Manitoba boasts authors Carol Shields, Margaret Laurence, Miriam Toews, Patrick Friesen and Gabrielle Roy.ģ8) The inspiration for James Bond was famous WWII spymaster Sir William Stephenson, who happened to be born and raised in Winnipeg.ģ9) Bobby Hull of the Winnipeg Jets was hockey’s first million dollar player.Ĥ0) St. The world knows Susan Auch (speed skater), Clara Hughes (cyclist and speed skater), Cindy Klassen (speed skater), Jennifer Jones (curling) and many more – all from Manitoba.ģ7) We have literary talent too. Guy Maddin is arguably our most famous contribution to the directing/producing realm.ģ6) Olympians? Yep, we have them. We call him Bruce!ġ8) The world’s largest trilobite known as Isotelus rex was discovered in northern Manitoba can be seen at the Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg.ġ9) The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is the first national museum to be built outside of Canada's capital region.Ģ0) Lower Fort Garry was the first training base for the North West Mounted Police.ģ4) Manitoba has produced famous musicians such as Neil Young, Burton Cummings/The Guess Who, Randy Bachman/Bachman Turner Overdrive, Chantal Kreviazuk, The Weakerthans, Crash Test Dummies, Tom Cochrane, Bif Naked, Fred Penner, Bob Rock and Al Simmons.ģ5) The big screen has been graced by Manitoba-born actors such as Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Adam Beach (Flags of Our Fathers, Suicide Squad) and Anna Paquin (X-Men, True Blood). Winnipeg is the Cree word for Muddy Waters.ġ6) The Exchange District is a National Historic Site spanning 30 blocks in Winnipeg's downtown, showcasing turn-of-the-twentieth-century architecture that is unrivaled in Canada.ġ7) The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden has the largest collection of prehistoric marine fossils in North America, including the world’s largest publicly displayed Mosasaur. They were later joined by the Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) and the Dakota (Sioux). 1From the Department of Human Genome and Multifactorial Disease, Istituto di Tecnologie, Biomediche Avanzate, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Segrate (MI) Istituto di Medicina Molecolare “Angelo Nocivelli,” and Clinica Pediatrica, Universita di Brescia, Italy Children's Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne University of Manchester, Academic Unit of Child Health, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom Department of Pediatrics, The National Hospital, Oslo, Norway Lauterberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden Department of Pediatrics and Ulm Germany Transfusion Medicine, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany Pediatric Immunology, Mother and Child Health Institute, Belgrade, Yugoslavia University Childrens' Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Institute of Medical Technology, University of Tampere, and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland Department of Pediatrics, Child Health Research Center, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX Department of Immunology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN Immunobiology Center and Ruttenberg Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University, New York, NY Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Division of Hematology/Oncology/Immunology, Children's Cancer Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX Pediatric Rheumatology Division, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA and Health Sciences Center, University of Manitoba, Canada.15) The earliest inhabitants of the area were Indigenous peoples from two nations: the Ne-hiyawak (Cree) and the Nakotas (Assiniboin).
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