Gilbert Plains Station

	Gilbert Plains Station Gilbert Plains station is a flag stop located in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, Canada. The station is served by Via Rail's Winnipeg – Churchill train Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 .... Footnotes External links Via Rail Station Information {{DEFAULTSORT:Gilbert Plains Railways Station Via Rail stations in Manitoba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Winnipeg – Churchill Train Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it the sixth-largest city, and eighth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for "muddy water" - “winipīhk”. The region was a trading centre for Indigenous peoples long before the arrival of Europeans; it is the traditional territory of the Anishinabe (Ojibway), Ininew (Cree), Oji-Cree, Dene, and Dakota, and is the birthplace of the Métis Nation. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River Colony in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. Being far inland, the local c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gilbert Plains, Manitoba Gilbert Plains is an unincorporated urban community in the Gilbert Plains Municipality, Manitoba, Canada, that was classified as a List of towns in Manitoba, town prior to January 1, 2015. It is situated on the Valley River (Manitoba), Valley River, in the Parkland Region between Riding Mountain National Park and Duck Mountain Provincial Park (Manitoba), Duck Mountain Provincial Park. Gilbert Plains was featured during season 3 of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC program ''Still Standing (Canadian TV series), Still Standing''. The episode originally aired on September 5, 2017. History Municipal corporation, Incorporated in 1906, the original townsite was some miles to the south. The community was named for Gilbert Ross, a Métis people (Canada), Métis man who was living in the region when the first European ethnic groups, European settler, Glenlyon Campbell, arrived. On 1 January 2015, the Town of Gilbert Plains relinquished its town status when it amalgamated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]