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quotes.push("Cities in Manitoba with more than 10,000 people are Brandon, Thompson, Portage la Prairie, and Steinbach");

quotes.push("Lake Winnipeg is the 11th largest lake in the world and the tenth largest freshwater lake");

quotes.push("Around 12% of Canadian farmland is in Mantioba");

quotes.push("The three largest rivers in Manitoba are the Churchill River, Nelson River, and Hayes River. They all flow into Hudson Bay");

quotes.push("One-fourth of the land in Manitoba is covered with forest");

quotes.push("Manitoba became Canada's fifth province on July 15, 1870");

quotes.push("Baldy Mountain is the highest point in Manitoba at 832m (2,727 ft) above sea level and the Hudson Bay coast is the lowest at sea level");

quotes.push("Manitoba has a population of 1,182,921 (2007)");

quotes.push("Manitoba is located at the longitudinal centre of Canada");

quotes.push("Manitoba's lakes cover approximately 14.5% or 94,241 sq km of its surface area");

quotes.push("The most common type of farm found in rural Manitoba is: cattle farming (34.6%) followed by other grains (19.0%) and oilseed (7.9%)");

quotes.push("Forests make up about 26.3 million hectares (or 48%) of the province's 54.8 million hectare land area");

quotes.push("Some of the largest and intact boreal forest of the world can be found along the east side of Lake Winnipeg");

quotes.push("Most rivers and water in Manitoba eventually flow north, not south or east as is commonly assumed, and empty into Hudson Bay");

quotes.push("The World's Largest Smoking Pipe is located in St. Claude. This functioning pipe is 6m long and 1.5m high. ");

quotes.push("Over 20 species of bird nest or pass through Churchill on their migrations");

quotes.push("Manitoba's first producing oil well was drilled 14 km west of Virden by California Standard in 1951");

quotes.push("The largest variety of semi-precious stones in North America can be found at the Souris agate pit");

quotes.push("Turtle Mountain Provincial Park got its name from the western painted turtle found among the park's 400 bodies of water");

quotes.push("Oak Hammock Marsh is recognized as one of the best bird viewing Wildlife Management areas in North America");

quotes.push("The cattle capital of Manitoba is Ste. Rose du Lac");

quotes.push("Gimli is the largest Icelandic community in Manitoba");

quotes.push("St. Andrews Lock and Dam was opened in Lockport in 1910 by Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier");

quotes.push("Canadian author Margaret Laurence is from Neepawa");

quotes.push("Manitoba's first concrete hydro electric dam was built at Pinawa in 1906");

quotes.push("Portage La Prairie's name goes back to La Verendrye's days when it was a portage resting area between the Assiniboine River and Lake Manitoba");

quotes.push("Lower Fort Garry is the oldest stone fur trading post still intact in North America");

quotes.push("Manitoba was once dubbed the -postage stamp- province because the northern boundry was near Oak Point giving the province its shape");

quotes.push("The Oak Point Trail located near Grosse Isle was created by the cattle drives of the Hudson's Bay Company");

quotes.push("Manitoba gets it's name from Manitobau, a Cree word meaning the Narrows of the Great Spirit, and derived from the sound made by water crashing on the rocks of the narrows of Lake Manitoba");

quotes.push("A notable feature of East Blue Lake and others in Duck Mountain Provincial Park is that they are so clear that the bottom is visible at 9 to 12 m.");

quotes.push("Manitoba's three largest lakes are - Winnipeg (24,390 sq km), Winnipegosis (5,374 sq km), and Manitoba (4,659 sq km");

quotes.push("The Delta Marsh, at 45,000 acres, is one of the largest waterfowl staging marshes in North America and a world renowned wetland");

quotes.push("The deepest lake in Manitoba is West Hawk Lake at 111m/365 feet");

quotes.push("Canada's longest, free suspension bridge is in Souris");

quotes.push("The first trading post established in Manitoba was Fort York in 1612");

quotes.push("Spirit Sands is a desert like area in Spruce Woods Provincial Park");

quotes.push("Whiteshell Provincial Park contains 200 lakes");

quotes.push("West Hawk Lake, Manitoba's deepest lake, was likely formed by a meteorite");

quotes.push("At Grand Beach there are sand dunes that are as high as 30 ft");

quotes.push("The Northern Prairie Skink is Manitoba's only lizard");

quotes.push("Near Narcisse thousands of red-sided garter snakes emerge from limestone sinkholes and tangle in a mating ritual every April and May");

quotes.push("The greatest recorded flood in the history of Manitoba occured in 1826 and almost destroyed the Selkirk settlement");

quotes.push("The Anson Northup becomes the first steamboat on the Red River in 1859");

quotes.push("The first session of the first Manitoba Legislature opened in 1871");

quotes.push("The first public school in Winnipeg opened in 1871");

quotes.push("The first telegram to be sent from Manitoba was in 1871");

quotes.push("The Manitoba Free Press (now the Winnipeg Free Press) started publishing in 1872");

quotes.push("Winnipeg's first civic election was in 1874");

quotes.push("The first Mennonites arrived to Manitoba from Russia in 1874");

quotes.push("The first Icelandic settlers arrived in Manitoba in 1875");

quotes.push("The first wheat shipped out of Manitoba was in 1876");

quotes.push("In 1877 the first railway locomotive arrives in St. Boniface");

quotes.push("The first telephone was installed in Winnipeg in 1877");

quotes.push("Manitoba's first electric light appears on Main St. in Winnipeg in 1882");

quotes.push("Winnipeg's first electric street cars start running in 1892");

quotes.push("The first boat passes through the St. Andrew's Lock in 1910");

quotes.push("The Winnipeg Floodway was offically opened in 1966");

quotes.push("The first horse-drawn streetcar appears on Winnipeg streets in 1881");

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