The City Of Winnipeg

Jan 18
18:44

2007

Sharon White

Sharon White

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Winnipeg is the city which has a great amount of history. The Museum of Man and Nature is a superb place to discover much of this history as is The Forks. The Forks is a riverside park at the forks of the Red and Assiniboine rivers where much of the city history took place and can be learned through a historic stroll along Riverwalk. Restaurants and shops are housed in redeveloped factories and stables. The city largest park is Assiniboine Park which aside from its natural beauty features an English garden, a forty hectare zoo, a conservatory and a sculpture garden.

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Just North of Winnipeg is the country fifth largest lake and the dominant geographical feature of Manitoba. Lake Winnipeg stretches far into the untouched parts of the Northern Canada. The Southern part of the lake provided splendid recreation in the form of beaches including sand dunes for people and wetlands for animals. There are many wonderful parks in the province. In the west is popular and spectacularly beautiful Riding Mountain National Park which is mostly highland and rises from the surrounding prairies in a three thousand square kilometers island.

Aside from the popular city of Winnipeg far up north in the remote and forbidding part of the province where it snows for ten months of the year,The City Of Winnipeg Articles there is a small town that also draws international visitors. Churchill is one of the oldest parts of the country in terms of European exploration and was the first Hudson Bay Company outpost site which was set up in 1717. What makes this town interesting and worthy of international attention is that it sits right in the middle of a polar bear migration route, hence the title ‘Polar Bear Capital of the World.’

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