Tag: Thompson

Thompson is a city in northern Manitoba. As the “Hub of the North” it serves as the regional trade and service centre of northern Manitoba. Thompson is located 830 km (520 mi) north of the Canada – United States border, 739 km (459 mi) north of the provincial capital of Winnipeg, and is 396 km (246 mi) northeast of Flin Flon. It has a population of 12,829 residents, which also serves as a trade centre for an additional 36,000 – 65,000 Manitobans.
On July 24, 2012 Statistics Canada released its annual Juristat Crime Severity Index values for 239 police services policing communities over 10,000 population for 2011 and Thompson for the second year in a row topped the Violent Crime Severity Index in all of Canada and finished second in both the Overall Crime Severity Index column and Non-Violent Crime Severity Index column.
The Thompson area was first inhabited by nomadic Paleo-Indian hunters 6000 BC. Europeans conducted a federal geological survey in Thompson in 1896.
The modern history…