Winnipeg

Winnipeg , the provincial capital, is located about halfway between the Atlantic and the Pacific, surrounded by vast prairie, the largest part of the south of the province makes up the. As the fourth largest city in Canada it is a cultural center with theaters, museums and galleries, a ballet and an opera. Architecturally notable buildings are the Houses of Parliament with the emblem of Manitoba, the golden boy, the Centennial Centre with the Museum of Natural History and Ethnology, in the history of the prairie is presented and the Commodity Exchange, the largest grain market in the world. St. Boniface, once a separate city, is now the Winnipeg’s French quarter.


In the suburbs is worth a visit to the Royal Canadian Mint, Canadian Mint, and the old fur trading post Lower Fort Garry.

Outside Winnipeg

On a paddle steamer can make excursions through the lush farmland of the Red River and Assiniboine River. The driven by a steam locomotive Prairie Dog Central connects the city with Grosse Isle. The German-speaking Mennonites Steinbach is located east of the capital city on the Trans-Canada Highway. can far is over 2,500 sq km of Whiteshell Provincial Park, where you fish and canoe. The resorts on the lakes, Falcon Lake and West Hawk Lake offer good opportunities for swimming and sailing.

West of Winnipeg, the highway runs through the wheat country. The Fort-la-Reine Museum and Pioneer Village in Portage la Prairie remember the time when the city was a trading post for pioneers (18th century). The International Peace Garden, a huge garden with numerous waterways, is located on the border to North Dakota.

On Lake Winnipeg, there are beautiful sandy beaches, boats can be rented. Gimli, the largest city in the region, still has a large Icelandic population, the annual festival celebrating Iceland. The Hecla Provincial Park is a wooded islands on the lake.

The Riding Mountain National Park to the south of Manitoba, about 250 km from Winnipeg is, for its rich animal (bison, bears, wolves) and plant population known.

Ukrainian immigrants settled in the agricultural area around Dauphin in 1890. The Pas is the starting point for excursions to the lakes and rivers of the northern interior. Near the border into Saskatchewan are the mining and logging town Flin Flon and the Grass River Park, a large granite desert. Churchill, a sub-Arctic seaport on Hudson Bay in the far northeast, is by train, boat or plane to . One can see from here in the summer polar bears and beluga whales in Hudson Bay.