winnipeg: The Case of 1941". Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 14: 174-87 1977
- Wiseman, Nelson and K. W. Taylor, "Ethnic vs Class Voting: the Case of Winnipeg, 1945". Canadian Journal of Political Science 7: 314-28 1974
- Wiseman, Nelson and K. W. Taylor, "Class and Ethnic Voting in Winnipeg During the Cold War". Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 16: 60-76 1979
:''See also
Media In Winnipeg, Manitoba
- '' Uptown '' - found at various downtown locations
There are one French and six English stations based in Winnipeg that supply free programming to the city. Most homes subscribe to cable through
Shaw Communications , or digital television through
MTS digital. There are also two satellite services available through
StarChoice and
Bell ExpressVu . Some homes use
Grey Market satellite dishes to bring in signals from American satellite services.
All of these stations are owned by Global, except for APTN.
Winnipeg is home to 25 AM and FM radio stations. The most popular station for many years has been
CJOB , a talk oriented station famous its coverage of major storms and floods. After an absence of many years, Winnipeg is now home to two English and one French campus radio stations.
NCI is devoted to Aboriginal programming and
CKJS is to devoted to ethnic programming.
CBC Radio One and
CBC Radio Two broadcast local and national programming. There are several rock and pop oriented stations, one tourist information station and one country station. Two
CBC stations broadcast French programming.
- Randy Bachman , musician, ( The Guess Who ) & Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO)
- Brenda Barrie , novelist and poet
- Tyler Brûlé , journalist and publisher
- Burton Cummings , musician, ( The Guess Who )
- Len Cariou , actor
- Deanna Durbin , actress
- Terry Fox , cancer activist and national hero
- Monty Hall , television host of Let's Make A Deal
- Cindy Klassen , athlete
- Guy Maddin , director
- Anna Paquin , actress
- Leonard Peikoff , philosopher
- Fred Penner , children's entertainer , musician
- Louis Riel , politician
- Gabrielle Roy , author
- John K. Samson , singer-songwriter, founding member and front man of The Weakerthans , former member of Winnipeg punk band Propagandhi
- Sir William Stephenson (aka Intrepid) , spy, man on whom the character of James Bond is based
- Nia Vardalos , actress and writer
- Alexander Steen , professional Ice Hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs
- Aaron Funk , musician, ( Venetian Snares )
- Belinda Montgomery , actress
- David Steinberg , comedian
- Oscar Brand , folk singer
- Juliette , singer and TV personality
- Doug Henning , magician and entertainer in Ft. Garry, then a suburb of Winnipeg
- James Patrick , NHL hockey player
- Guy Gavriel Kay , novelist and poet
- Tommy Douglas , father of Medicare in Canada
- Marshall McLuhan , media guru
- Scott Fitzpatrick , musician and author
- A. E. Van Vogt , Science Fiction writer
- Dr. Robert (Bob) Brent Thirsk , Canadian astronaut, STS-78 shuttle mission
- Neil Young , musician
- Lenny Breau , jazz guitarist
- Chris Jericho , Professional Wrestler, WWE Champion, WCW Champion, etc.
- Tyler Arnason , NHL player who plays for the Ottawa Senators
- Winnipeg Bear , the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh, was not actually born in Winnipeg. Instead, Winnipeg was purchased in White River, Ontario , by an officer (Lieutenant Harry Colebourn) of the Fort Garry Horse cavalry regiment en route to his embarkation point for the front lines of World War I. He named the bear after the regiment's home town of Winnipeg. In 1924, on an excursion to the London Zoo with neighbour children, Christopher Robin Milne, son of author A. A. Milne , was introduced to Winnie for the first time.
- An E.H. Shepard painting of "Winnie the Pooh" is the only known oil painting of Winnipeg’s famous bear cub. It was purchased at an auction for $285,000 in London, England late in 2000. The painting is displayed in the Pavilion Gallery in Assiniboine Park . The painting is a focal point a $6-million Poohseum in Assiniboine Park that will include a Hundred Acre Wood playground.
This is a list of Winnipeg's
Sister Cities and the date the agreement with each location was signed.
- Setagaya , Tokyo , Japan ( October 5 , 1970 )
- Reykjavík , Iceland ( September 7 , 1971 )
- Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA ( January 31 , 1973 )
- Lviv , Ukraine ( November 26 , 1973)
- Manila , Philippines ( December 31 , 1979 )
- Taichung , Taiwan ( April 2 , 1982 )
- Kuopio , Finland ( June 11 , 1982)
- Beer-Sheva , Israel ( May 15 , 1984 )
- Chengdu , China ( February 24 , 1988 )
- Chinju , South Korea ( April 1 , 1992 )
- San Nicolás De Los Garza , Mexico ( July 23 , 1999 )
