Answer: Muddy waters
The Cree name 'win-nipi' referred specifically to the large lake north of the city of Winnipeg that carries the same name. While the 'muddy waters' were those of the lake, it certainly still applies to the waters of Winnipeg's rivers.
Winnipeg was incorporated as a city in 1873. In 1971, a unicity amalgamation joined the (then) City of Winnipeg with the municipalities of Transcona, St. Boniface, St. Vital, West Kildonan, East Kildonan, Tuxedo, Old Kildonan, North Kildonan, Fort Garry, Charleswood, and the City of St. James.
From Quiz: Manitoba - The Keystone Province
Answer: Manitoba
Winnipeg is the capital of Manitoba. It was established as Fort Rouge in 1738 and incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873.
From Quiz: Around Winnipeg
Answer: a biosphere reserve by UNESCO
At various stages between 1929 and 1933, Riding Mountain National Park was established by the federal government of Canada. In 1986, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established the Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve. The designation is in recognition of the diversity of ecosystems present, as well as for maintaining the biodiversity and conservation.
From Quiz: Riding Mountain National Park
Answer: Spruce Woods
The sand in Spruce Woods Provincial Park was deposited as a river delta draining glacial Lake Agassiz in what is now the southern part of the province of Manitoba. The Park protects the remaining sand dunes, as well as wildlife like the western hognose snake, the northern prairie skink, and the pincushion cactus. The Devils Punch Bowl is a small blue-green spring-fed pool in the sandy area creating an oasis of spruce trees. Kiche Manitou Lake, an oxbow lake, is used for swimming and canoeing and is a creation of the meandering Assiniboine River. The original human inhabitants revered the area as a place close to the Great Spirit, also known as Kiche Manitou.
From Quiz: Magical, Mystical Manitoba Moments
Answer: Boissevain
Boissevain is located in the southwest corner of Manitoba, close to the Turtle Mountains and the International Peace Gardens. The statue of "Tommy the Turtle" stands about 28 feet high and weighs about five tons! Every summer, there are turtle races during the town's annual turtle festival, featuring the Western Painted Turtle. The town's murals largely depict the area's history.
From Quiz: Magnificent Manitoba Towns
Answer: Winnipeg
Yes - it's Winnie the Pooh. A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh, took his son, Christopher, to the London Zoo, where Christopher saw a real bear named 'Winnipeg'. 'Winnipeg' (also known as 'Winnie') had been bought for 10 dollars by Captain Harry Coleburn during World War 1, and named after Coleburn's home city.
From Quiz: Mostly Southern Manitoba
Answer: Lake Winnipeg
Lake Winnipeg is the 11th largest lake in the world (the tenth largest freshwater lake).
From Quiz: Lakes of Manitoba
Answer: Winnipeg
Lies at the junction of the Assiniboine and the Red Rivers. It became a city in 1873.
From Quiz: Manitoba Quiz
Answer: Investors Group Field
Investors Group Field was opened in 2013. Many of the 33,500 seats are protected from the elements by a corrugated metal roof. Mosaic Stadium is in Regina. It is the home of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
From Quiz: Around Winnipeg
Answer: Duck Mountain
Duck Mountain Provincial Park spans the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border and is geologically a result of the last ice age. The many small but cold lakes, marshes, and bogs provide canoe routes, as well as fishing, swimming, boating, and interesting hiking. One of the park's viewing towers is located on the highest point in Manitoba, Baldy Mountain, at 831 metres above sea level. Historically, "the Ducks" created a barrier to be skirted by explorers and fur-traders, though the Cree, Assiniboine, Anishinabe and Ojibwe were able to navigate the park.
From Quiz: Magical, Mystical Manitoba Moments
Answer: Emerson
The town was named after Ralph Waldo Emerson the American poet, essayist, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement. The town of Emerson boasts many historic buildings and is located close to the original site of Fort Dufferin. The Fort was the starting point for an 840-mile trip west to the Rockies by 300 members of the North West Mounted Police in 1874, and was the base for the international commission that marked the Canada-US boundary. (Pembina is the American town located across the border from Emerson in Manitoba.)
From Quiz: Magnificent Manitoba Towns
Answer: Gladstone
Gladstone also has the nickname 'Happy Rock'. The rock is happy because it has a huge smile on his face.
From Quiz: Mostly Southern Manitoba
Answer: Clear Lake
Located in Manitoba's parkland (the transition area between the prairie and the Canadian Shield), Riding Mountain National Park was founded in 1930. Wasagaming is from the Cree language and it means "clear water," hence the name of the lake.
From Quiz: Lakes of Manitoba
Answer: Canadian Shield
This plateau stretches from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Ocean and is rich in minerals.
From Quiz: Manitoba Quiz
Answer: Portage and Main
Osborne and Corydon is known as Confusion Corner because of its weird traffic light system and diagonal crossings. Portage and Main is a very famous and well known intersection.
From Quiz: Around Winnipeg
Answer: World War II prisoner of war camp
The P.O.W. camp at Whitewater Lake housed about 450 German prisoners in the minimum security camp. Guards were unarmed and the prisoners were rumoured to have often slipped away to local dances in nearby communities and to have worked for local farmers. Remnants of the camp can be still be seen.
From Quiz: Riding Mountain National Park
Answer: Manipogo
With documented sightings since the early 1900's, Lake Manitoba's monster resembles other "lake monsters". The most famous lake monster is, of course, Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster. North American lake monsters include Ogopogo in British Columbia's Okanagan Lake and Champ in Lake Champlain in the Quebec-New York-Vermont area. As with other lake monsters, lacking conclusive evidence, the legend of the Manipogo monster prevails. Manipogo Provincial Park contains a campground, boat launch, and beach, as well as places to witness garter snake migrations.
From Quiz: Magical, Mystical Manitoba Moments
Answer: Dauphin
Dauphin was the title given to the king's eldest son, the heir to the throne of France. The city of Dauphin is located in the Parkland area of Manitoba. When entering Dauphin from the south, one is greeted by a statute of the beaver, Amisk. The 11,000-seat amphitheatre located south of Dauphin on the edge of the Riding Mountain is Selo Ukaina, home to Canada's National Ukrainian Festival and CountryFest, as well the Ukrainian Heritage Village museum.
(Ste. Rose du Lac and Laurier are both French communities located east of Dauphin.)
From Quiz: Magnificent Manitoba Towns
Answer: Altona
Altona is also home to the Largest Painting on an Easel...a giant replica of Vincent Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'. This city is 133 km north of Grand Forks, North Dakota.
From Quiz: Mostly Southern Manitoba
Answer: Falcon Lake
The Falcon Lake Resort is open year-round with ski trails in the winter. There is also a very fine golf course nearby. The beauty of the Canadian Shield draws many people to the region.
From Quiz: Lakes of Manitoba
Answer: Flin Flon
Josiah Flintabbety Flonatin was the character in the book found and read by Tom Creighton, a prospector in the area.
From Quiz: Manitoba Quiz
Answer: Bison
While the Riding Mountain area hosts a wide variety of wildlife, there is no record of rattlesnakes in the area. The Lake Audy bison enclosure contains about thirty animals in 500 hectares. Animals such as deer, bear, fox, and coyotes can get in and out of holes in the enclosure which are too small for bison to slip through. Wolves, though naturally predators of bison, do not go near the man-made structure.
From Quiz: Riding Mountain National Park
Answer: Grand Beach
In addition to its impressive beach, Grand Beach Provincial Park contains active sand dunes, a jack pine forest, a spruce bog, marshland, as well as opportunities for campers, cottagers, and hikers. Historical attractions from its earlier glory days included a boardwalk, dance hall, hotel, bath house, a carousel, refreshment stands, and the Grand Beach Train Station, which was, for many years, the only way to access the area.
From Quiz: Magical, Mystical Manitoba Moments
Answer: Winnipeg
Winnipeg means "muddy waters" and was a place frequented by aboriginal people for thousands of years. Winnipeg was the site of Fort Rouge (1783), Fort Gibraltar (1809), Fort Douglas (1812), and Fort Garry (1822). The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company competed during the fur-trade, and in 1869 to 1870, the Red River Rebellion, led by Louis Riel, resulted in the formation of the province of Manitoba. Today "The Forks" of the Red and Assiniboine rivers are a wonderful place to tour, shop, and enjoy a variety of entertainment.
From Quiz: Magnificent Manitoba Towns
Answer: Carman
Belfour is a goalie who has played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Dallas Stars, the San Jose Sharks, and the Chicago Blackhawks. He is still playing, as of 2006. Carman is 70 km from the city of Winnipeg.
From Quiz: Mostly Southern Manitoba
Answer: Lake Agassiz
With the end of the ice age and the receding of the glaciers, Manitoba was left with a rugged landscape of pre-Cambrian rock outcroppings, over 100,000 lakes to the north, and a long shallow river valley with prime farmland in the south.
From Quiz: Lakes of Manitoba
Answer: oil
Virden is in southwestern Manitoba.
From Quiz: Manitoba Quiz
Answer: The Golden Boy
The Golden Boy is over 17 feet tall and located 255 feet off the ground. He has a sheaf of wheat in one hand and a torch in the other.
From Quiz: Around Winnipeg
Answer: Tuberculosis
The presence of bovine tuberculosis in the elk and deer in Riding Mountain has been prominent in 1991, 1997, and 2001. Reports in 2003 called for culling of elk to keep the population at about 2500 animals until bovine tuberculosis was eradicated in the Riding Mountain area. Bovine tuberculosis is not naturally found in elk and deer and was likely introduced from contact with domestic livestock. Bovine tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease which often infects the lungs. The bacteria is easily airborne during normal respiration, coughing and sneezing. When animals share feed and water, they can easily infect each other. Tuberculosis has periodically required the destruction of the park's bison herd, as well.
(Source: House of Commons Canada, "Bovine Tuberculosis in the Immediate Vicinity of Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba", Report of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, April 2003.)
From Quiz: Riding Mountain National Park
Answer: Whiteshell
"Whiteshell" was named for the sacred white megis shells that, to the Anishinabe people, symbolize Creation and the path of life. Today, some Aboriginal people leave offerings amongst the boulder snakes, turtles and other figures that are found at Bannock Point, where it is still believed that the spirits will teach those are willing to learn. Archaeological evidence in the park shows that groups would gather to harvest the area's resources and to conduct religious ceremonies. "The Whiteshell" now contains cottages, resorts, campgrounds, beaches, trails, and lakes for fishing, boating, and fishing. West Hawk Lake, Manitoba's deepest at about 360 feet, was formed by a meteorite impact and is just one of 200 lakes in Whiteshell Provincial Park.
From Quiz: Magical, Mystical Manitoba Moments
Answer: Flin Flon
Located by the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border, the town of Flin Flon was named when prospector Tom Creighton found a vein of copper which reminded him of the book, "The Sunless City" by J.E. Preston Muddock in which the character Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin discovers a hole lined with gold at the bottom of a lake. The Saskatchewan side of the town is named after Creighton himself.
From Quiz: Magnificent Manitoba Towns
Answer: Dauphin
Dauphin was founded in 1898. It is home to the Canadian Ball Hockey League team, the Dauphin Professionals. Dauphin is in the Parkland region, right beside Riding Mountain National Park.
From Quiz: Mostly Southern Manitoba
Answer: Lake Manitoba
At approximately 51 degrees north, Lake Manitoba narrows to a distance where it can be crossed by a bridge. Fittingly, the crossing is called 'The Narrows.'
From Quiz: Lakes of Manitoba
Answer: Lake Winnipeg
Covering 9460 sq. miles, it drains into Hudson Bay.
From Quiz: Manitoba Quiz
Answer: Clear Lake
Clear Lake is the largest lake in Riding Mountain Park. The lake is popular for its beaches, boating, fishing, water sports, and the trails that meander along its shoreline.
From Quiz: Riding Mountain National Park
Answer: Bakers Narrows
Concealed in a boreal and mixed forest, Bakers Narrows Provincial Park, by Lake Athapapuskow, is renowned for some of the best fishing in Manitoba. It also has a scenic tower, a campground, playground, and swimming for anglers and their families.
From Quiz: Magical, Mystical Manitoba Moments
Answer: Brandon
Located on the banks of the Assiniboine River in South-West Manitoba, Brandon is the second largest city in the province. The Brandon Wheat Kings play in Canada's Western Hockey League while the Brandon University Bobcats compete in such sports as basketball and volleyball. The city hosts the week-long Royal Manitoba Winter Fair in March, as well as a summer fair in June and the Manitoba Livestock Expo in November.
From Quiz: Magnificent Manitoba Towns
Answer: Fisher Branch
The name was changed to Fisher Branch because it was beside a branch of the Fisher River.
From Quiz: Mostly Southern Manitoba
Answer: Dauphin
Although known for its Ukranian heritage, the name of the city (and lake) comes from the French. It translates as 'young royalty.' Thus the aptly named local hockey team: The Dauphin Kings.
From Quiz: Lakes of Manitoba
Answer: Baldy Mountain
All of the given answer options are peaks in Manitoba. Baldy Mountain is in the Duck Mountains, northwest of the City of Dauphin. Hart Mountain is in the Porcupine Mountains near Swan River and the Saskatchewan border. It is Manitoba's second-tallest mountain at 789 m. Knob Hill comes in third at 774 m and is located near Virden. At 709 m, Riding Mountain is actually only Manitoba's tenth-tallest mountain, but is perhaps the most well known, as it is also the name of Manitoba's only National Park.
From Quiz: Manitoba - The Keystone Province