Portage la Prairie

Portage la Prairie
Location in Manitoba
	Portage la Prairie
	Portage la Prairie
State :	Canada
Province :	Manitoba
Region:	Central Plains Region
Coordinates :	49 ° 58 ′ N , 98 ° 17 ′ W Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ N , 98 ° 17 ′ W
Height :	262 m
Area :	24.67 km²
Residents :	12,728 (as of 2006)
Population density :	515.9 inhabitants / km²
Time zone :	Central Time ( UTC − 6 )
Postal code :	R1N
Mayor :	Ken Brennan
Website :	www.city.portage-la-prairie.mb.ca

Portage la Prairie is a place in the Canadian province of Manitoba , located approx. 70 km west of the provincial capital Winnipeg on the meandering bank of the Assiniboine River and is the fourth largest city in the province with 12,700 inhabitants (2006) . Portage is where the Assiniboine is the shortest distance from Lake Manitoba . Before the Canadian Pacific Railway was built in the 1880s , the lake-to-river route formed part of a travel and trade route between Ontario and Quebec in the east and Alberta and British Columbia in the west, providing an alternative to the Grand Rapids route . Since the new railway line also ran via Portage, the importance of the place was retained, while Grand Rapids lost a lot. Today, Portage is mainly characterized by agriculture and the food processing industry. The largest oat mill in the world is in Portage.

Footnotes

↑ see list of cities in Manitoba (the numbers there are taken from the Canadian population statistics, which, however, do not create a corresponding table for Manitoba).

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[1] see list of cities in Manitoba (the numbers there are taken from the Canadian population statistics, which, however, do not create a corresponding table for Manitoba).