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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Amanda Stott

Amanda Stott (born May 6, 1982) is a Canadian singer and songwriter from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

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Andrew Unger

Andrew Unger (born November 8, 1979) is a Canadian novelist and satirist.

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Andrews Field (baseball)

Andrews Field, formerly known as Westbran Stadium, is a baseball stadium located in the city of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

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Area codes 204, 431, and 584

Area codes 204, 431, and 584 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of Manitoba.

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Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba

The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (AGSM) is a contemporary art museum in Brandon, Manitoba.

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Art Ross

Arthur Howey Ross (January 13, 1885 – August 5, 1964) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive from 1905 until 1954.

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Aspen parkland refers to a very large area of transitional biome between prairie and boreal forest in two sections, namely the Peace River Country of northwestern Alberta crossing the border into British Columbia, and a much larger area stretching from central Alberta, all across central Saskatchewan to south central Manitoba and continuing into small parts of the US states of Minnesota and North Dakota.

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Assiniboine College (ACC) is a Canadian community college in the province of Manitoba.

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Assiniboine River

The Assiniboine River (Rivière Assiniboine) is a river that runs through the prairies of Western Canada in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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Assiniboine River fur trade

Fur trading on the Assiniboine River and the general area west of Lake Winnipeg, in what is now Manitoba, Canada, began as early as 1731.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

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Bill Fairbairn

William John "Bulldog" Fairbairn (born January 7, 1947) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right wing who played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Birdtail Sioux First Nation

Birdtail Sioux First Nation or Chan Kagha Otina Dakhóta Oyáte (also spelt Caƞ Kaġa Dakhóta Oyáte, 'People of the Log Houses') are a Dakota First Nation located approximately 50 km north of Virden, Manitoba.

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Black Canadians

Black Canadians, also known as African Canadians (French: Canadiens Africains) or Afro-Canadians (French: Afro-Canadiens), are Canadians of full or partial sub-Saharan African descent.

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Brad Maxwell

Bradley Robert Maxwell (July 8, 1957 – September 3, 2023) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player renowned as a playmaking defenceman.

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Brandon City Council

The Brandon City Council is the governing body for the city of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

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Brandon Community Sportsplex

The Brandon Community Sportsplex is a multipurpose recreation facility located in the city of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

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Brandon Generating Station

Brandon Generating Station is a natural gas-fired power station owned by Manitoba Hydro, located in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

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Brandon House

Brandon House was the first fur-trading post or posts of the Hudson's Bay Company on the southern prairies, operating from 1793 to 1824 during the Assiniboine River fur trade.

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Brandon Municipal Airport

Brandon Municipal Airport (also known as Brandon Airport or McGill Field) is an airport located north of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

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Brandon Regional Health Centre

Brandon Regional Health Centre is a hospital in Brandon, Manitoba, one of 20 hospitals operated by the Prairie Mountain Health - Santé Prairie Mountain.

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Brandon School Division

The Brandon School Division is a school division in Brandon, Manitoba.

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Brandon Transit

Brandon Transit is the municipally-operated bus service in Brandon, the second largest city in the province of Manitoba, Canada.

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Brandon University

Brandon University is a university located in the city of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, with an enrolment of approximately 3,375 (2020) full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate students.

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Brandon Wheat Kings

The Brandon Wheat Kings are a Canadian major junior ice hockey team based in Brandon, Manitoba.

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Canada Games

The Canada Games (Jeux du Canada) is a multi-sport event held every two years, alternating between the Canada Winter Games and the Canada Summer Games.

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Canada West Universities Athletic Association

Canada West (formally the Canada West Universities Athletic Association or CWUAA) is a regional membership association for universities in Western Canada which assists in co-ordinating competition between their university level athletic programs and providing contact information, schedules, results, and releases about those programs and events to the public and the media.

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Canadian Olympic Curling Trials

The Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, marketed from 2009 through 2017 as the Roar of the Rings, are a quadrennial tournament held by Curling Canada that determines the Canadian men's and women's representatives for curling at the Winter Olympics.

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Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway (Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique), also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881.

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Canadian Prairies

The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada.

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Cando Rail & Terminals

Cando Rail & Terminals Ltd. (Commonly referred to simply as Cando, reporting mark CCGX) is a railroad contractor headquartered in Brandon, Manitoba, founded in 1978 by Gord Peters and Rick Hammond.

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Census geographic units of Canada

The census geographic units of Canada are the census subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada to conduct the country's quinquennial census.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.

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CFB Shilo

Canadian Forces Base Shilo (CFB Shilo; Base des Forces canadiennes Shilo — BFC Shilo) is an operations and training base of the Canadian Armed Forces, located east of Brandon, Manitoba and adjacent to Sprucewoods.

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Charles Hefferon

Charles Archer Hefferon (25 January 1878 – 13 May 1932) was an athlete representing South Africa who competed mainly in the marathon.

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Chinese Canadians

Chinese Canadians are Canadians of full or partial Han Chinese ancestry, which includes both naturalized Chinese immigrants and Canadian-born Chinese.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum

The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is an aviation museum located at Brandon Municipal Airport, Brandon, Manitoba.

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Conservative Party of Canada

The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC; Parti conservateur du Canada, PCC), colloquially known as the Tories, is a federal political party in Canada.

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Continental climate

Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm to hot summers and cold winters).

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Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School

Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School is a secondary school in Brandon, Manitoba.

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Damon Severson

Damon Severson (born August 7, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Dan Halldorson

Daniel Albert Halldorson (April 2, 1952 – November 18, 2015) was a Canadian professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Canadian Tour.

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Daren Millard

Daren Millard (born August 16, 1970 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian sportscaster.

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Dave Burgess (politician)

David K. Burgess (born c. 1959) is a politician in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, who was mayor of the city from 2002 to 2010.

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Demographics of Canada

Statistics Canada conducts a country-wide census that collects demographic data every five years on the first and sixth year of each decade.

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Demonym

A demonym or gentilic is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place.

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Douglas Durkin

Douglas Durkin (9 July 1884 – 4 June 1967) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.

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Douglas Hill

Douglas Arthur Hill (6 April 1935 – 21 June 2007) was a Canadian science fiction author, editor and reviewer.

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Drew Caldwell

Drew Caldwell (born April 10, 1960) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

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East Asian Canadians

East Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to East Asia.

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Edna Mayne Hull

Edna May Hull van Vogt (May 1, 1905 – January 20, 1975) was a Canadian science fiction writer who published under the name E. Mayne Hull.

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English people

The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.

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Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC; Environnement et Changement climatique Canada)Environment and Climate Change Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of the Environment.

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European Canadians

European Canadians or Euro-Canadians, are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the continent of Europe.

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Expedition League

The Expedition League was a collegiate summer baseball league in the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada.

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Filipino Canadians

Filipino Canadians (French; Mga Pilipinong Kanadyense) are Canadians of Filipino descent.

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First Nations in Canada

First Nations (Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.

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Fort Ellice

Fort Ellice was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post that operated from 1794 to 1892.

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Fred Stenson (writer)

Frederick "Fred" Stenson (born December 22, 1951) is a Canadian writer of historical fiction and nonfiction relating to the Canadian West.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French people

The French people (lit) are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.

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Gathie Falk

Gathie Falk is a Canadian painter, sculptor, installation and performance artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Germans

Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.

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Glen Hanlon

Glen A. Hanlon (born February 20, 1957) is a Canadian ice hockey coach, executive and former goaltender.

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Glen Simard

Glen Simard is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 2023 Manitoba general election.

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Grant Jackson (politician)

Grant Jackson is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 2023 Manitoba general election.

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Greg Leskiw

Gregory Leskiw (born 5 August 1946) is a Canadian guitarist best known for playing guitar with the Guess Who from 1970 to 1972.

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Gujarati language

Gujarati (label) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people.

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Hardiness zone

A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants.

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Haroon Siddiqui

Haroon Siddiqui, is an Indo-Canadian newspaper journalist, columnist and editorial page editor emeritus of the Toronto Star.

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HMCS Brandon

Several Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Brandon.

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House of Commons of Canada

The House of Commons of Canada (Chambre des communes du Canada) is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.

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Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada (Peuples autochtones au Canada, also known as Aboriginals) are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada.

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Internment

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges.

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Irish people

Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and culture.

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Israel Idonije

Israel Idonije (born November 17, 1980) is a Nigerian-Canadian former professional football defensive end in the National Football League and actor.

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J. S. Woodsworth

James Shaver Charleston Woodsworth (July 29, 1874 – March 21, 1942) was a Canadian Methodist minister, politician, and labour activist.

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James Duncan McGregor

James Duncan McGregor (August 29, 1860 – March 15, 1935) was a Canadian agricultural pioneer and officeholder.

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James Ehnes

James Ehnes, (born January 27, 1976) is a Canadian concert violinist and violist.

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James McCrae (politician)

James Collus McCrae (born September 19, 1948) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

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Jerry Hemmings

Jerry D. Hemmings (born February 17, 1948) is a former American basketball coach and former professional basketball player.

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Joel Edmundson

Joel Edmundson (born June 28, 1993) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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John Mayhew (cricketer)

John Francis Nicholas Mayhew (6 December 1909 in India – 31 January 1999 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada) was an English cricketer.

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Jordan Martinook

Jordan Martinook (born July 25, 1992) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and alternate captain for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Joseph Donaldson

Joseph Cameron Donaldson (January 12, 1891 – April 27, 1973) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

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Karl Schroeder

Karl Schroeder (born September 4, 1962) is a Canadian science fiction author and a professional futurist.

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Kavavaow Mannomee

Kavavaow Mannomee (also known as Qavavau Manumie) (born September 21, 1958) is an Inuit printmaker who lived and worked in Nunavut.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Keegan Kolesar

Keegan Kolesar (born April 8, 1997) is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Kelsey Mitchell (cyclist)

Kelsey Marie Mitchell (born 26 November 1993) is a Canadian professional track cyclist, most proficient in the sprint event.

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Ken Wregget

Kenneth Lee Wregget (born March 25, 1964) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender.

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Keystone Centre

The Keystone Centre is a multi-purpose facility located in Brandon, Manitoba.

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Kristen Campbell

Kristen Campbell (born November 30, 1997) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for PWHL Toronto of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team.

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Larry Brown (ice hockey)

Larry Wayne Brown (born April 14, 1947) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings.

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Larry Maguire

Larry Maguire (born June 1, 1949) is a politician and activist farmer in Manitoba, Canada.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Latin American Canadians

Latin American Canadians (Canadiens d'Amérique latine; Canadenses da América Latina; Canadienses de América Latina), sometimes also referred to as Spanish Canadians, are Canadians who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America.

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Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (Assemblée législative du Manitoba) is the deliberative assembly of the Manitoba Legislature in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

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Leonard Evans

Leonard Salusbury Evans (August 19, 1929 – January 2, 2016) was a Canadian politician in Manitoba.

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Leslie McDorman

Leslie Hill McDorman (January 19, 1879 – May 19, 1966) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

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List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada

This is a list of the census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census and the 2016 Canadian census.

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List of cities in Manitoba

Manitoba is one of the three Prairie provinces located in Western Canada. Brandon, Manitoba and List of cities in Manitoba are cities in Manitoba.

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List of postal codes of Canada: R

This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is R. Postal codes beginning with R are located within the Canadian province of Manitoba.

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List of regions of Canada

The list of regions of Canada is a summary of geographical areas on a hierarchy that ranges from national (groups of provinces and territories) at the top to local regions and sub-regions of provinces at the bottom.

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Mae Moore

Mae Moore is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Maggie Siggins

Marjorie May "Maggie" Siggins (born 28 May 1942) is a Canadian journalist and writer.

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Manitoba

Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country.

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Manitoba Emergency Services College

The Manitoba Emergency Services College (MESC) is an emergency services training facility located in Brandon, Manitoba.

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Manitoba Hydro

The Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board (La Régie de l’hydro-électricité du Manitoba), operating as Manitoba Hydro, is the electric power and natural gas utility in the province of Manitoba, Canada.

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Martha Ostenso

Martha Ostenso (17 September 1900 – 24 November 1963) was a Norwegian American novelist.

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Matt Calvert

Matthew Dean Calvert (born December 24, 1989) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played for the Columbus Blue Jackets and Colorado Avalanche during his career in the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Métis

The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces.

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Michael Cain

Michael Cain (born April 2, 1966) is a pianist and composer.

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Middle Eastern Canadians

Middle Eastern Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the Middle East, which includes West Asia and North Africa.

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Minnedosa, Manitoba

Minnedosa is a town in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Manitoba situated 50 kilometres (32 mi) north of Brandon, Manitoba on the Little Saskatchewan River.

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Multiracial people

The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.

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Neelin High School

Neelin High School is a high school in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

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New Democratic Party of Manitoba

The New Democratic Party of Manitoba (Nouveau Parti démocratique du Manitoba), also branded as Manitoba's NDP, is a social democratic political party in Manitoba, Canada.

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North Dakota

North Dakota is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.

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Paddle steamer

A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water.

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Palliser's Triangle

Palliser's Triangle (Triangle de Palliser), or the Palliser Triangle, is a semi-arid steppe occupying a substantial portion of the Western Canadian Canadian Prairies, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba, within the Great Plains region.

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Panethnicity

Panethnicity is a political neologism used to group various ethnic groups together based on their related cultural origins; geographic, linguistic, religious, or 'racial' (i.e. phenotypic) similarities are often used alone or in combination to draw panethnic boundaries.

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Plains bison

The plains bison (Bison bison bison) is one of two subspecies/ecotypes of the American bison, the other being the wood bison (B. b. athabascae).

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Polish people

Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.

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Population

Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area.

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Portage la Prairie

Portage la Prairie is a small city in the Central Plains Region of Manitoba, Canada. Brandon, Manitoba and Portage la Prairie are cities in Manitoba and Hudson's Bay Company trading posts.

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Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba (Parti progressiste-conservateur du Manitoba) is a centre-right political party in Manitoba, Canada.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.

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Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba

The Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba is a non-profit organization and an agricultural society in Brandon, Manitoba, that produces several fairs and events in the city, creating a significant economic impact in the region.

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Rapid City, Manitoba

Rapid City is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district that also once held town status in southwest Manitoba, Canada within the Rural Municipality of Oakview.

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Reg Helwer

Reg Helwer is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 2011 election.

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Rick Borotsik

Rick Borotsik (born September 8, 1950) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

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Robert J. Sawyer

Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian and American science fiction writer.

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Robertson College

Robertson College is a private Canadian career training institution headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada.

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Ron Hextall

Ronald Jeffrey Hextall (born May 3, 1964) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender and executive.

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Roy Sydney Baker-Falkner

Roy Sydney Baker-Falkner (3 June 1916 – 18 July 1944) was a Canadian Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm naval aviator and wing leader during the Second World War, who attained the rank of Lieutenant commander.

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Royal Manitoba Winter Fair

Royal Manitoba Winter Fair (RMWF) is an annual agricultural fair near the end of March, hosted by the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba in the Keystone Centre in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

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Russ Ford

Russell William Ford (April 25, 1883 – January 24, 1960) was a Canadian-American professional baseball pitcher.

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Samuel Bronfman

Samuel Bronfman, (February 27, 1889 – July 10, 1971) was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and member of the Canadian Bronfman family.

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Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dakota).

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Scott Gillingham

Scott Gillingham is a Canadian politician who currently serves as the 44th mayor of Winnipeg, being elected on October 26, 2022.

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Scotties Tournament of Hearts

The Scotties Tournament of Hearts (Le Tournoi des Cœurs Scotties; commonly referred to as the Scotties) is the annual Canadian women's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada, formerly called the Canadian Curling Association.

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Scottish people

The Scottish people or Scots (Scots fowk; Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.

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Shari Decter Hirst

Shari Decter Hirst is a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of Brandon, Manitoba, in the 2010 municipal election.

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Shellmouth Reservoir

The Shellmouth Reservoir (also known as Lake of the Prairies) is a man-made reservoir on the Assiniboine River in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Shotgun Jimmie

Shotgun Jimmie is the stage name of Jim Kilpatrick, a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Sioux

The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (Dakota/Lakota: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ /oˈtʃʰeːtʰi ʃaˈkoːwĩ/) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America.

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Sioux Valley Dakota Nation

Sioux Valley Dakota Nation (SVDN) or Wipazoka Wakpa ('Saskatoon River', named for the abundance of Saskatoon bushes along the river) is a Dakota (Sioux) First Nation that resides west of Brandon, Manitoba.

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South Asian Canadians

South Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to South Asia or the Indian subcontinent, which includes the nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Special Olympics Canada

Special Olympics Canada is a national organization founded in 1969 to help people with intellectual disabilities develop self-confidence and social skills through sports training and competition.

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St. Lazare, Manitoba

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St. Matthew's Anglican Cathedral (Brandon, Manitoba)

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Stanley Knowles

Stanley Howard Knowles (June 18, 1908 – June 9, 1997) was a Canadian parliamentarian.

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Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada (StatCan; Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.

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Synchronous condenser

In electrical engineering, a synchronous condenser (sometimes called a syncon, synchronous capacitor or synchronous compensator) is a DC-excited synchronous motor, whose shaft is not connected to anything but spins freely.

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The Brandon Sun

The Brandon Sun is a Monday through Saturday newspaper printed in Brandon, Manitoba.

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The Brier

The Brier (Le Brier), known since 2023 as the Montana's Brier for sponsorship reasons, is the annual Canadian men's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada.

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The Guess Who

The Guess Who were a Canadian rock band formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1965.

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Thomas James (sea captain)

Captain Thomas James (1593–1635) was a Welsh sea captain, notable as a navigator and explorer, who set out to discover the Northwest Passage, the hoped for ocean route around the top of North America to Asia.

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Thomas L. Rosser

Thomas Lafayette "Tex" Rosser (October 15, 1836 – March 29, 1910) was a Confederate major general during the American Civil War, and later a railroad construction engineer and in 1898 a brigadier general of volunteers in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War.

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Tommy Douglas

Thomas Clement Douglas (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971.

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Trade show

A trade show, also known as trade fair, trade exhibition, or trade exposition, is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products and services, meet with industry partners and customers, study activities of competitors, and examine recent market trends and opportunities.

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Trent Frayne

Trent Gardiner Frayne (September 13, 1918 – February 11, 2012) was a Canadian sportswriter whose career stretched over 60 years.

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Turbidity

Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.

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Turk Broda

Walter Edward "Turk" Broda (May 15, 1914 — October 17, 1972) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach.

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U-18 Baseball World Cup

The U-18 Baseball World Cup is the 18-and-under baseball world championship sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) and its successor, the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), and was first held in 1981 in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon,_Manitoba

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