Friends to Manitoba
The Province of Manitoba joins the confederation July 15, 1870. Manitoba is located in the middle in Canada`s provinces and is the easternmost of the three Prairie Provinces and is ranks 8th in total land area. The province is ranks 5th in population with almost 1.2 million residents in 2007 that most of them are living in the southern half of the province and 700.000 are living in Winnipeg with metro. The Capital City is Winnipeg. Largest Cities: Winnipeg, Brandon, Thompson, Portage la Prairie, Steinbach, Selkirk, Winkler, Dauphin, Morden and The Pas. The languages in Manitoba are English and French, both is official language. Manitoba has a very mix of ethnicity and race; Canadian 25,0%, English 22,1%, German 18,2%, Scottish 17,7% and 17,0% a mixed background. Manitoba is bordered Nunavut Territories and Hudson Bay to the north, Ontario to the east, Saskatchewan to the west and USA with the states North Dakota and Minnesota to the south. Manitoba is an agriculture province like many other of the Canada provinces and beef cattle farms are the most dominant farms in Manitoba, followed grain and oilseed and wheat farms. These farms/ranches dominated more than 70% of Manitoba’s farms. Including in the agriculture branch is commercial fishing in Hudson Bay, Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba, hunting and forestry industry for lumber, plywood, wood pulp and paper. Other industry is food processing, mining after nickel, copper and zinc. Manitoba is the only Canadian province with deep sea ports at Churchill and along the Hudson Bay and is Canada`s seaport to the Arctic Ocean and Asia and Europe. Also is tourism in Manitoba like every province in Canada a big economic sector with outdoor activities such as hunting, camping, skiing, hiking rock climbing, and coast, lake and river fishing.
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