Downtown Winnipeg

Home to 740,000 people, Winnipeg is a culturally diverse mid-sized city represented by 100 ethnic groups speaking 80 different languages.

Winnipeg is a city where people truly can experience a wide array of world-class arts and culture on every corner. That's also true for cuisine: Winnipeg has over 1,100 globally inspired restaurants.

Winnipeg, called the “Heart of the Continent,” is the largest city in Manitoba. By comparison, there are over 5 million people living in greater Toronto area and just over 2 million people living in the greater Vancouver area. Winnipeg has all the perks of a big city without being crowded or noisy or polluted.

Winnipeg has many exciting, vibrant neighbourhoods to choose from, with many beautiful older and newer houses surrounded by large trees. The price of a home varies depending on the area of the city, but all sell for well below the national average price - and much, much lower than Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto.

Links

Economic Development Winnipeg
This website has in-depth information on living and working in Winnipeg, about the economy, its strategic sectors and performance, about the workforce as well as about city infrastructure and services.

Winnipeg ethnocultural neighbourhoods
This City of Winnipeg webpage is a map of neighbourhoods that shows census information including languages spoken and countries of origin of residents.

Did you know?

• Winnipeggers don’t have to drive a long distance in heavy traffic to get to work. The average commute from home to work is 6.1 kilometres on average.
• The following people were born or live (or have lived) in Winnipeg: musician Neil Young, six-time Olympic medalist Cindy Klassen, singer Burton Cummings (of the Guess Who), Oscar-winning actress Anna Paquin, scholar Marshall McLuhan, wrestler Chris Jericho, sculptor Leo Mol, novelist Carol Shields and more.
• Winnie the Pooh, the creation of British author A.A. Milne, is named after a black bear from Canada that ended up at the London Zoo. Named Winnipeg, Milne’s son Christopher Robin had a fondness for the bear – hence the name Winnie.
  
• Winnipeg was once called the “Chicago of the north” due to its history as a transportation hub. The downtown architecture, much of which is from the early 1900s, also looks like Chicago’s. Winnipeg has doubled as Chicago in films such as Shall We Dance (starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez), as well as Kansas (The Lookout starring Jeff Daniels, and Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman) and 19th century Colorado (The Assassination of Jesse James starring Brad Pitt).
• Winnipeg has the most days of sunshine of any city in Canada.
• Winnipeg is home to the most restaurants per capita in North America.
• Winnipeg is home to the longest continual ice skating rink in the world. Created every winter on the Assiniboine River, the rink is over 8 kilometres long.