• The Winnipeg City Council (French: Conseil municipal de Winnipeg) is the governing body of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Council is seated...
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  • The mayor of Winnipeg is a member of Winnipeg City Council, but does not represent a ward. The position of mayor was created in 1873 following the incorporation...
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    Scott Gillingham (category Mayors of Winnipeg)
    Pentecostal pastor before entering politics in 2014 as a member of the Winnipeg City Council. In 2021, he considered running in the 2021 Progressive Conservative...
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    for the City of Transcona met on 19 June 1961, with T. F. Copeland as mayor. Today, the ward is represented by a member of Winnipeg City Council, and the...
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    Winnipeg (/ˈwɪnɪpɛɡ/ ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine...
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    industrial area. The ward is represented by Matt Allard, a member of Winnipeg City Council, and also corresponds to the neighbourhood clusters of St-Boniface...
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    brought economic activity to a standstill in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which at the time was Canada's third largest city. In the short term, the strike ended in...
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    rapidly-growing city of Winnipeg, and incorporated the Winnipeg Street Railway Company. Soon after, upon prodding the begrudged City Council, Austin was able...
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  • Winnipeg into the '90s was an alliance of progressive and left-leaning municipal politicians in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It endorsed several...
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  • Saint-Vital) is a ward and neighbourhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Located in the south-central part of the city, it is bounded on the north by Carrière...
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    built on the future site of Winnipeg in the 1700s, followed by the Selkirk Settlement in 1812. Winnipeg was incorporated as a city in 1873 and experienced...
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    The amalgamation of Winnipeg, Manitoba (also known as Unicity) was the municipal incorporation of the old City of Winnipeg, eleven surrounding municipalities...
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  • Jacob Penner (category Winnipeg city councillors)
    elected to the Winnipeg city council in 1933. He would remain at that post until 1960, becoming the longest serving elected Communist city council member in...
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    A. A. Heaps (category Winnipeg city councillors)
    He was one of the leaders of the Winnipeg general strike of 1919 and was a Labour alderman on the Winnipeg City Council from 1917 to 1925. He ran for the...
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  • The municipal government of Winnipeg is represented by 15 city councillors and a mayor elected every four years. Along with being the current provincial...
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  • John Angus (politician) (category Winnipeg city councillors)
    returned to the Winnipeg City Council in 1992, and continued to serve on that body until 2004. Angus was educated at the University of Winnipeg and the Manitoba...
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  • Charlie Birt (category Winnipeg city councillors)
    to 1984, he was a member of the Winnipeg City Council. He also was a member of the Children's Aid Board of Winnipeg from 1980 to 1983, and served as...
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    Joseph Zuken (category Winnipeg city councillors)
    politician in Winnipeg and the longest serving elected Communist party politician in North America. He served on the Winnipeg city council from 1961 to...
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    the opening of the Winnipeg City Hall, Winnipeg City Council announced that a building would be constructed adjacent to the city hall. In the original...
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  • Harvey Smith (Canadian politician) (category Winnipeg city councillors)
    served on Winnipeg's city council and in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, grew up in Winnipeg and first...
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  • riding of Portage—Neepawa. He later moved to Winnipeg, and served as a member of the Winnipeg City Council from 1955 to 1958. Cowan was first elected to...
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    residential community and neighbourhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is located in the South-West of the city and is bordered by the neighbourhoods Tuxedo...
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    Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (commonly known as Winnipeg International Airport or Winnipeg Airport) (IATA: YWG, ICAO: CYWG)...
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  • Harold Taylor (Canadian politician) (category Winnipeg city councillors)
    Manitoba Liberal Party. In 1983 and 1986, he was elected to the Winnipeg City Council in the Memorial district, as an independent candidate supporting...
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    businessperson, party activist, and former Winnipeg City Council member Terry Duguid. This riding lost territory to Winnipeg South Centre and Saint Boniface—Saint...
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  • Gordon Fines (category Winnipeg city councillors)
    Saskatchewan for eight years. He was elected to the Winnipeg school board in 1947, and to the Winnipeg city council in 1948. Fines also worked for the Canadian...
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  • sought election to the Winnipeg City Council. Note: The 1989 municipal results are based on incomplete totals taken from the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper...
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    James-Assiniboia is a major community area in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. As it encapsulates most of the city ward of St. James, which includes the major...
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  • Gerry Mercier (category Winnipeg city councillors)
    served on the Winnipeg City Council from 1971 to 1977, when he shifted to the provincial scene. On one occasion, he served as Chair of the city's Works and...
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  • Leonard Claydon (category Winnipeg city councillors)
    He was elected to the Winnipeg City Council in the 1960 municipal election, was re-elected four times. He chaired the city's Public Works Committee from...
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