Manitoba official handbook
Manitoba Driver's Handbook 2026
The official Driver's Handbook that Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) publishes for this test, 142 pages, linked directly from the agency.
- Pages
- 142
- Published by
- Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI)
Read the handbook
Opens on the Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) website. We link to the agency rather than hosting a copy, so you always get the current version.
142 pages, 28.5 MB
All documents are hosted by Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI), not by us. Visit the Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) handbook page.
Sources and changes
How we check this handbook against the agency's own file, and what has changed in it.
Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI)Not printed by the agency
Official source: Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI)- Last checked
- Oct 19, 2026
- How we check
- Monitored regularly
Latest changes
No changes recorded yet.
Sunny breaks the Manitoba handbook into short lessons in plain language, plays them aloud if you like, and checks what you remember before moving on.
Why the Manitoba handbook is worth reading once
Every question on the MPI knowledge test comes from what Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) publishes in this handbook. Our 268 practice questions for Manitoba are written from it too, so reading it once and then testing yourself is faster than doing either alone.
Read it end to end once, then use practice questions to find the parts you have not absorbed.
What the Manitoba handbook covers
These 142 pages are the whole of what the test can draw on. Reading the list below is a quick way to find the parts you have not looked at yet.
- Getting your licence and the graduated licensing stages
- Traffic signs, signals and pavement markings
- Rules of the road, right of way and intersections
- Speed limits and following distance
- Turning, passing, lane changes and merging
- Parking rules and prohibited distances
- Sharing the road with cyclists, pedestrians and large vehicles
- School buses and emergency vehicles
- Impaired driving and the penalties that follow
- Winter, night and poor-visibility driving
- Collisions, breakdowns and what the law requires of you
Manitoba test facts
Every figure here is Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI)'s own for the MPI knowledge test, not a national average. Provinces genuinely differ, and studying another province's number is a common way to fail.
- Total questions
- Not published by MPI
- Pass mark
- MPI doesn't publish a pass mark
- Time limit
- 30 minutes
- Minimum age
- 16 (15 and a half while enrolled in a high school driver education course)
- Languages
- English, French and 28 other languages, with audio
- Administered by
- MPI service centres
- Retake waiting period
- 7 days after a fail; C$10 test fee