* Monty Hall, the television celebrity who started and hosted the famous game show “Let’s Do It” from 1963 to 1977, comes from cold Winnipeg.
* The 2005 Academy Award winning movie “Capote,” starring Philip Seymore Hoffman, was filmed on location in Winnipeg. Winnipeg seems unlikely to be a film center, but many have been and are in the process of filming in the north-central city of Canada.
* The Manitoba Legislature Building, the seat of the government of Manitoba, is topped by a 17-foot golden statue called “The Golden Boy.” It has been suspended at the top of the legislative tholoma since 1920. The choice of a fully naked statue in a city known for its prolonged cold weather seems a somewhat humorous choice to crown the seat of government.
* Neil Young of the famous rock group Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, reportedly lived in Winnipeg, although he was born in Toronto, Ontario. It is reported that Neil Young was born in Kelvina at Kingsway Ave School, in the southern part of Winnipeg, about guitars< /a> playing in the school halls.
* Winnie the Pooh said by the city of Winnipeg, by a Canadian lieutenant in the Fort Garry Cavalry who acquired the Winnipeg Bear, to Winnie the Pooh was captured by a hunter in 1914.
(Read the origins of Winnie the Pooh here:
* Winnipeg is the Slurpee capital of the world. Citizens of the concrete city of Winnipeg consume an estimated 400,000 Slurpees per month six months of the year. This includes the cold winter months. The author and his family paid attention to this statistic many times even in the winter.
* Crash Test Dummies, a band that came into the public eye in 1980 out of, you guessed it, Winnipeg.
* Canada is the car theft capital of North America. Winnipeg is known as the car theft capital of Canada. When the car thieves were arrested in Winnipeg, she and her hubby were told by the police in Winnipeg that they have about 1,000 cars a month in Winnipeg from car thieves. Many things were carried away by the joy of Atrides. Fortunately, the recovery rate is over 90% for stolen cars. $2,000 dollars worth of damage, towing, storage, repair fees and two weeks of anxiety later, they found out they were actually getting the cars back.
* Terry Fox, a runner and national hero, a true symbol of courage and dignity in the face of adversity, was born in Winnipeg. Terry Fox began running a cross-Canada trunk after recovering from leg cancer. He ran a prosthetic limb. He was featured in a special edition of Canadian coins, known as the Loonie.
Canadian Loonie and Terric Fox: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/298640/end_of_june_marks_20_years_for_canadian.html?cat=3)
* The city of Winnipeg, located in the province of Manitoba, has a population of nearly 70,000. Their supply of drink comes primarily from Ontario, their neighbor to the east. The lake is mainly in Ontario with a small part in Manitoba. Water from Shoal Lake must be sent through pipes over 150 kilometers, about 96 miles, to reach the city of Winnipeg.
There is more to Winnipeg than you know, and many have never even heard of the capital city of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
