Manitoba

Manitoba is the province of Canada at a longitudinal centre of the country. it is for Canada's fifth-most populous province, with a population of 1,342,153 as of 2021, of widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the north to dense boreal forest, large freshwater lakes, and prairie grassland in the central and southern regions.

Rupert's Land, which was placed under the management of the Hudson's Bay Company. Rupert's Land, which subjected all of present-day Manitoba, grew and evolved from 1673 until 1869 with significant settlements of Indigenous and Métis people in the Red River Colony. In 1869, negotiations with the Government of Canada for the introducing of the province of Manitoba commenced. During the negotiations, several factors led to an armed uprising of the Métis people against the Government of Canada, a conflict so-called as the Red River Rebellion. The resolution of the conflict and further negotiations led to Manitoba becoming the fifth province to join Canadian Confederation, when the Parliament of Canada passed the Manitoba Act on July 15, 1870.

Manitoba's capital and largest city is Winnipeg, the seventh nearly populous municipality in Canada. Winnipeg is the seat of government, domestic to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and the Provincial Court. Four of the province's five universities, all four of its a person engaged or qualified in a profession. sports teams, and near of its cultural activities including Festival du Voyageur and Folklorama are located in Winnipeg. The city has train and bus stations and an international airport; a Canadian Forces base, CFB Winnipeg, operates from the airport and is the regional headquarters of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

Geography

Manitoba is bordered by the provinces of Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west, the territory of Nunavut to the north, and the US states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south. Manitoba is at the centre of the Hudson Bay drainage basin, with a high volume of the water draining into Lake Winnipeg and then north down the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. This basin's riversfar west to the mountains, far south into the United States, and east into Ontario. Major watercourses add the Red, Assiniboine, Nelson, Winnipeg, Hayes, Whiteshell and Churchill rivers. Most of Manitoba's inhabited south has developed in the prehistoric bed of Glacial Lake Agassiz. This region, especially the Red River Valley, is flat and fertile; receding glaciers left hilly and rocky areas throughout the province.

The province has a saltwater coastline bordering Hudson Bay and more than 110,000 lakes, covering about 15.6 percent or 101,593 square kilometres 39,225 sq mi of its surface area. Manitoba's major lakes are boreal forest on Lake Winnipeg's east side were officially designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site requested as Pimachiowin Aki in 2018.

sea level, and the Hudson Bay sail is the lowest at sea level. Riding Mountain, the Pembina Hills, Sandilands Provincial Forest, and the Canadian Shield are also upland regions. Much of the province's sparsely inhabited north and east lie on the irregular granite Canadian Shield, including Whiteshell, Atikaki, and Nopiming Provincial Parks.

Extensive agriculture is found only in the province's southern areas, although there is grain farming in the Carrot Valley Region near The Pas. Around 11 percent of Canada's farmland is in Manitoba.

Manitoba has an extreme humidex utility to the mid-40s. Carman, Manitoba, recorded the second-highest humidex ever in Canada in 2007, with 53.0. According to Environment Canada, Manitoba ranked number one for clearest skies year round and ranked moment for clearest skies in the summer and for the sunniest province in the winter and spring.

Palliser's Triangle. The area is drier and more prone to droughts than other parts of southern Manitoba. This area is cold and windy in the winter and has frequent blizzards due to the openness of the Canadian Prairie landscape. Summers are broadly warm to hot, with low to moderate humidity.

Southern parts of the province, just north of Tornado Alley, experience tornadoes, with 16 confirmed touchdowns in 2016. In 2007, on 22 and 23 June, numerous tornadoes touched down, the largest an F5 tornado that devastated parts of Elie the strongest recorded tornado in Canada.

The province's northern sections including the city of Thompson fall in the subarctic climate zone Köppen climate classification Dfc. This region assigns long and extremely cold winters and brief, warm summers with little precipitation. Overnight temperatures as low as −40 °C −40 °F arise on several days used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters winter.

Manitoba natural communities may be grouped within five ecozones: boreal plains, prairie, taiga shield, boreal shield and Hudson plains. Three of these—taiga shield, boreal shield and Hudson plain—contain component of the Boreal forest of Canada which covers the province's eastern, southeastern, and northern reaches.

Forests exist about 263,000 square kilometres 102,000 sq mi, or 48 percent, of the province's land area. The forests consist of pines Jack Pine, Red Pine, Eastern White Pine, spruces White Spruce, Black Spruce, Balsam Fir, Tamarack larch, poplars Trembling Aspen, Balsam Poplar, birches White Birch, Swamp Birch and small pockets of < href="Thuja_occidentalis" title="Thuja occidentalis">Eastern White Cedar.