Winnipeg River Winnipeg River The Winnipeg River is a Canadian river which flows roughly northwest from Lake of the Woods in the province of Ontario to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba. This river is long from the Norman Dam in Kenora to its mouth at Lake Winnipeg. Its watershed is in area, mainly in Canada. About of the watershed is in northern Minnesota, United States. The watershed stretches to the height of land about west of Lake Superior. The Winnipeg River watershed was the southeastern-most portion of the land granted in 1670 to the Hudson's Bay Company. The portion in Canada corresponds roughly
The Winnipeg Foundation with a gift of $100,000 from local businessman and banker, William Forbes Alloway. In 2001, the Foundation experienced an unprecedented gift when it received a $100 million donation - at the time it was the largest gift ever made to a Canadian community foundation - from Randall Moffat and his family. Moffat is the former president of Moffat Communications. In 2003, The Winnipeg Foundation made its largest grant to date ($6 million) to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. In 2012, The Winnipeg Foundation surpassed $300 million in total cumulative grants. The Winnipeg Foundation The Winnipeg Foundation is a registered