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Burrows is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1957, and formally came into existence in the provincial election of 1958. The riding is located in the northern part of Winnipeg.
Burrows is named after Theodore Arthur Burrows, who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba from 1926 to 1929. It is bordered to the east by St. Johns and Point Douglas, to the south by Wellington, to the north by Kildonan and The Maples, and to the west by Inkster. The riding's boundaries were significantly redrawn in 1999, taking in a considerable amount of territory which was previously a part of Inkster.
The riding's population in 1996 was 18,718. In 1999, the average family income was $35,575, one of the lowest rates in the province. Thirty-nine per cent of the riding's residents are listed as low-income, with an unemployment rate of 13%. One household in four has only one parent. Nineteen per cent of the riding's residents are over sixty-five years of age.
The total immigrant population in Burrows is 21%, with almost one in three residents speaking a first language other than English or French. The aboriginal population is 15%.
Manufacturing accounts for 22% of Burrows's industry, with a further 15% in the service sector.
The CCF and its successor the NDP have won Burrows on all but two occasions since the riding was created.
Burrows is an English surname, and may refer to:
- Abe Burrows (1910-1985), American humorist and author
- Adrian Burrows (b. 1959), former English footballer
- Alexandre Burrows (b. 1981), Canadian ice hockey player
- Andy Burrows (b. 1979), British musician
- Arthur Burrows (radio broadcaster), British broadcaster
- Arthur Burrows (English cricketer) (1865-1890), English cricketer
- Arthur Burrows (Australian cricketer) (1903-1984), Australian cricketer
- Arthur Burrows (footballer) (born 1919), former English footballer
- Benjamin Burrows (Business Person) (born 1992), Strap-On QA Analyst and Amateur Snake Handler
- Bernard Burrows (1910-2002), British diplomat
- Craig Burrows (b. 1972), Australian rules footballer
- Daniel Burrows (1766-1858), US Representative from Connecticut
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David Burrows several people including:
- David Burrows (filmmaker) (b. 1962), American film producer, director and writer
- David Burrows (footballer) (b. 1968), former English footballer
- Darren E. Burrows (b. 1966), American actor
- Don Burrows (b. 1926), Australian jazz and swing musician
- Edward Burrows (1917-1988), American pacifist
- Edwin G. Burrows (b. 1943), American professor of history
- Edwin Grant Burrows (1891-1958), American professor of anthropology
- Elsie M. Burrows (1913-1986), English botanist
- Eva Burrows (1929-2015), the 13th General of The Salvation Army
- Faith Burrows (1904-1997), American cartoonist
- Frank Burrows (b. 1944), Scottish football manager and former player
- Frederick Burrows (1887-1973), British politician
- George Burrows (disambiguation)
- Harry Burrows (b. 1941), former English footballer
- Herbert Burrows (1845-1922), British social activist
- Horace Burrows (1910-1969), English footballer
- Jacen Burrows (b. 1972), American comic book artist
- James Burrows (b. 1949), American television director
- Jeff Burrows (b. 1968), Canadian drummer
- John Burrows (1913-1987, American baseball player
- John Burrows (1849-1894), English cricketer (AKA John Selby)
- Jonathan Burrows, English choreographer
- Joseph Henry Burrows (1840-1914), US Representative from Missouri
- Julius C. Burrows (1837-1915), US Representative from Michigan
- Larry Burrows (1926-1971), English photojournalist
- Latham A. Burrows (1792-1855), New York politician
- Lorenzo Burrows (1805-1885), American merchant banker and politician
- Malandra Burrows (b. 1965), English actress
- Marc Burrows (1978-2009), English footballer
- Michael Burrows (b. 1963), British computer scientist
- Michael Burrows (bishop) (b. 1961), Bishop in the Church of Ireland
- Mike Burrows (b. 1943), English bicycle designer
- Montagu Burrows (1819-1905), English naval officer and Oxford professor
- Patrick Burrows (b. 1959), Canadian ice hockey player
- Phillip Burrows (b. 1980), New Zealand field hockey player
- Randall K. Burrows, American politician
- Robert Burrows (1871-1943), English cricketer
- Roland Burrows (1882-1952), judge and legal writer.
- Ronald Montagu Burrows (1867-1920), British academic
- Saffron Burrows (b. 1972), English American actress
- Stephen Burrows, American film actor and director
- Steven Burrows (b. 1964), English musician
- Stuart Burrows (b. 1933), Welsh operatic tenor
- Terry Burrows, English author and musician
- Terry Burrows (baseball) (b. 1968), American baseball player
- Theodore Arthur Burrows (1857-1929), Canadian politician
- Tom Burrows (b. 1985), English cricketer with Hampshire
- Tom Burrows (footballer) (1886-??), English goalkeeper with Southampton
- Tony Burrows (b. 1942), British session singer
- Vinie Burrows, American Broadway actress
- Warren Booth Burrows (1877-1952), US Federal judge
- Wilf Burrows (1902–1985), English professional footballer
- William Ward Burrows I (1758-1805), US Navy second Commandant
- William Ward Burrows II (1785-1813), US Navy officer
- Winfrid Oldfield Burrows (1858-1929), English bishop
- Burrows, a family of Hobbits in J.R.R. Tolkien's book series Lord of the Rings
- Lincoln "L. J." Burrows Jr., character on Prison Break
- Troy Burrows, character on Power Rangers: Megaforce
Burrows may refer to:
- Plural for " Burrow"
- Burrows, Indiana, a small US town
- Burrows Township, Platte County, Nebraska
- Burrows, Saskatchewan
- Burrows (electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Manitoba
- USS Burrows, several US Navy ships with this name
- Burrows (surname), people with the surname Burrows
Usage examples of "burrows".
The burrows of mammals and insects and amphibians turned into tiny coffins.
Scott Burrows cornered Claudine in the staff cafeteria, easing uninvited into the vacant seat at her table.
There were separate offices for each psychologist and a communal conference area where Scott Burrows had hosted their argumentative seminars to occupy the empty days.
The fact that Burrows was a layman who had invented a science now practised by professionals was another familiar gambit.
Purga and Last were here, and other mammals, little ratlike creatures that had kept themselves alive in their underground burrows, warmed through this long winter by their constant body heat.
Here, too, were insects, snails, frogs, salamanders, snakes, creatures who had endured in burrows and riverbanks or deep holes.
So the primates dug, building burrows in which Purga would have felt comfortable.
In the burrows, the females still slept, consuming the last of their winter stores.
The burrows were not exactly warm inside, but the temperature never dropped below freezing.
Mole folk reproduced quickly, and as soon as the food supply picked up, the empty burrows and chambers would be full again.
Shielded from the excesses of the climate, moving from their burrows only when driven to mate, the rat-mouths had slow metabolisms and very small brains.
And then had come the extraordinary letter from a hitherto unknown firm of solicitors, informing her that she was the sole beneficiary under the will of a certain John William Burrows, who had left her not only the entire contents of his bank account, which amounted to some fifty thousand pounds, but also a comfortably sized but very dilapidated cottage, together with its large overgrown garden and several acres of land on the outskirts of a tiny Cheshire village.
Burrows had left his property Melanie still had no idea why on earth John Burrows had left his estate to her, and the solicitors had been as baffled as she was herself.
Apart from his cousin, it seemed that John Burrows had had no other family.
Melanie Foden to whom John Burrows had in tended to leave her inheritance.