Prominent
'Peggers
Guy Maddin, a Winnipeg
avant-garde filmmaker
produced, among many others,
The Saddest Music in the
World with Isabella Rossellini,
the docu-fantasy detailing
Maddin's hometown, My
Winnipeg, and in 2016 won
the Rogers Best Canadian Film
Award for his surreal outing,
The Forbidden Room.
Winnipeg-born author Gabrielle Roy
was arguably the best-known French
writer in Canada. She is most famous
for writing
The Tin Flute, which won the
Prix Fèmina in France and the Literary
Guild award for North America. Visitors
can explore her former home La
Maison Gabrielle Roy, which is now
a museum located in St. Boniface.
Winnipeg was the first city in North
America to use a 9-1-1 central
emergency number thanks to the efforts
of Mayor Stephen Juba, who also had the
number changed from 9-9-9 to 9-1-1,
which is now used across North America.
Winnipegger Amber Balcaen
drove into NASCAR history
books as the first Canadian
woman to win a NASCAR-
sanctioned race in 2016.
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courtesty
imdb.com
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courtesty
Annette
&
Basil
Zarov
