Moody Manitoba Morning - The Bells - Toba pics

Moody Manitoba Morning - The Bells - Toba pics
Classic song written by Boissevain's Rick Neufeld and recorded by Montreal's The Five Bells / The Bells.
About moody Manitoba (the province): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba
About Rick Neufeld: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Neufeld
About The Bells: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bells_(band)
images from jrj archives, Travel Manitoba, MB Municipalities and google.
Yeah, you can't get away without talking about climate when talking about Manitoba. In summer it's hot. In winter it's cold. Who'd have thought??
What we do know is that people manipulate statistics to satisfy whatever arguement they are putting forward.
There are some strange ones out there:
Like Edmonton Alberta is further north than Nunavut -(Nunavut "owns" the islands in James Bay, some of which are further south than the Alberta capital.
Did you know that Manitoba is a maritime province? In fact, there are only two provinces that are not. Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only land-locked Canadian provinces.
Or how 'bout saying that most of the United States is further north than Canada....(26 US states, more than half of the 50 states, have a portion of their boundaries lying further north than Canada's most southerly point - in Ontario of all places)
And of course, most of Canada gets colder than Manitoba. (the all time recorded record lows in each province and territory west of Newfoundland & Labrador (or is it New Brunswick) have had colder record lows than MB)
Of note Alberta's -61 and Yukon's -81. And how about that; Ontario gets colder than Nunavut!
North America's coldest temp ever: --81.4 Snag, Yukon, Canada (wikipedia)
January 11, 1911 Fort Vermilion, Alberta −61.1 °C
January 31, 1947 Smith River, British Columbia −58.9 °C
January 23, 1935 Iroquois Falls, Ontario −58.3 °C
February 13, 1973 Shephard Bay, Nunavut −57.8 °C
December 26, 1917 Fort Smith, Northwest Territories −57.2 °C
February 1, 1893 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan −56.7 °C
February 5, 1923 Doucet, Quebec −54.4 °C
January 9, 1899 Norway House, Manitoba −52.8 °C
So don't believe everything you read on the internet (especially Wikipedia). Somebody's probably trying to mislead you with statistical "lies".
Oh yeah....we DO have the coldest national capital on the planet - it just depends how you manipulate the stats - I chose average January overnight low.
Ottawa's average January minimum temperature is −15.3 °C (ottawa.ca) in Moscow it is -9.2 (thermograph.ru) and in Reykjavík a balmy -3 (WMO)
Also, don't worry about the cold - Canada is much warmer than other places on earth such as: Antarctica --129 Vostok 21 Jul 1983 or -90 recorded in Oimekon, Russia on 6 Feb 1933 & -90 Verkhoyansk, Russia on 7 Feb 1892, Greenland endured -87 in Northice on 9 Jan 1954 (I don't think Greenland is a sovereign nation but what the heck).
Gettin' hot?

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• boissevain

[johnyoungstewart]

I thought you pulled this, and left YTube?

If so, welcome back.

To the American that wanted the 45 vinyl?

Ask my ex-wife. She kept all of my music.

(including a CD of The Bells) :(

[rsensorat4]

@johnyoungstewart Nope the 'Toba channel is back. As for letting your ex-wife scoop your classic vinyl . . . how could you let that happen jys?

[samk1101]

Pretty province, but those winters: Yikes!

[rsensorat4]

@samk1101 Yeah, we have too much Canadian content for some people but in the words of The Arrogant Worms "Forgive us we're Canadian, and some might think it's planned

But there's no where that we'd rather live....

Than this vast and frozen land!"

What you don't know is that every province and territory west of New Brunswick (about 85-90% of Canada) has had colder record cold temps than Manitoba - it's a cool country.

[gottselig2004]

@rsensorat4 Thats not true at all..Manitoba is one of the coldest provinces temp wise.

[rsensorat4]

@gottselig2004 Finally someone called me on that one. But I stand behind that statement (I said record low temps). Most of Canada has had colder record lows than Manitoba - see details inside.

[lalabkk]

My high school days when this song was played on the radio. Oops! just gave my age.

Aaaah... the carefree days then.

[johnyoungstewart]

Papaneuf? TY! ;)

[gottselig2004]

@rsensorat4 Ive live in most places in Canada through the years and northern Manitoba is freezing cold as i rem but its all relative as i sit here in NS sitting at 13 degrees today lol.

Anyway the Bells were a great Canadian group for the times

[gottselig2004]

Ill bet if they saw Manitoba today they would change the lyrics lol

[johnyoungstewart]

@johnyoungstewart

Sorry. Do not know how to post an original message.

As to the vinyl.... well, it was a bad break up ....

[johnyoungstewart]

@rsensorat4

Was a rather difficuly ending ..... 

[johnyoungstewart]

@amoy1221

Mr. Neufeld, or "papaneuf" as he is known here, wrote this tune.