|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Home > Disasters and Tragedies > Extreme Weather > Red River Rising: Manitoba Floods |
 |
|||
 Red River Rising: Manitoba Floods |
|||
  
|
|||
The Cree called it Miscousipi, Red Water River, and warned early settlers of its hidden capacity for destruction. The river flooded in 1826, forcing the complete evacuation of the 10-year-old Red River colony. But most settlers refused to give up. Winnipeg, the city they built on the Red River’s banks, has braved disaster again and again – in 1950, 1966, 1979, and again, dramatically, in 1997. |
  Educational activities about Red River Rising: Manitoba Floods |
||
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
 CBC journalists describe the mass evacuation of 100,000 Manitobans during the devastating flood of 1950. (Radio; runs 10:14) |
 In 1966, the Winnipeg floodway is still two years from completion. Winnipeggers hope that ring dikes and sandbags will be enough to save them. (Radio; runs 4:45) |
 CBC Winnipeg looks back at how the Red River floodway came to be. (TV; runs 8:13) |
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
 Another major flood threatens the Red River Valley. The town of Morris digs in for a fight. Can the floodway save Winnipeg? (Radio; runs 11:05) |
 Heavy snows this winter spell danger. Seventy-two-year-old farmer Ted Sabourin predicts the biggest flood in living memory. (TV; runs 2:15) |
 Premier Gary Filmon declares a state of emergency and evacuations from the Red River Valley begin. (TV; runs 3:14) |
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
 Pauline Thiessen of Morden, Man. is making 8,000 to 11,000 sandwiches a day to feed volunteers and flood workers.(Note: poor quality audio) (Radio; runs 2:50) |
 Just outside Morris, Man., the Hamblin family prepares to fight the flood of the century. (TV; runs 14:56) |
 At 12:30 am, April 29, the Red River floods through Ste. Agathe. One of the last people to be evacuated describes the scene. (Radio; runs 3:33) |
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
 The Canadian military is on the front lines in the war against the Red. (TV; runs 6:44) |
 One family returns home to clean up and put in a last-minute crop. Were rural homes and communities sacrificed to save Winnipeg? (TV; runs 14:41) |
 The Manitoba government has two proposals for protecting Winnipeg against future floods, but nearby towns don't like either one. (TV; runs 1:30) |
|||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 Additional Clips about Red River Rising: Manitoba Floods
