1
In 1916, Manitoba was the first province to
grant women the right to vote in provincial
elections and the right to sit in the provincial
legislature, mainly to the credit of suffragette
and social advocate Nellie McClung.
2
The town of St. Laurent, along the southern tip of Lake
Manitoba, received international recognition by the
Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. for preserving the
traditional Michif language of the Métis people which has been
passed down through five generations.
3
The Falcon Lake Incident is one of the world's best
documented cases of human contact with a UFO. It happened
in Manitoba's Whiteshell Provincial Park on May 20, 1967, when
prospector Stefan Michalak claimed a colourful object descended
and expelled gas that burned him. Despite intense investigations,
no evidence was found disproving his story.
4
In 1970, "American Woman" was the No. 1-selling single in
the world. Winnipeg rock 'n' rollers The Guess Who penned
the tune and went on to become one of Canada's largest cultural
exports. That year, they sold more albums than any other band in
the world.
5
One of Winnipeg's most famous
residents is William Stephenson,
the international spy named Intrepid
who was the real-life inspiration behind
novelist Ian Fleming's suave fictional spy
hero and Hollywood icon James Bond.
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