RMWHA9PJ–Engineering in Canada. Winnipeg River north of Winnipeg the capital of Manitoba is a typical combined power and highway development. Like its giant neighbour to the south, Canada is a country of vast engineering enterprises. There is a constant and increasing demand for new bridges to span rugged valleys and rapid streams, new power stations to harness still more of the countrys huge water power reserves, new canals to carry the growing inland water traffic, new irrigation dams to insure a water supply for wheatlands of the west.