Fun with Maps ISSUE 2025-085

By Steve Kovacs (Introduction by Chuck Gibson)

LOVELAND, OH (May 12, 2025) – In today’s edition of Fun with Maps, we visit what many may call The Great White North in Canada.

Manitoba

Manitoba became a Canadian province on May 12, 1870.

To many the big cities of Toronto and Montreal represent Canada.  Then there are the Rockies mostly housed in British Columbia, and the Maritimes north of Maine.

But there is a vast plain, continuing into the US Plains, in the middle, extending from western Ontario to eastern Alberta.  It is about the centered in Manitoba.

Manitoba features thousands of lakes, remnants of the last ice age, which ended ca. 10 thousand years ago.

Modern Manitoba relies on agriculture, oil, mining and tourism to drive the economy.

Here is a map of Canada, British Columbia, then, from 1898 by Rand McNally.  It shows a smaller Manitoba vs. today’s.

Steve Kovacs and his wife Theresa reside in Loveland, Ohio where they raised their two children. He is a passionate collector of antique maps.

Visit his antique map boutique world-on-paper online. Watch for his daily feature Steve Kovacs: Fun with Maps here on Loveland Beacon.