Sites |
Location |
Year |
First |
Buffalo Point Museum and Government Centre |
Buffalo Point First Nation |
1997 |
First Indigenous historical museum in Manitoba |
Gainsborough Apartments |
508 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg |
1931 |
Western Canada's first rooftop garden |
First Airmail Flight in Manitoba |
Lac du Bonnet |
1927 |
First airmail service in Canada authorized by the Canada Post Office |
First Grandview Home Monument |
Municipality of Grandview |
1890 |
Site of the first pioneer home in the municipality |
First Grandview Sod Turning Monument |
Municipality of Grandview |
1890 |
Site of the first breaking of sod in the municipality |
First Helicopter Monument |
Homewood, RM of Dufferin |
1930s |
First helicopter flown in Canada |
First Homestead in Western Canada |
RM of Portage la Prairie |
1872 |
Homestead of John Sutherland Sanderson, first registered in western Canada |
First Icelandic Birth in Western Canada |
RM of Gimli |
1875 |
Birthplace of Jon Olafur Johannson, first child of Icelandic descent born in western Canada |
First Masonic Lodge Plaque |
191 Lombard Avenue, Winnipeg |
1864 |
Site of first Masonic Lodge in the Red River Settlement |
First Railway in Western Canada Plaque |
Dominion City, Municipality of Emerson-Franklin |
1878 |
Completion of the Pembina Branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway |
First Reston School Plaque |
Reston, RM of Pipestone |
1893 |
First school in the new community of Reston |
First School in Winnipeg |
39 Maple Street, Winnipeg |
1871 |
First public schoolhouse in Winnipeg |
W. D. Halliday - First Homesteader |
RM of Lac du Bonnet |
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Manitoba’s First Explorers |
Boissevain, Municipality of Boissevain-Morton |
11,000 years ago |
Aboriginal people who entered the region from the south |