Friendly and Natural Manitoba

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

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/