Manitoba

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A central Canadian province with large flat grasslands

proper noun
/ˌmænɪˈtoʊbə/

: Manitoba

In 1971, the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood and the Manitoba Metis Federation proposed the creation of Native Migration Centres.
Manitoba, Winnipeg
University of Manitoba
Manitoba, Canada

Examples

At the time of the pandemic, the Canadian province of Manitoba was not part of the Canadian vaccine effectiveness monitoring network.

Academic text (2012)
Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.

Turning Red (2022)
What are you doing in Manitoba?

Tusk (2014)
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation in Manitoba wants more accountability for how tax dollars are being spent.

Fiction book (2002)
For the first twenty years of my life the biggest town I ever saw or hoped to see was Nassacity, Manitoba.

Bright Young Things (2003)
Dave was president of the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood in the late 1960s.

Fiction book (2002)
My name is Aline Spears, I am from the Cree Nation in Manitoba, Canada.

Bones of Crows (2023)
As head of the Brotherhood, Dave's mandate was to better the conditions for Manitoba's Indians.

Fiction book (2002)
In fact, Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Motor Coach holds six patents on the various component subsystems of the coach.

Academic text (1998)
You need to go to Manitoba to see this sort of thing.

Surface Forms

Manitoba main

Etymology

Manitoba comes from an Indigenous name made of Manitou 'spirit' and -baa 'water' or 'lake'. It first named a lake or narrow waterway believed to hold a spirit, and that place-name later became the name of the province.