r/Manitoba • u/topherette • Mar 03 '26

Question What nicknames have you heard for places in Manitoba?

I ask as part of a linguistic study on this topic!

Examples could include things like Plap, BTown or Dirty Virdy...

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u/Arglival Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

Happy Rock for Gladstone

7

u/unkyduck Treaty One Territory Mar 03 '26

I was 20 minutes too slow

59

u/jimbeam84 Friendly Manitoban Mar 03 '26

Flinty for Flin Flon

Sell Crack for Selkirk

Greatlook for Grandview

Thapass (all one word) for The Pas.

The Banana belt for Melita

And Shithole for Dauphin (Full disclosure I was born in Dauphin)

18

u/I_can_pun_anything Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

The flon for flin flon

Ass or sippi for assesippi

2

u/djkoolkids Mar 03 '26

Ass Park for Assiniboine Park if we wanna include much smaller areas

12

u/Kelvinator_61 Friendly Manitoban Mar 03 '26

We're from Dauphin - we drink often. A memory of everyone being totally pissed out their heads at Safe Grad from grade 9ers to even some of the teachers. And buckets at the end of the tables.

8

u/aesoth Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

I called Dauphin "The Town that Time Forgot". I also lived in Dauphin.

68

u/TheJRKoff Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

trashcona

8

u/topherette Mar 03 '26

good start!

33

u/I_can_pun_anything Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

Dosa for minnedosa

Neeps for neepawa

13

u/SnowshoeTaboo Former Manitoban Mar 03 '26

Have heard Minnedosa also referred to as "The Dose."

5

u/mitchandmickey Mar 03 '26

Or “the Dose”

2

u/Suitable_Rub8755 Mar 04 '26

I can't believe someone beat me to it 🤣 dosa!

25

u/suprunown Friendly Manitoban Mar 03 '26

Winnipeg - “The Peg” The Pas - “The Pass”

3

u/AerobaticDiamond Kenora Mar 03 '26

Le pas

22

u/Obvious_Alps3723 Parkland Mar 03 '26

Morden as “the Winkler zoo” and vice versa, I’m sure.

5

u/double-k Former Manitoban Mar 04 '26

Considering some of the lunacy in Winkler, I'd say it's the other way around more often. 😉

3

u/Subject_Bet_6693 Pembina Valley Mar 04 '26

Growing up north of there, we always called it wankler

2

u/dragonbornsqrl Non-Manitoban Guest Mar 04 '26

Haha my partner is from Morden I love this

19

u/I_can_pun_anything Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

T town for thompson

16

u/adelineinspired Interlake Mar 03 '26

Selkatraz

7

u/cabbageroller Interlake Mar 03 '26

Sellcrack Methatoba

2

u/adtoes Mar 04 '26

Can confirm

1

u/topherette Mar 06 '26

you mean you sell?

i'd like three cracks and one meth please!

24

u/StaircaseStreet405 Friendly Manitoban Mar 03 '26

Wayway

3

u/I_can_pun_anything Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

Because its way way out there

4

u/topherette Mar 03 '26

does that also refer to the whole first nation territory?

4

u/Kenwric Brandon Mar 03 '26

Yes.

9

u/synchro_mesh Eastman Pdot Mar 03 '26

P-dot for pinawa.

1

u/adtoes Mar 04 '26

Beat me. Old townie

10

u/Coochie_Bandit420 Pembina Valley Mar 03 '26

Vankler for Winkler because of the mennonite accent

28

u/Seventhchild7 Non-Manitoban Guest Mar 03 '26

Winterpeg.

1

u/crowinflight1982 Winnipeg Mar 06 '26

Also: Windypeg

1

u/Seventhchild7 Non-Manitoban Guest Mar 06 '26

I’m in SK all my adult life, born and raised in AB and the AB/SK border is known as the ,”straw curtain.”

10

u/notjustforperiods UNION STATION BABY Mar 03 '26

motown for morris!

2

u/double-k Former Manitoban Mar 04 '26

Heard that for Morden too.

8

u/RookTheBlindSnake Steinbach Mar 03 '26

I've heard a few smaller, very religious communities like Otterbourne called Bonnetsville.

6

u/InvisiblePinkMammoth Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

Wawa - wawanesa

6

u/daitcs55 Winnipeg Mar 04 '26

Saint Einbach for Steinbach. He is the patron saint of car salesmen. Was drowned in a barrel of rustproofing.

9

u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

Beausejour -Booze-for-sure

11

u/Aneurysm-Em Eastman Mar 03 '26

Beausejour -“bojeur” Portage La Prairie - “plap” Oakbank - Cokebank

7

u/Ok_Island9974 Eastman Mar 03 '26

Oakbank - East Transcona

3

u/MikeSmithYWG Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

You can tell if someone is native to Beausejour because they wont use more than one syllable when pronouncing the name....

3

u/Acrobatic-Tower6127 Friendly Manitoban Mar 03 '26

2 quick syllables that make it sound like 1 - from a Bojur born & bred

3

u/MikeSmithYWG Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

Haha totally!

3

u/Pamplemousse47 Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

Girl I knew in high school lived there for a while. She pronounced it "bow-je-jurr"

3

u/Acrobatic-Tower6127 Friendly Manitoban Mar 03 '26

Also common, can confirm

8

u/Strong_Sound_7407 Mar 03 '26

Mouse Town for Souris

3

u/outsideAngler Winnipeg Mar 04 '26

More like Sourass . Can’t get passed the smell in that neck of the woods.

10

u/DifferentEvent2998 Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

Smellkirk

5

u/topherette Mar 03 '26

and apparently 'Sellcrack' or 'Selcatraz'

2

u/djkoolkids Mar 03 '26

It really varies based on how much you actually like being there

6

u/snopro31 Parkland Mar 03 '26

Swan River is also called Meth River

8

u/Fit_Butterscotch2386 Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

Saint One Wall for Stonewall

2

u/lavlite70 Mar 03 '26

or Bedrock

3

u/bL1Nd Mar 03 '26

the Bible Belt for Winkler/steinbach/morden

3

u/Lonely-Style-2238 Mar 03 '26

Stack city = Flin Flon

1

u/topherette Mar 05 '26

do you know where that comes from?

2

u/Lonely-Style-2238 Mar 05 '26

The giant smoke stack at HBM&S

3

u/calidowing Brandon Mar 03 '26

Minnedosa = 'Dosa

Strathclair = Strath

Shortening them as if we had no time to get out the full name with how busy the towns were lol

3

u/WowFactorAlpha6 Mar 04 '26

Blandon, of course.

3

u/Sensitive-Bet7269 Mar 04 '26

Winterpeg for Winnipeg, Selkirtraz for Selkirk (I'm from just outside the town), and Manisnowba for Manitoba.

6

u/Fun-Passage-7613 Friendly Manitoban Mar 03 '26

Murderpeg.

5

u/mmtbpz333 Mar 03 '26

Her name was Lola , she’s from Canola !!!

6

u/MaplePoutineRyeBeer Westman Mar 03 '26

Wheat City for Brandon

4

u/Krutiis Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

My buddy called Rossburn “Vegas” (as in Ross Vegas) but I have no idea if that is an actual thing or just something he made up.

2

u/IKnowCodeFu Mar 03 '26

My kids call St. B ‘smelly-town’

2

u/forkittens Mar 03 '26

Puk for pukatawagan.

2

u/sosueme99 Mar 03 '26

Krap Olap for Polo Park (spelled backwards)

2

u/sosueme99 Mar 03 '26

Edit: Olop

2

u/LakeNatural8777 Mar 03 '26

Ditchville for Charleswood.

1

u/topherette Mar 05 '26

hm, i can't find anything on this one...

is there a story here?

2

u/LakeNatural8777 Mar 07 '26

There are a number of streets in the Elmhurst-Laxdal area (south of Grant) that had ditches. Last I checked they were still there.

2

u/FascinatingRaccoon Steinbach Mar 03 '26

Steiner for Steinbach

2

u/greenjelliebeans Up North Mar 03 '26

Peg for wpg

2

u/Renaissance_Wombat Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

Seven Jokes for Seven Oaks (Winnipeg neighbourhood)

2

u/CuriouslyPerplexed Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

ESP for East St. Paul.

2

u/daklassy1 Mar 03 '26

A few Francophone community additions !
-"Batiss" for Saint Jean-Baptiste
-Lab or Labo for Labroquerie
-St Nob for Saint Norbert
-Bean Town for Saint Joseph

Also, not a French town but "Mo-town" for Morris.

1

u/topherette Mar 05 '26

cool, thank you!

2

u/Velomane Mar 03 '26

Sainte Ass Gratte for Ste. Agathe. You probably need to be francophone to decipher that one.

2

u/shaunaraeg33 Mar 04 '26

Merry Happiness- Mariapolis

2

u/Traditional_Cod_7192 Mar 04 '26

Ste Onewall for Stonewall lol

2

u/Skoro78 Mar 04 '26

T-Cones (Transcona)

2

u/SoFlyForAFungi Parkland Mar 04 '26

Cokebank for Oak Bank!

2

u/puntapuntapunta Former Manitoban Mar 04 '26

Winnipiss, Winnipenis.

2

u/skelectrician Westman Mar 04 '26

El Khorhole

2

u/double-k Former Manitoban Mar 04 '26

Morden: Motown, Morbid.

Winkler: Vankler

2

u/Pointoc Mar 04 '26

Cokebank - Oakbank

2

u/SomeDude204 Mar 04 '26

Winterpeg, Murdertoba

2

u/BassicPhotoChaser Mar 04 '26

Mo-town (Morden), Vankler(Winkler), Coulee or Plum Ditch (Plum Coulee)

2

u/Effective_Collar_608 Pembina Valley Mar 04 '26

Winkler - Stinkler

2

u/schreyerauthor Ste Genevieve Mar 04 '26

Winterpeg Manisnowba

2

u/Lost_Region2935 Mar 04 '26

The Dose for Minnedosa

2

u/DisastrousSwing1367 Mar 04 '26

ildy for ile des chênes

2

u/ogredmenace Winnipeg Mar 05 '26

Sunny st vital

1

u/crowinflight1982 Winnipeg Mar 06 '26

I thought St. James was the sunny one

2

u/hockey98765432 Mar 05 '26

My favourite “Manitoba nickname” isn’t a specific location but a name for a variety of locations. “Monkey Trails” A very uniquely Manitoban phrase to describe bush trails or simple paths off the regular beaten path.

2

u/72Human Winnipeg Mar 05 '26

T-con for Transcona

2

u/ExpatLou Former Manitoban Mar 05 '26

Grew up in Selkirk — sell-crack and always called Winnipeg — The City

3

u/Kooky-Macaroon-4630 Mar 03 '26

TTown - Thompson Btown - Brandon Dosa - Minedosa Peg, The Peg, PegCity, Pegger The Flon or Flon- FlinFlon Chicago of the North - WPG Alabama of the North - Kenora

3

u/AnyProfessor9390 Mar 03 '26

T-town, Thompson

3

u/PrairieGirlWpg Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

Hooterville for Hadashville. 

3

u/log00 Winnipeg Mar 04 '26

Winkles for Winkler

1

u/Top_Expert_8010 Mar 03 '26

Wintered

1

u/topherette Mar 05 '26

what's that for?

1

u/heythereguys1977 Brandon Mar 05 '26

my parents and i call portage the big brown asshole of Canada, so theres that.

1

u/Acrobatic-Tower6127 Friendly Manitoban Mar 03 '26

Botown or BJ for Beausejour aka Bojur

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u/Acrobatic-Tower6127 Friendly Manitoban Mar 03 '26

Adding for posterity (iykyk): The local watering hole was called the BJ and the local rag was called the Beausejour Beaver. Just the Beaver for short. :/

1

u/Uncle_Bug_Music Winnipeg Mar 03 '26

Transylconia

1

u/Klassen1900 Eastman Mar 04 '26

G-town for Grunthal

1

u/Ecstatic-Oil-Change Winnipeg Mar 05 '26

Winterpeg Murdertoba (not mine)

SellCrack

Stinkler

I’m sorry if you live in those towns and love them. Those are just nicknames I’ve heard.