Winnipeg Metropolitan Region

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Winnipeg Metropolitan Region
Metropolitan area
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Downtown Winnipeg in 2016
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Red areas are part of the Statistics Canada CMA while green areas show other regions included in the wider WMR.
Country Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Province Flag of Manitoba.svg  Manitoba
Established1998;26 years ago (1998)
Government
 • BodyBoard [1]
 • Co-chairsScott Gillingham and Shelley Hart
Area
[2]
 • Total7,795.96 km2 (3,010.04 sq mi)
Population
 (2021 Census) [3]
 • Total834,678
 • Extended area
39,202
 • Extended area density157.9/km2 (409/sq mi)
 • Combined
873,880
GDP
 • Winnipeg CMA CA$45.0 billion (2020) [4]
Time zone UTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 204, 431
Website winnipegmetroregion.ca

The Winnipeg Metropolitan Region [5] (formerly called the Winnipeg Capital Region and the Manitoba Capital Region) [6] is a metropolitan area in the Canadian province of Manitoba located in the Red River Valley in the southeast portion of the province of Manitoba, Canada. It contains the provincial capital of Winnipeg and 17 surrounding rural municipalities, cities, and towns. [5]

Contents

Other places in the Region besides Winnipeg with a population over 1,000 are the city of Selkirk; towns of Stonewall and Niverville; and communities of Oakbank, Oak Bluff, Stony Mountain, Teulon, and Lorette. As the most densely-populated and economically-important area of Manitoba, the region accounts for two-thirds of the province's population and 70% of the provincial GDP as of 2021. [5]

It also includes the smaller census metropolitan area (CMA) of Winnipeg, with the addition of the Brokenhead 4 Indian Reserve. [7] [8]

History

In the late 1990s, issues such as providing Shoal Lake water to nearby municipalities and allowing exurban housing growth beyond Winnipeg became more important. At the time, Mayor Susan Thompson voiced the idea of a regional planning authority to mediate such issues. [9]

In June 1998, former Great West Life President Kevin Kavanagh was appointed by Premier Gary Filmon to chair the Capital Region Review Committee. [10] The panel looked at land-use planning and economic development between the City of Winnipeg and surrounding municipalities. Thompson along with the mayors and reeves of the 14 municipalities adjacent to Winnipeg began to meet on a regular basis starting in October 1998, thus forming the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region. [11] Due to a change of government in September 1999, however, creating a regional planning authority took longer than originally foreseen.

The Capital Region was originally defined in 2006, through The Capital Region Partnership Act, to include 16 municipalities. [12]

A pro-economic growth planning document was released in November 2018, called Securing Our Future: An Action Plan for Winnipeg's Metropolitan Region. [13]

In October 2019, Dentons released a speech and discussion document, For the Benefit of All: Regional Competitiveness and Collaboration in the Winnipeg Metro Region, [14] which sought to reform regional planning. Upon publication, Premier Brian Pallister and Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman spoke in favour of creating a new entity to manage development and transportation in the Winnipeg Metro Region. [15]

Membership

The Winnipeg Metro Region is located in the Red River Valley in the southeast portion of the province of Manitoba, and is bounded to the north by the south basin of Lake Winnipeg. [6]

The Region was originally defined in The Capital Region Partnership Act (2006) to include 16 municipalities. [12] Since that time, the Town of Niverville and the Village of Dunnottar have been incorporated into the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region, giving the Region 18 municipalities in total.

The Region today comprises the following cities, towns, and RMs: [5]

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An aerial view of Winnipeg.

However, there are some municipalities that are geographically (entirely or largely) within the Region's territory that are not officially part of the Metro Region. These include the town of Teulon, the village of Garson, and the Indian reserve of Brokenhead Ojibway Nation.

Winnipeg census metropolitan area

The Winnipeg Metro Region includes the smaller Winnipeg census metropolitan area (CMA), with the addition of the Brokenhead 4 Indian Reserve. The included CMA municipalities are: [7]

Demographics

Population

The population of the Winnipeg Metro Region is greatly concentrated within the city of Winnipeg itself, which has 86.5% of the Region's population residing in less than 6% of its land area. On the provincial level, the city has 54.9% of the province's population, while the Region's share is 63.5%.

Census area 1991 census 1996 census 2001 census 2006 census 2011 census 2016 census 2021 census
City of Winnipeg [16] [17] 615,215618,477619,544633,451663,617705,244749,607
Winnipeg CMA [8] [18] [19] [20] 660,450672,109676,594694,668730,018778,489834,678
Winnipeg Metropolitan Region [21] [22] [23] 696,453705,806711,455730,305771,616821,537873,880

Ethnicity

Panethnic groups in Metro Winnipeg (2001−2021)
Panethnic
group		2021 [24] [25] 2016 [26] 2011 [27] 2006 [28] 2001 [29]
Pop. %Pop.%Pop.%Pop.%Pop.%
European [lower-alpha 1] 460,240473,360495,445514,715523,405
Indigenous 102,07592,81078,42068,38555,755
Southeast Asian [lower-alpha 2] 94,70081,87563,74042,27535,125
South Asian 63,80538,10023,17515,29512,290
African 40,92027,37517,84014,47511,440
East Asian [lower-alpha 3] 28,52525,27019,37516,72013,470
Middle Eastern [lower-alpha 4] 10,4807,1104,7054,0201,955
Latin American 9,1606,8256,5605,4754,550
Other/Multiracial [lower-alpha 5] 10,5958,8105,3904,6803,735
Total responses819,715761,540714,635686,040661,725
Total population834,678778,489730,018694,668671,274
Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses

Language

The question on knowledge of languages allows for multiple responses.

Knowledge of Languages in Metro Winnipeg
Language 2021 [30] 2011 [27] 2001 [31]
Pop. %Pop.%Pop.%
English 805,680711,285655,360
French 83,36576,76574,460
Tagalog 64,72545,74523,560
Punjabi 40,10512,0106,130
Hindi 23,6706,9003,245
Spanish 16,55013,47510,655
German 15,75523,48528,485
Mandarin 15,2403,5901,490
Ukrainian 9,72013,49020,865
Russian 9,6155,4953,100
Arabic 9,4704,4851,900
Portuguese 8,6056,5957,965
Cantonese 8,1654,3653,025
Urdu 6,2402,3151,115
Polish 6,1457,38011,005
Vietnamese 6,0153,8253,900
Yoruba 5,350————
Italian 4,8605,4406,740
Gujarati 4,2801,310485
Tigrigna 4,1001,010——
Korean 3,9002,660885
Hebrew 3,6902,5751,625
Amharic 3,3701,605——
Ojibway 3,2652,2603,535
Ilocano 3,0151,165——
Swahili 2,7751,200550
Bengali 2,660630275
Serbo-Croatian 2,6302,0853,535
Plautdietsch 2,190————
Cree 1,8051,5552,850
Pampangan
(Kapampangan,
Pampango) 		1,635————
Somali 1,590735——
Dutch 1,5651,9352,980
Iranian
Persian 		1,525————
Greek 1,5001,4351,655
Igbo 1,400————
Cebuano 1,365————
Japanese 1,310860975
Kurdish 1,170265365
Lao 1,1659601,285
Sinhala 1,160535425
Malayalam 1,09531090
Hungarian 1,0351,1401,680
Chinese, n.o.s——6,4305,650
Persian ——1,950810
Total
Responses		819,715714,635661,725
Total
Population		834,678730,018671,274

Governance

Regional partnership is led by a board of governors. As of 2021, board members include: [1]

In addition to those located entirely in the City of Winnipeg, the Region falls into several federal electoral districts:

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 2001-2016: Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.

    2021: Statistic includes all persons belonging to the non-indigenous and non-visible minority “White” population group.
  2. ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
  3. ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
  4. ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
  5. ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority, n.i.e." and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.

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