Norway House
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 Norway House (1878) |
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| Location in Manitoba | |||
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| Province : | Manitoba | ||
| Region: | Northern region | ||
| Coordinates : | 53 ° 58 ′ N , 97 ° 50 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 223 m | ||
| Area : | 188.38 km² | ||
| Residents : | 5360 (as of 2016) | ||
| Population density : | 28.5 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Central Time ( UTC − 6 ) | ||
| Website : | www.norwayhousecc.ca | ||
| Norway House National Historic Site of Canada Lieu historique national du Canada Norway House |
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 Lieu patrimonial du Canada |
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| Recognized since | May 30, 1932 |
| Type | National Historic Site of Canada |
| ID | 12041 |
| Recognized by | Canadian Federal Government |
| Approved by | Historic Sites and Monuments Act |
| Entry Canadian List of Monuments | |
Norway House is a settlement with around 5,400 inhabitants about 30 km north of Lake Winnipeg on the banks of the eastern canal of the Nelson River in the Canadian province of Manitoba . The settlement is in the Census Division No. 22 , which belongs to the Northern Region . Norway House also owns a First Nations Indian reservation from the Kinosao Sipi Cree Nation, which is why the community is headed by both a mayor and a tribal leader. The economic basis of the community is made up of fishing , fur trade and logging . Depending on the season, unemployment is up to 70%.
history
The place was created after Thomas Douglas commissioned a group of Norwegian settlers in 1816 to build a road from the York Factory to Lake Winnipeg and to set up a number of supply posts on this.
Norway House was originally a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company and for a long time its most important post in the North American inland. Between the 1820s and the 1840s, the York Factory Express , a Hudson's Bay Company trade route between the York Factory on Hudson Bay and Fort Vancouver in the Columbia District , passed the place. In the 19th century, important decisions of the company were made in local council meetings until 1869 whose territories were sold to the Canadian Dominion , the forerunner of today's Canada. With the subsequent settlement of the northern prairie , the fur trade lost its importance, and with it Norway House.
Formerly the most important inland depot of the Hudson's Bay Company and the place where the Treaty No. 5 signed treaty between the British Crown and 38 First Nations, were declared a National Historic Site of Canada on May 30, 1932 .
Demographics
The census in 2016 showed a population of 433 inhabitants for the municipality, after the census in 2011 showed a population of 461 inhabitants for the municipality. The population has decreased by 6.1% compared to the last census in 2011 and thus developed against the provincial average with a population increase of 5.8%.
The census for the Indian reservation from the same year resulted in a population of 4,927 inhabitants, after the census in 2011 for the reservation still showed a population of 4,758 inhabitants. While the population in the village decreased, the number of inhabitants in the reserve increased by 3.6% compared to the last census in 2011 and thus developed similar to the provincial average with a population increase of 5.8%.
traffic
The settlement is only connected to the rest of the province by Manitoba Provincial Road 374 , an all-weather road which branches off from Manitoba Highway 6 , which is about 130 km away . Southwest of the settlement is the local airfield ( IATA airport code : YNE, ICAO code : CYNE, Transport Canada Identifier: -). The airfield only has a short gravel runway of 1,189 meters in length.
Daughters and sons of the city
- Tina Keeper (born 1962), actress
- Helen Betty Osborne (1952–1971), murder victim
Web links
- Website of the Cree from Norway House
- Norway House ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
Individual evidence
- ^ Norway House National Historic Site of Canada. In: Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved July 27, 2020 (English).
- ^ Norway House Community Profile (Northern community). Census 2016. In: Statistics Canada . August 9, 2019, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
- ^ Norway House Community Profile (Indian reserve). Census 2016. In: Statistics Canada . August 9, 2019, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Airport diagram. (PDF; 76.5 MB) In: NAV CANADA . Retrieved July 27, 2020 (English).