This blog is to share some photo, some experience of my tours to different festivals, events and tourist spots in Manitoba. One most significant character of this province is it's raw, wild nature. Manitoba preserves, maintains and also focuses it's nature all over it's area. Many of the introductions of different posts are taken from different websites.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Neepawa Lily Festival 2010
http://www.lilyfestival.com/
Riding Mountain National Park July 2010
Canada Govt. Website for Riding Mountain National Park
World's Largest Snake Den at Narcisse
Government of Manitoba Website on Narcisse Snake den
Narcisse Snake den update, photo and video
Gimli and Winnipeg Beach, May 2010
Winnipeg Beach Website
http://www.gimli.ca/
Pinawa and West Hawk Lake
West Hawk Lake is located in the Whiteshell Provincial Park in southeastern Manitoba, Western Canada. The central portion of the lake is formed by the West Hawk crater, caused by a meteor impact into an ancient rock bed composed of mostly granite. Granite cliffs surround parts of the lake. This area is also known as part of the Canadian Shield that was formed billions of years ago....With 115 m / 360 ft, it is the deepest lake in Manitoba
http://www.pinawa.com/
http://www.granite.mb.ca/oldpinawa/index.html
Manitoba Govt Website about Pinawa Provincial Park
http://www.whiteshell.mb.ca/
Earth day in Fort Whyte Alive
http://www.fortwhyte.org/
Oak Hammock Marsh
http://www.oakhammockmarsh.ca/
Stonewall Quarry Park
http://www.stonewall.ca/residents/quarry.asp
Assiniboine Park Zoo
Manitoba Marine Museum, Selkirk
http://www.marinemuseum.ca/
http://www.cityofselkirk.com/
Kids events in the Forks
http://www.theforks.com/
Lockport March 2010
http://www.lockportmanitoba.ca/
Lower Fort Garry on March 2010
http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/mb/fortgarry/index.aspx
Frozen Lake at Gimli
http://www.gimli.ca/
Frozen Lake at Winnipeg Beach
Winnipeg Beach Website
Winter in Lake Manitoba and Interlake Region
Festival Du Voyager 2010
http://www.festivalvoyageur.mb.ca/
Forks Winter Park in February 2010
http://www.theforks.com/
Assiniboine Park in Winter
Manitoba Museum
http://www.manitobamuseum.ca
Forks Winter Park in January 2010
http://www.theforks.com/
Christmas Lighting 2009
Island of Light
http://www.city.portage-la-prairie.mb.ca/community/islandoflights.asp
Icy Birds Hill Provincial Park
http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/parks/popular_parks/central/birds.html
Frozen Dam
http://www.ieee.ca/millennium/seven_sisters/seven_history.html
Winter in Whiteshell Park
http://www.whiteshell.mb.ca/
Lower Fort Garry - National Historic Site
http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/mb/fortgarry/index.aspx
St. Leon Wind Farm
Grand Beach
Grand Beach Provincial Park (Manitoba Govt. Website)
Victoria beach
Dams on Winnipeg River
Pinawa Dam and provincial park
http://www.pinawa.com/
http://www.granite.mb.ca/oldpinawa/index.html
Manitoba Govt Website about Pinawa Provincial Park
Seven Sisters Dam
http://www.ieee.ca/millennium/seven_sisters/seven_history.html
Morden Apple and Corn Festival: Part 1
http://www.cornandapple.com/
Hecla Provincial Park
http://www.heclatourism.mb.ca/
http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/parks/popular_parks/central/hecla.html
St. Norbert Heritage Park
Manitoba Countrysides
International Peace Garden
http://www.peacegarden.com/
Spruce Wood Provincial Park
Threshermen's Reunion 2009
http://www.ag-museum.mb.ca/
Lily Festival 2009 at Neepawa
http://www.lilyfestival.com/
Riding Mountain National Park
http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/mb/riding/index.aspx
Picnic at Winnipeg Beach
http://www.winnipegbeachmanitoba.ca/
Vintage Car show at Portage la Prairie
http://www.city.portage-la-prairie.mb.ca/
Delta Marsh and research station, Delta Beach
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/science/893.htm
Summer Fair 2009 at Brandon
http://www.brandonfairs.com/
Austin, Manitoba
http://www.austinmanitoba.com/
Falcon Lake
Yellow Festival in Early summer of 2009
Tulip Festival 2009 in Winnipeg
Mennonite Heritage Village and Tractor Show
http://www.mennoniteheritagevillage.com/
Manitoba Stampede 2008
http://www.manitobastampede.ca/
http://www.town.morris.mb.ca/stampede.html
Money Making - Canadian Royal Mint
http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-the-mint/visit-the-mint-1200026
Festival Du Voyager 2008
http://www.festivalvoyageur.mb.ca/
Forks Winter Park in Winter 2008
Assinboine River Trail is claimed to be the world's longest naturally frozen skating trail... The Forks is a historic site and meeting place in Downtown Winnipeg located at the confluence of the Red River and Assiniboine River. For at least 6000 years, the Forks has been the meeting place for early Aboriginal peoples, and since colonization has also been a meeting place for European fur traders, Métis buffalo hunters, Scottish settlers, riverboat workers, railway pioneers and tens of thousands of immigrants.
http://www.theforks.com/
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Mennonite Heritage Village, Steinbach
Me and my family started our summer tour 2009 with Mennonite Heritage Village at Steinbach, Manitoba. Steinbach is about 50 km southeast of Winnipeg. About 13,000 people live in the city. But according to wikipedia it is the fastest growing city in Manitoba. The city was stablished by mennonite settlers from Russia. The windmill in the Mennonite Heritage village is considered as the symbol of the city.
Mennonite Heritage village is a 40 acres site which resembles the older mennonite village established in early 19th century in Southern Manitoba.
At beginning of each summer they celebrates spring on the farm along witha a tractor show. That was my first any kind of vehicle show in Canada. I really enjoyed all the old tractors. I'll give another post with the tractor show. In this post I'll focus on the Heritage village only.
The admission fee was CAD$10 for adult. It seembed very reasonable to me.
Leaving the entrance and the main building you will see a general store and other business oriented buildings
Semlin is a temporary house bulit by the early Mennonite to save themselves from the brutal winter of Manitoba. They didn't get enough time to build wooden home. Half of the structure is laid beneath the earth to keep it less exposed to cold wind.
Now photos of some of the vehicles and farming equipments are presented here:
Photo: Very very old Tracto, still working. They were using it for grinding crops
Photo: Crop husking Demonstration
Photo: Few of the farming equipments
Photo: Vehicle 1923 Model
Photo: Old Funeral Wagon
http://www.mennoniteheritagevillage.com/
Tulip Festival
I came to Winnipeg, Canada in August, 2007. I was always looking for different festivals, events in Winnipeg as well as in Manitoba. I saw beautiful photos of Tulip Festivals in Ottawa (Canada), Sydney (Australia), New York (USA). I was wondering whether there was any such festival in Winnipeg or in Manitoba. And I found one in Assinboine Park, Winnipeg. It was inside the city so very easily accessible. It is the first Tulip Festival I've attended.
It was the first Tulip Festival in Winnipeg as well as in Manitoba. Winnipeg is the coldest city in the world where more than 600,000 people live. So the harsh weather is a big obstacle for growing Tulip. In 2008, Dutch Community of Winnipeg donated 10,000 tulips to Leo Mol Sculpture garden in Assinboine Park which leads to the first ever Tulip Festival in Manitoba in the end of May, 2009.
Leo Mol sculpture garden is a small part of Assinboine park. There are lots of sculptures here. There is a building which preserves lots of sculptures related to Manitoban and Canadian culture.
You can see more photos in my web album : Picasa Web Albums - Shahnoor Habib Munmun - Tulip Garden
Photo5 : Yellow Tulip