Manitoba 150

• Manitoba announces endowment fund for Upper Fort Garry park

  The Upper Fort Garry Provincial Park Endowment Fund is intended to keep the downtown Winnipeg site of the former Hudson Bay Company trading post maintained for Manitobans.

  Politics

  Oct 27, 2021
  
• Seven local museums get Manitoba 150 funding to help preserve province’s history

  Seven Manitoba museums will receive a share of $166,600 in provincial funding to help capture and preserve the province's history.

  Politics

  Sep 20, 2021
  
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• Concert celebrates 150th anniversary of Manitoba joining Confederation

  Fourteen months after it was originally scheduled, the Unite 150 concert got underway Saturday afternoon, after being postponed multiple times due to the pandemic.

  Canada

  Aug 28, 2021
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• Pair of concerts at Shaw Park will celebrate Manitoba’s 150th

  The two Aug. 28 concerts — one in the afternoon, one in the evening — feature the previously announced headlines Bachman Cummings, as well as many other local stars.

  Entertainment

  Jul 28, 2021
• Date of Manitoba’s official ‘birthday’ debatable, but importance of province’s history is not

  Traditionally, May 12 has been celebrated as Manitoba Day, but July 15 is the date the province was officially incorporated into Confederation.

  Jul 15, 2020
• Bank building at Portage and Main to become Métis Nation Heritage Centre

  The Bank of Montreal on the southeast corner of Portage and Main will soon be home to the Métis Nation Heritage Centre.

  Canada

  May 12, 2020
• Happy birthday, Manitoba: Snowbirds fly over province as present for 150th

  Southern Manitoba kept their heads in the clouds Tuesday - the snowbirds did their flyby as a present for the province's 150th birthday.

  Canada

  May 12, 2020
• Gimli Film Festival soliciting historical home videos for new Manitoba archive

  The Gimli Film Festival is offering to digitize Manitobans' old home videos in return for those videos being submitted to its new Manitoba Home Movie Archive.

  Canada

  Mar 31, 2020
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• Bachman Cummings to headline concert to mark Manitoba 150

  Two legendary Winnipeg rockers will help Manitoba mark its 150th birthday this summer.

  Feb 21, 2020
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• Archives of Manitoba looking for help sharing province’s 150 years of history

  The archives want Manitobans to help pick which records are used and which stories are told to mark the province's 150th birthday.

  Jan 28, 2020