🗺️ Chapter 10: Canada's Regions
What is St. Boniface, Winnipeg's French Quarter, known for?
Correct answer: Western Canada's largest Francophone community
A Canada's largest Ukrainian community
B The RCMP training academy
✓ Western Canada's largest Francophone community
D The headquarters of the mining industry
💡 Explanation
Around 45,000 francophones live there, the biggest such community in western Canada.
Key facts to remember
- Economy: agriculture, mining and hydro-electric power
- Portage and Main in Winnipeg is Canada's most famous intersection
- St. Boniface is Winnipeg's French Quarter
- Western Canada's largest Francophone community (about 45,000 in 2012)
- 14% reported Ukrainian origins (2012 figures)
- An important centre of Ukrainian culture
- Largest Aboriginal population of any province, over 15% (2012 figures)
Why this is the answer
From the official Discover Canada study guide — 10.4.2 Manitoba:
Manitoba earns its living from three main things: agriculture, mining and generating hydro-electric power. Winnipeg is its most populous city. In Winnipeg's Exchange District you find Portage and Main, the most famous street intersection in Canada. The city also has a French Quarter called St. Boniface. Its Francophone community numbers about 45,000, the largest in Western Canada.
Manitoba is also an important centre of Ukrainian culture. In the 2012 figures, 14 percent of the people there reported Ukrainian origins. The province stands out in another way as well. Of all the provinces, it has the largest Aboriginal population, more than 15 percent according to those same figures. So when you think of Manitoba, picture wheat fields and mines, but also a mix of peoples, Ukrainian, French-speaking and Aboriginal, living together in one province.
More questions from this topic
Ready to practice more?
Take a full mock exam with 20 questions - just like the real test.
Take a Practice Test