Private plates plus stickers.

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New Winnipeg Blue Bombers plates were released on June 6, 2011 and all 8100 of them were sold out by the following month.

Passenger car	Truck

Passenger	Pass (Hi-Signs)	Reserved series 1983-base carryover	Personalized (regular Waldale)
Personalized (rare dot)	Personalized (rare dash)	Personalized (T class)	Personalized (FT class)
Personalized (Hi-Signs)	Personalized (Hi-Signs rare square divider)	Personalized (Hi-Signs T class)	Personalized (Hi-Signs FT class)
Personalized (German language sticker)	Personalized (protest slogan sticker)	Personalized (rare single letter)	Personalized (rare 1RPL)
Ham Radio (2-letter, no space)	Ham Radio (2-letter, space)	Ham Radio (2-letter, no space & T class)	Ham Radio (2-letter, space & language sticker)
Ham Radio (3-letter, no space)	Ham Radio (3-letter, space)	Ham Radio (3-letter, no space & T class)	Ham Radio (3-letter, space & T class)
Truck	Truck (Hi-Signs)	Farm Truck	Farm truck (Hi-Signs) *Rare*
Pan Am vehicles	Pan Am series (T class)	Pan Am prototype (never implemented)
Re-class blank sticker	VOID sticker	Pass (add-on sticker)	Pass with Shriner sticker
Pass with Indian language sticker	Pass with Latvian language sticker	Pass with French language sticker	Pass with Scottish Gaelic language sticker
T class Hi Signs with Ukrainian language sticker *Rare*	Pass with Ukrainian language stickers	Pass with Ukrainian language sticker	Pass with Ukrainian language sticker

	Handicapped permit, must be displayed by hanging inside vehicle on the rear view mirror. English on one side and French on the other.
	Temporary paper permit, display inside car on windshield and facing out. Usually seen on vehicles not otherwise plated.
	Apparently used for out of province vehicles.
	IFTA = International Fuel Tax Association. These stickers are found on large trucks and buses and must be purchased yearly for apportionment of fuel taxes in the same manner that Apportioned license plates deal with road taxes. The earliest Manitoba IFTA sticker I have seen was from 1995.
	Current type commercial vehicle inspection sticker.
	Older vehicle inspection sticker. This particular one is dated 5-11-82. Back then, passenger vehicle inspections were random.

 

• The entire AAA 1xx series (beginning at 101) was initially reserved for the Premier (AAA 101 to Gary Doer) and MLAs but the plates have been withdrawn from use due to security reasons.
• Hi-Signs handled production of Manitoba plates briefly in 2002-03 and this affected passenger (DPA-DWC), CT (CDA-CDB), CT-TL (CPL, CRL and CSL) , personalized motorcycle, personalized passenger, ham radio, trailer and the initial batch of SEMI plates (SG-SL). Waldale production resumed relatively quickly.
• With the initial introduction of this base, various minority language groups were offended because the plate was produced in English only. The issue ended up before the courts, and it was ruled that Manitoba had no constitutional requirement to produce license plates with different languages. English is the primary language of Manitoba, however, this didn't stop some groups from producing their own stickers to add to their plates. Authorities allowed the plates to be defaced in this manner, as long as the sticker was a direct translation of the English greeting on the plate. When I returned to Manitoba in 2007 I found that very few of these retrofitted plates were still around. I've only seen about 35 of them in total and almost all of those were on relatively old plates, so the matter would appear to be behind us. I photograph whichever ones I see (that are still legible) and try to show them all on this website. In fact, I've seen more exc or mint examples on eBay than I've ever seen here in traffic!
• In August 1999, the Pan Am Games were held in Winnipeg. The entire DDD series was issued ahead of sequence (they were only in the mid-B series at the time) to vehicles associated with the organization and operation of this event. The lowest numbers were assigned the highest level of security clearance while those vehicles bearing plates with the highest numbers had the least access. At the conclusion of the games, all DDD plates were returned to Motor Vehicle headquarters in Winnipeg, where the majority were ultimately destroyed. A few pairs such as the repeating numbers 222, 444 did survive and were subsequently transferred to non-PanAM vehicles for regular use to this very day. We have also observed 394, 396, 397, 400, 401, 414 (DAA), 550, 636, 643 and 649 in regular use even as late as 2011. August and SEP 99 base stickers found on all original DDD plates indicate their unusual application and should not be tampered with. A few were extended to SEP 99 and some could be found with T stickers, indicating their use on trucks. Note also the prototype plate shown above which was never mass-produced for issuance and that program not implemented. Surviving examples are likely salesman samples. Many of the DDD plates were therefore used as the official Pan Am plates and should be the ONLY ones considered as such.
• Hi-Signs ham plate VE4 JLQ observed in fall 2008. Rare use of the letter Q for hi signs. Very few Hi-Signs ham plates have been observed.

© Updated 11-20-11

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