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Monday, September 13, 2010

Neepawa Lily Festival 2010

Neepawa claims herself as the world capital of lily. From wiki - Neepawa is a town in Manitoba, Canada located on the Yellowhead Highway at the intersection with Highway 5. As of 2006 its population was 3,298. Neepawa was incorporated as a town in 1883. It is located in the Rural Municipality of Langford and bordered to the north by the Rural Municipality of Rosedale. Neepawa is the self-proclaimed Lily capital of the world in part because of its Lily Festival. The town has also been named Manitoba's Most Beautiful Town more than any other community in the province.

http://www.lilyfestival.com/

Riding Mountain National Park July 2010

Riding Mountain National Park is a national park in Manitoba, Canada. The park sits atop the highest part of the Manitoba Escarpment. Consisting of a protected area 2,969 km2 (1,146 sq mi),[1] the forested parkland stands in sharp contrast to the surrounding prairie farmland. The park is home to wolves, moose, elk, black bears, hundreds of bird species, countless insects and a captive bison herd. The park was first protected in 1929 and had much of its public infrastructure created during the 1930s by labourers participating in Canada's great depression relief programs. Much of this early construction survives to this day. During World War II it was home to a Prisoner of War camp which has since been dismantled. In 1986, Riding Mountain was designated a biosphere reserve by UNESCO.
Canada Govt. Website for Riding Mountain National Park

Grand Beach on June 2010

Grand Beach Provincial Park (Manitoba Govt. Website)

Manitoba Highland Gathering at Selkirk

http://www.manitobahighlandgathering.org/

Summer 2010 in Winnipeg

World's Largest Snake Den at Narcisse

"Manitoba's red-sided garter snake dens are world famous for being the largest concentration of snakes in the world. During the spring mating and the fall pre-denning periods in excess of 50,000~100,000 snakes congregate at the dens." - from web. We visited near the end of the season and the weather was not sunny and warm. So the number of snake was not very large compared to peak density. visit the following links for more info:

Government of Manitoba Website on Narcisse Snake den

Narcisse Snake den update, photo and video

Gimli and Winnipeg Beach, May 2010

Gimli is a town and municipality located in the Interlake region of south-central Manitoba, Canada. It is located on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg, about 75 kilometres north of the provincial capital Winnipeg. Its population in the 2006 Canada census was 5,797. The town and surrounding districts were once an Icelandic ethnic block settlement, and the area, known as New Iceland, is home to the largest concentration of people of Icelandic ancestry outside Iceland.
Winnipeg Beach Website
http://www.gimli.ca/

Pinawa and West Hawk Lake

From Wiki Pinawa is a small Canadian community of about 1500 residents located in southeastern Manitoba, 110 kilometres north-east of Winnipeg. The town is situated on the Canadian Shield within the western boundary of Whiteshell Provincial Park, which lies near the Manitoba-Ontario provincial boundary.

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

Fort Whyte Alive is a 640 acre nature centre inside the city with 30-head Bison Prairie herd, lakes, trails, marsh and many facilities. Nice place to get familiar with the nature specially for the kids. Earth day was celebrated here with many activities and events. Location: Winnipeg
http://www.fortwhyte.org/

Oak Hammock Marsh

"Oak Hammock Marsh is listed as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention, and is also a globally significant Important Bird Area."... from Wiki
http://www.oakhammockmarsh.ca/

Stonewall Quarry Park

"Quarring at Stonewall began 1880 as part of an emerging limestone industry in southern and central Manitoba. The Stonewall quarries were noted for their continuous production of various limestone-based construction materials. The quarries were long the economic mainstay of the town...... more significant aspect of the Stonewall trade was to be the high quality quicklime produced in the kilns by burning lime stone" - from park info board Location: Stonewall, Manitoba
http://www.stonewall.ca/residents/quarry.asp

Assiniboine Park Zoo

Assiniboine Park Zoo is a zoo that was established in 1904 at the West end of Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Zoological Society of Manitoba was formed in 1956 to provide the vision and funding for the zoo.

Manitoba Marine Museum, Selkirk

It is 45 minutes drive from Winnipeg. The Marine museum seems interesting but it was in winter sleep.
http://www.marinemuseum.ca/
http://www.cityofselkirk.com/

Kids events in the Forks

The Forks is crowded with different types of program, festival all year round. It 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/

Lockport March 2010

Lockport is a small unincorporated community located just north of the city of Winnipeg. It is the site of ancient agricultural inhabitation, a migratory bird (the North American White Pelican) feeding area as well as a dam and lock of the Red River. The Red River Floodway joins the Red River just down river from the dam. The bridge and locks at Lockport (completed in 1910), submerged the St. Andrews Rapids (a natural bridge) in order to make the Red River navigable both to and from Lake Winnipeg. A small Provincial Park exists in Lockport. Residents of Lockport include the eagle which can be seen hunting along the Red River. Lockport is also known for having some of the best fishing in the world to both humans and birds. Specifically, the North Red River running through Lockport is known for some of the best fishing for trophy channel catfish. Lockport is an ancient settlement, predating European history by thousands of years. It is one of the oldest known settlements in Canada.
http://www.lockportmanitoba.ca/

Lower Fort Garry on March 2010

"Lower Fort Garry was built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company on the western bank of the Red River, twenty miles north of the original Fort Garry, which is now in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is the oldest intact stone fort in North America, and treaty number one was signed there"..... from Wiki
http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/mb/fortgarry/index.aspx

Frozen Lake at Gimli

The surface area of Lake Winnipeg is about 24,500 sq km which is about one sixth of Bangladesh and it is the 11th largest fresh water lake in the world. I was totally amazed by the frozen surface of this lake. People was driving their Picup truck, SUV on the lake surface. Gimli is a town and municipality located in the Interlake region of south-central Manitoba, Canada. It is located on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg, about 75 kilometres north of the provincial capital Winnipeg. Its population in the 2006 Canada census was 5,797. The town and surrounding districts were once an Icelandic ethnic block settlement, and the area, known as New Iceland, is home to the largest concentration of people of Icelandic ancestry outside Iceland.
http://www.gimli.ca/

Frozen Lake at Winnipeg Beach

The surface area of Lake Winnipeg is about 24,500 sq km which is about one sixth of Bangladesh and it is the 11th largest fresh water lake in the world. I was totally amazed by the frozen surface of this lake. People was driving their Picup truck, SUV on the lake surface.

Winnipeg Beach Website

Winter in Lake Manitoba and Interlake Region

Lake Manitoba has a surface area of 4,624 sq km which makes it 33th largest freshwater lake in the world. And the whole surface remains frozen in the winter.

Festival Du Voyager 2010

It is claimed to be the largest winter festival in western Canada. The temperature was not low enough. So the snow sculptures seemed dirty and off white. From Wiki.."The Festival du Voyageur (literally translated as Festival of the Traveller) is an annual 10-day winter festival which takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada during February. "Voyageur" refers to those who worked for a fur trading company and usually travelled by canoe. This event is held in Winnipeg's French Quarter, Saint-Boniface, and is Western Canada's largest winter festival. The event celebrates Canada's fur trading past and her unique French heritage and culture through entertainment, arts and crafts, music, exhibits and displays."
http://www.festivalvoyageur.mb.ca/

Forks Winter Park in February 2010

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/

Skating in St. Vital Park

Assiniboine Park in Winter

Assiniboine Park is a park in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was established in 1904 and is located north of the Assiniboine Forest. Today, it covers 1,100 acres (4.5 km2), 400 acres (1.6 km2) of these are designed in the English landscape style. The Park includes the 700-acre (2.8 km2) Assiniboine Forest, Assiniboine Park Zoo, Assiniboine Park Conservatory, the historic Assiniboine Park Pavilion, formal and informal gardens, a sculpture garden, a miniature railway, and an outdoor bandshell theatre for performing arts and numerous other attractions. A private minimum gauge railway named the Assiniboine Valley Railway is located next to the park and the zoo, while the park has its own miniature railway near the zoo

Blizzard/Snow Storm in Winnipeg in 2010

Downtown Winnipeg in January 2010

Manitoba Museum

The museum is the largest heritage centre in Manitoba and focuses on human and natural heritage. It has planetarium shows and a Science Gallery hall. The Manitoba Museum is the first Canadian museum to recreate marine life as it was 450 million years ago. A virtual underwater observatory shows the Hudson’s Bay region during the Ordovician period. Manitoba is home to the giant trilobite. The collections in the museum reflect the heritage of Manitoba. The interpretive galleries are Earth History, Arctic/Sub-Arctic, Boreal Forest, Nonsuch, Hudson's Bay Company, Parklands/Mixed Woods, Grasslands and Urban. Together these explore the history and environment of the province from its northern Arctic coast to its southern prairie grasslands. In particular the museum is famed for its Urban Gallery, which recreates a Winnipeg street scene in the 1920s. The full-size replica ship Nonsuch, whose voyage in 1668 led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company, is the museum's showcase piece.
http://www.manitobamuseum.ca

Forks Winter Park in January 2010

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/

Christmas Lighting 2009

Winnipeg is decorated with thousands of light in Holiday Season every year. I love to roam around to watch this spectacular show in this part of the year.

Crescent park and others

All these photo were taken by my cell phone. So resolution is not high.

Island of Light

The Light show is an annual event of Portage La Prairie which is sponsored by Manitoba Hydro. It takes place in holiday season (from middle of December to Middle of January as far as I remember). The Island Lake park is decorated with thousands of light creating different theme.
http://www.city.portage-la-prairie.mb.ca/community/islandoflights.asp

Icy Birds Hill Provincial Park

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Hill_Provincial_Park Birds Hill Provincial Park is a provincial park in Manitoba, Canada. It is located 24 kilometres north of Winnipeg on Highway 59, (50°01′01″N 96°53′01″W) and covers approximately 8300 acres (35.1 square kilometres). The area (and park) is named after Dr. Curtis Bird, first speaker of the Manitoba provincial legislature in 1870, whose father had been a factor in the Hudson's Bay Company. Since the area is higher than the surrounding terrain, what is now Birds Hill Park served early settlers as a refuge from flooding in the years 1826 and 1852. It is part of the RM of Springfield, with a relatively small portion lying within the Rural Municipality of St. Clements. The provincial park features a mixture of aspen and oak forest with open prairie/savannah, spruce, bog areas and mixed boreal forest communities, not commonly found so close together.
http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/parks/popular_parks/central/birds.html

Frozen Dam

It was the Seven Sisters Dam which I visited few months earlier. At first look I thought the dam had been shut down due to ice. After few moments I realized it was running in full swing and water was running beneath the ice surface. Seven Sisters Generating Station is Manitoba Hydro's largest producer of electricity on the Winnipeg River in southeastern Manitoba. Located about 90 kilometres (km) east of the City of Winnipeg, The generating station operates at a maximum capacity of 150 megawatts (MW) and can produce. Seven Sisters is a "run-of-river" design, which means that water flowing into the generating station from upstream is used immediately, not stored in the forebay for later use. The spillway at Seven Sisters is flanked to the north and south by non-overflow, concrete wingwalls. In winter, to prevent an ice buildup on the concrete of the spillway and wingwalls, which would create a pressure hazard, an air bubbler system has been installed to stop ice from forming. For the same reason, the spillway gates have been fitted with heaters
http://www.ieee.ca/millennium/seven_sisters/seven_history.html

Winter in Whiteshell Park

Whiteshell Provincial Park is a 2,729 km2 park centrally located in Canada in the province of Manitoba. It can be found in the southeast of the province along the Manitoba-Ontario border, approximately 130 km east of Winnipeg. The park is located in the Canadian Shield region and has many rivers, remote lakes, boreal forest and bare granite ridges. It provides a variety of recreational opportunities as well as cottaging, camping and boating. The park has rare and interesting archeological sites of petroforms on flat granite ridges.
http://www.whiteshell.mb.ca/

Lower Fort Garry - National Historic Site

"Lower Fort Garry was built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company on the western bank of the Red River, twenty miles north of the original Fort Garry, which is now in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is the oldest intact stone fort in North America, and treaty number one was signed there"..... from Wiki
http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/mb/fortgarry/index.aspx

St. Leon Wind Farm

As part of a graduate course we visited the only wind farm in Manitoba. The 99-megawatt (MW) wind energy project in St. Leon occupies over 9,000 hectares of land (23,000 acres). Only 5% of this land is used for structure and access road, rest is used for cultivation.The wind farm consists of 63 turbines, each 80 metres high, equipped with three 41-metre blades. At its highest point, a single turbine (with blades) reaches about 120 metres, or roughly 34 storeys, into the air. The wind farm is situated on the Pembina Escarpment, which rises above the surrounding plains, exposing the turbines to the prevailing prairie winds. Combined, the 63 turbines produce enough electricity to meet the needs of 35,000 homes.

Grand Beach

Grand Beach Provincial Park is a provincial park in Manitoba, Canada. It is located on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg, and has large white sand dunes and ancient beaches from the end of the last ice age. This park is about an hour of driving north of Winnipeg. There are many tourist businesses, a boardwalk, over a mile of beach, beautiful sunsets, and there are tens of thousands of visitors to this park. The beach truly is grand, and one of a kind in North America. Lake Winnipeg is one of the largest fresh water lakes in the world, and the largest within the borders of southern Canada. The park is a sanctuary for the piping plover bird that is an endangered species and nests on the beach. The park has a campground, hiking trails, skiing trials, and is close to a small town. There are bald eagles, bears, sea gulls, terns, pelicans, and a wide variety of other species that live in the area.
Grand Beach Provincial Park (Manitoba Govt. Website)

Victoria beach

Victoria Beach is a rural municipality located on the southeastern shores of Lake Winnipeg. It is approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Winnipeg the provincial capital of Manitoba, Canada. The Rural Municipality (R.M.) of Victoria Beach is a so called "resort municipality". Some of the finest beaches in Manitoba are located within the boundaries of the municipality.

Dams on Winnipeg River

Several dams make winnipeg river very attractive for a summer tour. It was late fall. Hope to be back there in next summer. Six hydroelectric dams bisect the Winnipeg River in Manitoba, generating a total of 583 megawatts annually. From east to west, generating stations are located at Pointe du Bois, Slave Falls, Seven Sisters Falls, McArthur Falls, Great Falls and Pine Falls. All Manitoba dams are owned and operated by Manitoba Hydro.

Pinawa Dam and provincial park

"Pinawa Dam was Manitoba’s first hydro-electric generating station. The station began delivering power in 1906 and was closed in 1951 to allow the full flow of the Winnipeg River to serve the Seven Sisters Hydro Station built downstream."...From Web.. To me,whole place looks awsome. We visited new Pinawa city and the hanging bridge as well

http://www.pinawa.com/
http://www.granite.mb.ca/oldpinawa/index.html
Manitoba Govt Website about Pinawa Provincial Park


Seven Sisters Dam

The first dam I visited.. Seven Sisters Generating Station is Manitoba Hydro's largest producer of electricity on the Winnipeg River in southeastern Manitoba. Located about 90 kilometres (km) east of the City of Winnipeg, it is fondly and respectfully described by engineers who designed and built it as the river's mightiest generating station. The generating station operates at a maximum capacity of 150 megawatts (MW) and can produce. Seven Sisters is a "run-of-river" design, which means that water flowing into the generating station from upstream is used immediately, not stored in the forebay for later use. The spillway at Seven Sisters is flanked to the north and south by non-overflow, concrete wingwalls. In winter, to prevent an ice buildup on the concrete of the spillway and wingwalls, which would create a pressure hazard, an air bubbler system has been installed to stop ice from forming. For the same reason, the spillway gates have been fitted with heaters.
http://www.ieee.ca/millennium/seven_sisters/seven_history.html

Morden Apple and Corn Festival: Part 2

http://www.cornandapple.com/

Morden Apple and Corn Festival: Part 1

Festival Commitee claims the parade to be the largest one in the province. Morden is the home of Canadian Fossil Discovery Center and an Agricultural Research Center Morden is a large town with a population of 6571 located in the southern Manitoba. The very first Corn and Apple Festival, held in 1967, was intended to celebrate Canada's centennial. The festival name was coined after the prairies long growing season, especially when it came to corn and apples. The festival has continued on since 1967 and is now recognized as the town's annual festival. The festival is held in the centre of town, along main street, as it symbolizes "the heart of the community". Every year visitors come from all over Canada to participate in the festivities. Visitors can expect delicious food, free corn and apple cider, as well as the borscht donated by a nearby Hutterite colony, which, in recent years, has become a staple in the festival. Also featured is live entertainment, craft shows, and more.
http://www.cornandapple.com/

Hecla Provincial Park

Hecla-Grindstone Provincial Park comprises Hecla Island, Grindstone (the area located on the mainland peninsula along the west shore of Lake Winnipeg), Black Island and a number of other small islands. Hecla Island is approximately 1084 square km and is surrounded by Lake Winnipeg, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world
http://www.heclatourism.mb.ca/
http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/parks/popular_parks/central/hecla.html

St. Norbert Heritage Park

St Norbert Provincial Heritage Park is located in St Norbert, which is now a ward of WINNIPEG. Designated as a park in 1985, St Norbert Provincial Heritage Park traces the development of the area from Aboriginal use to first a French-speaking Métis settlement and then a French-Canadian agricultural community of the pre-World War I period. St Norbert was one of a number of French-speaking communities established along the RED RIVER in the 19th century, south of what was then Winnipeg. This park brings together the Bohémier, Turenne and Delorme houses. Both the families and their log and frame houses are representative of the distinctive French-Canadian and Métis settlement in southern Manitoba. The park includes a self-guiding trail, and tours of the restored Bohémier and Turenne houses (built in 1888 and 1871, respectively) are available from mid-May to Labour Day

Manitoba Countrysides

Country sides in South Western Manitoba. Pelican Lake in Ninette is very beautiful and fresh. There is a TB sanatorium in the town. Wind turbines, Sunflower field, Canola Filed and much more. Yellow and green everywhere.... I love the tour...

Sunflower Fields

International Peace Garden

The International Peace Garden is a 3.65 sq. mi. (9.46 km²) park located on the international border between Canada and the United States, in the state of North Dakota and the province of Manitoba. Established on July 14, 1932, the park plants over 150,000 flowers each year. Main features of the garden include an 18-foot (5.5-m) floral clock display, fountains, a chime, and twin 120 foot (37 m) concrete towers straddling the border with a peace chapel at their base. The chapel walls are inscribed with notable quotes about peace. The state of North Dakota has as one of its nicknames The Peace Garden State, and places this motto on its license plates. Some building remains of the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001 have been placed in part of the garden.
http://www.peacegarden.com/

Spruce Wood Provincial Park

Spruce Woods Provincial Park is located in south-central Manitoba, Canada. This park has large sand dunes and the Assiniboine River passes through it. Spruce Woods Provincial Park was established in 1970 and occupies approximately 7,460 acres of the Spruce Woods Forest Preserve.This beautiful retreat is widely considered one of the best Provincial Parks in Manitoba. Kiche Manitou Campground offers excellent camping facilities as well as swimming, fishing, hiking, and picnic areas. Kiche Manitou Beach is used extensively in the summer by both the young and the young at heart.

Threshermen's Reunion 2009

From web - The Manitoba Agricultural Museum is dedicated to collecting vintage farm machinery and buildings from 1900 and beyond. Located on 50 acres (200,000 m2) in Austin, Manitoba, to date they have amassed over 500 piece of machinery and a pioneer village consisting of more than 20 buildings complete with artifacts. This is Canada’s largest collection of vintage equipment. The facilities include a camping and picnic grounds and a souvenir shop. The Threshermen's Reunion offers a large collection of antique steam and gas tractors as well as the other equipment that was used on early farms. Every afternoon during the reunion a parade showcases some 12 steam engines and dozens of "gas" tractors and machinery. After the parade venture into the fair grounds and watch an early steam powered saw mill blaze through logs to make planks that were the foundation of pioneer buildings. you can find a steam tractor steaming corn! Every evening there is a rodeo followed by a free dance.
http://www.ag-museum.mb.ca/

Lily Festival 2009 at Neepawa

From wiki - Neepawa is a town in Manitoba, Canada located on the Yellowhead Highway at the intersection with Highway 5. As of 2006 its population was 3,298. Neepawa was incorporated as a town in 1883. It is located in the Rural Municipality of Langford and bordered to the north by the Rural Municipality of Rosedale. Neepawa is the self-proclaimed Lily capital of the world in part because of its Lily Festival. The town has also been named Manitoba's Most Beautiful Town more than any other community in the province.

http://www.lilyfestival.com/

Riding Mountain National Park

From web - Riding Mountain National Park is a national park in Manitoba, Canada. The park sits atop the highest part of the Manitoba Escarpment. Consisting of a protected area 2,969 km2 (1,146 sq mi),[1] the forested parkland stands in sharp contrast to the surrounding prairie farmland. The park is home to wolves, moose, elk, black bears, hundreds of bird species, countless insects and a captive bison herd. The park was first protected in 1929 and had much of its public infrastructure created during the 1930s by labourers participating in Canada's great depression relief programs. Much of this early construction survives to this day. During World War II it was home to a Prisoner of War camp which has since been dismantled. In 1986, Riding Mountain was designated a biosphere reserve by UNESCO.
http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/mb/riding/index.aspx

Picnic at Winnipeg Beach

From web - Winnipeg Beach is located on the west shore of Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is a popular swimming and cottage destination that began mainly in the early 1900s with train access to the area from Winnipeg.[1] The small town of Winnipeg Beach once had a dance hall, roller coaster, luxurious hotel, and was the main destination for many when Winnipeg was one of the largest cities in Canada. Today the area is still popular, and was the main filming location for the TV series named Falcon Beach
http://www.winnipegbeachmanitoba.ca/

Vintage Car show at Portage la Prairie

From web - Portage la Prairie (pronounced /ˈpɔrtɨdʒ lə ˈprɛəri/ in English) is a city in the Central Plains Region of Manitoba, Canada. As of 2006, the population was 12,728. The area of the city was 24.67 square kilometers (9.5 sq mi). It is located approximately 70 kilometres (45 miles) west of Winnipeg and sits on the Assiniboine River, which flooded the town persistently until a ditch north to Lake Manitoba (the Assiniboine River Floodway) was built to divert the flood waters. The name is derived from the French word portage, which means to carry a canoe overland between waterways. In this case the "portage" was between the Assiniboine River and Lake Manitoba, over la prairie. According to Environment Canada, Portage la Prairie has the most sunny days in warm months in Canada.
http://www.city.portage-la-prairie.mb.ca/

Delta Marsh and research station, Delta Beach

Delta marsh is one of the largest fresh water marsh in the world. We went there to see a research station of University of Manitoba. Delta Marsh consists of an extensive open marsh located near the south shore of Lake Manitoba. It is a wildlife breeding and migration staging area of major importance. The wooded dune ridge is also migratory pathway for passerine birds. Hunting is permitted in a portion of the marsh in the autumn by sportsmen, and by First Nations year round, under the control of the authority. Canada geese, mallard ducks, and snow geese are the three primary bird species hunted. Canada geese and mallards breed in the marsh, while snow geese are strictly seasonal migrants. Hunting of waterfowl contributes in a significant way to the local economy. Other game, including white-tailed deer, are also hunted in and around the marsh, and beaver and other fur bearing mammals are commercially trapped.
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/science/893.htm


Summer Fair 2009 at Brandon

Brandon is the 2nd largest city of Manitoba province. It's about 230 KM from Winnipeg. It was a rainy day. So photos are a bit gloomy.
http://www.brandonfairs.com/

Austin, Manitoba

Austin is a small city in Manitoba. We had a short round there on the way returning to Winnipeg from Brandon.
http://www.austinmanitoba.com/

Falcon Lake

A sudden trip to Falcon Lake, West Hawk Lake, Kenora (Ontario)..... Main purpose was long drive.. It was a cloudy day...

Yellow Festival in Early summer of 2009

I love all these yellow flowers. They are everywhere. They announce the beginning of summer.

Tulip Festival 2009 in Winnipeg

City of winnipeg called it Tulip Festival. But I cann't call it festival. There are only 10000 tulip plants donated by Dutch Ambassey. Have a look at some better version (edited) of the album in my facebook account (www.facebook.com/shahnoor) . Here is the link http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=116476&id=524093133

Mennonite Heritage Village and Tractor Show

From web..."Learn about the origin of 16th Century Russian Mennonites in a 40-acre village featuring century-old churches, schools and windmill. Explore Manitoba’s living ethnic heritage with traditional Mennonite food, Special Event Days, pioneer skills demonstrations, farm animals, horse-drawn wagon rides, the general store and much more. It’s worth the trip!"
http://www.mennoniteheritagevillage.com/

Manitoba Stampede 2008

It is one of Canada's largest professional rodeos. A pro-rodeo event on the Canadian Tour circuit, the Manitoba Stampede stars some of the top names in bull riding, bronco- busting, tie down roping, bareback riding and steer wrestling circles. Also check out the fast paced thoroughbred chariot and pony chariot and chuckwagon racing. For those looking for a laugh, look out for the Rodeo Clown Bert Davis (Coppertown Clown) coming all the way from California. At an altogether lower tempo, the Agricultural Fair section of the Stampede features dairy shows, light and heavy horse shows, kid's pig scramble and a Youth Stars of Manitoba Talent Competition. All this and balloon art, outdoor stage entertainment and a Children’s petting zoo too make this a great event for all the family. Commercial displays and exhibits complete the line-up at this popular regional show
http://www.manitobastampede.ca/
http://www.town.morris.mb.ca/stampede.html

Money Making - Canadian Royal Mint

Winnipeg section is the largest of the two mints in Canada and produces all the circulation coins of Canada. It also produces coins for more than 80 country. It can produce 15 million coins per day. In 2005 it produced about 1.062 BILLION coins!!!! And from 1980 to 2005, it has manufactured approximately 52 billion coins for 62 countries. Cooool!!! Sorry that I could not take photos inside the factory..:(. It's restricted....
http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-the-mint/visit-the-mint-1200026

Festival Du Voyager 2008

This is the largest winter festival of Western Canada. The main theme of the festival is the history of fur trading of Manitoba. Also there are lots of Ice sculpture designed by renowned ice sculpturist. There is a model fort inside the park. They call it "Fort Gibralter" There are trading post, blacksmith shop, resting place, wood shop, traders home inside the Fort. There are many people giving live demonstration about the life style of the fur traders. They wear the old style dress and acts like real fur traders.
http://www.festivalvoyageur.mb.ca/

Forks Winter Park in Winter 2008

Amazing experience.... There are skating trail, ice hockey ground, fake garden. Everything on the frozen river. The skating trail is about 8.54 km long and well maintained by private company. And also enjoyed " Chinese Rat Year" program in the fork market.

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











The first one is the main building and second one is the main street.


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 Fire Vehicle




Photo: Classic Car


Photo: Snow Carts..





Photo: Old Funeral Wagon

http://www.mennoniteheritagevillage.com/

Tulip Festival

Photo1: Tulip



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


Photo2: Opening Ceremony


Photo3: Opening Ceremony


Photo4: I Love that bench


Photo5 : Yellow Tulip




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Photo 18: Nice fountain along with a beautiful sculpture

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Photo 21: The buliding with glass houses many sculptures


Photo 22: Some Tulip waiting to flourish

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