Average costs and comments from CostHelper's team of professional journalists and community of users. Do-it-yourself materials to install an asphalt shingle roof on an average one-story ranch-style home (with a gently sloping roof of 1,700-2,100 square feet) can run $680-$3,700, depending on the quality of the materials.
The Origin of the Name. Manitoba. The name Manitoba originated in the languages. of the Aboriginal people who lived on the. Prairies and travelled the waters of Lake. Manitoba. These people, the Cree and Assiniboin First. Nations, introduced European explorers, traders.
This is an interesting medieval locational name of English and Scots origin, from places so called in Gloucestershire, Berwick, and Aberdeen. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century hunta, a hunter, and leah, a wood or clearing in a wood.