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Demographics: 1,177,765 (in the year 2006)
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| James Chung researching on Manitoba before he makes his wonderful trip for his summer vacation He hopes it would be interesting! |
Official Language: English and French
Manitoba is a province bordered by Saskatchewan, Ontario, Nunavut, and the American states of North Dakota and Minnesota. It is known to have more than 110,000 lakes, which covers 15.6% of the whole province. Its economy depends mainly on their agriculture, and other major industries such as transportation, manufacturing, mining, forestry, energy, and tourism. This province was where the red river settlements occured and has a history of Louis Riel and his execution. Manitoba was the 5th to join the confederation on July 15, 1870.
Since I am planning to make a trip in the summer, I researched about the climate of Manitoba. In July, the temperature ranges from 26 degrees Celcius in the day to 9 degrees celcius at night. At the lower part of the province, tornadoes occur approximately once every year, causing problems damaging properties. In 2007, on June 22nd, a tornado hit Manitoba Ellie damaging structures costing $39 million.This was the strongest tornado in North America since 1999. Amazing!
The forests make up 48% of the whole province land area, containing trees such as
"pines (mostly Jack Pine, some Red Pine), spruces (white, black), larch, poplars (Trembling Aspen, balsam poplar), birch (white, swamp) and small pockets of Eastern White Cedar(wikipedia)."
Now I should start on my journey!
