MANITOBA

HISTORY

• In 1881, after years of political wrangling with the federal government, the boundaries were extended to their present western position, as well as being extended farther east.

HISTORY

• The First World War was a particularly difficult period for the Eastern European immigrants who had come to Manitoba in the previous two decades, particularly the Ukrainians whose homeland was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with which Canada was at war.

HISTORY

• In the midst of the First World War, on 28 January 1916, Manitoba became the first province to grant women the right to vote and hold political office provincially

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