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Point Douglas is a part of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, surrounded by a bend in the Red River. It is the namesake of a larger city ward, represented by a member of Winnipeg City Council. With different boundaries, it is also eponymous of a provincial electoral division of Manitoba. ==History== The division was created by redistribution for the 1969 provincial election, eliminated in 1978, and re-established in 1989 from parts of Burrows, Logan and St. Johns. It is located in north-central Winnipeg, and includes the Point Douglas neighbourhood. Point Douglas is bordered to the east by St. Boniface and Elmwood, to the south by Fort Rouge, to the north by St. Johns, and to the west by Burrows, Wellington and Minto. Different parts of the division are included in the federal ridings of Winnipeg Centre and Winnipeg North. Point Douglas is named after Thomas Douglas, the 5th Earl of Selkirk, who established the Red River Colony in 1812. His namesake, twentieth-century politician Tommy Douglas, also lived in the Point Douglas neighbourhood in the early 1910s.〔(Bill Blaikie, Address to the Premier's Dinner ), 29 October 2004.〕 The Manitoba New Democratic Party has won every election in the constituency. The current Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Point Douglas is Kevin Chief, an Aboriginal candidate who grew up in Point Douglas. Chief is also Minister of Child and Youth Opportunities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Point Douglas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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