LEARN MOREABOUTMANITOBAHOMECOMING2010INSIDE! WINNIPEG VISITOR’S GUIDE

TO ALL THE THINGS TO SEE AND DO WELCOME TO WINNIPEG

This year’s Guide is your ticket to everything happening in Winnipeg in 2010. Destination Winnipeg has teamed up with Manitoba Homecoming 2010 and Travel Manitoba to bring you a Visitor’s Guide packed with even more attractions and special events! Add to this, Winnipeg’s designation as one of Canada’s Cultural Capitals for 2010 and you have even more reasons to make this year your best vacation ever. Welcome to Winnipeg – you ain’t seen nothing yet!

2 Your ticket to arts, culture, This year, Destination Winnipeg along with eight local arts groups, Travel Manitoba and festivals, special events and more! Manitoba Homecoming 2010 launched Winnipeg has always off ered visitors a wide the Culture on Every Corner campaign to range of things to see and do, but with so promote Winnipeg’s busy year-round calendar much going on in 2010, it’s an embarrassment of performances and exhibits. The website, www.cultureoneverycorner.ca and online of riches. This year’s Guide is evidence of this community, the Cultured Club is a fantastic way as it’s our largest and most comprehensive of having your fi nger on the pulse of Winnipeg’s ever. The special Manitoba Homecoming 2010 arts scene, including access to special ticket off ers section at the back is your go-to guide for for upcoming shows and more. Homecoming’s signature events. Add to this Travel Manitoba’s listing of the province’s top events and you have a complete Guide to the Book online and get biggest, the smallest, the most popular, the the package deal quirkiest and the best of what Winnipeg and With so much going on, you’ll want to take Manitoba have to off er you, your family and advantage of our package off ers. From family your friends in 2010. getaways, to girlfriends’ shopping and spa packages, to couples’ escapes and more, our Winnipeg’s designation as one of Canada’s packages come complete or a la carte so that you Cultural Capitals for 2010 solidifi es what we can choose from a great selection of attraction here have always believed; Winnipeg is a hub passes based on what you like to see and do. for some of the fi nest cultural and performing To book online packages, visit the Destination arts groups in Canada. Planned events to Winnipeg website and select the book in recognize and support the many benefi ts of Winnipeg link, or go direct at arts and culture in the community include a www.destinationwinnipegreservations.ca. free River Barge Festival at The Forks, a story- Select from our regular attraction passes and telling project in every neighbourhood, the packages or build your own from a large fi rst Canadian International Cello Festival, a assortment of Winnipeg-based Homecoming 2010 off ers. A complete list of Manitoba-wide massive multi-site exhibition of contemporary Homecoming packages can be found at indigenous art from around the world, and www.manitobahomecoming2010.com. much more. We’ll continue to update activities on our online calendar of events and with links to the Winnipeg Arts Council. Winnipeg – your ticket to fun in 2010

Top left : Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail Bottom Left: Winnipeg Skyline Above: Winnipeg International Children’s Festival

3 A Message from the Premier A Message from the Mayor Message du premier ministre Message du maire

Welcome to Manitoba. From all corners of our It is my pleasure to welcome you to Winnipeg, province we are thrilled to present an array of the Heart of the Continent. world-class getaways. I invite you to fi nd the An exciting and event-fi lled year is planned for right destination for you and your family with Manitoba Homecoming 2010. This year-long the 2010 travel guides. celebration is the perfect time to experience the Whether it be the untouched wilderness and very best our city has to off er, from unique dining, pristine lakes of our provinicial and national great shopping destinations, exciting live sporting parks, the remarkable variety of restaurants, events and arts and culture on every corner. music, visual arts, festivals and cultural events While here, I invite you to take in one of our city’s in our vibrant multicultural urban sities, or many exciting year-round festivals. Discover your watching the Aurora Borealis dance in the joie de vivre at the Festival du Voyageur, take a trip northern sky, the great destinations of Manitoba around the world at Folklorama, enjoy live outdoor are sure to please. music at the Winnipeg Jazz Festival or take in a If you are a fi rst time visitor to our great cutting-edge performance at the Winnipeg Fringe province or a local explorer searching for new Theatre Festival. Whatever your interest, there is experiences, I encourage you to discover something for everyone in Winnipeg. Manitoba. Your next great adventure awaits you! On behalf of my esteemed colleagues at City Hall and all the citizens of Winnipeg, welcome to our city, I hope you enjoy your stay. Bienvenue au Manitoba. De tous les coins de la province, nous sommes ravis de vous présenter une panoplie d’escapades. Je vous invite à C’est avec plaisir que je vous souhaite la trouver la destination qui vous convient, à vous bienvenue à Winnipeg, au cœur du continent. et votre famille, dans les guides de voyage 2010. Une année emballante et féconde en Qu’il s’agisse de la faune et des lacs vierges événements est prévue pour Retrouvailles de nos parcs provinciaux et nationaux, de la Manitoba 2010. Cette année de célébrations variété remarquable en matière de restaurants, constitue le moment opportun pour découvrir de musique, d’arts visuels, de festivals et le meilleur de ce qu’off re notre ville, comme d’événements culturels dans nos villes vibrantes des expériences gastronomiques uniques, et multiculturelles, ou encore des aurores d’excellentes destinations de magasinage et boréales qui dansent dans le ciel nordique, les des manifestations sportives en direct des plus superbes destinations du Manitoba sauront excitantes, sans oublier les arts et la culture à sûrement plaire. chaque coin de rue. Si vous êtes un nouveau visiteur dans notre belle Pendant votre séjour, je vous invite à participer à province ou un explorateur local à la recherche l’un des nombreux festivals annuels. Découvrez de diff érentes expériences, je vous encourage à la joie de vivre au Festival du Voyageur, faites découvrir le Manitoba. Votre prochaine grande un voyage autour du monde à Folklorama, aventure vous attend! appréciez des spectacles en plein air au Festival de jazz de Winnipeg ou assistez à une pièce de théâtre d’avant-garde au Festival de théâtre Fringe de Winnipeg. Peu importe vos intérêts, il y de quoi pour tous les goûts! Greg Selinger Au nom de mes collègues hautement respectés Premier of Manitoba à l’Hôtel de ville et des citoyens de Winnipeg, Premier ministre du Manitoba je vous accueille dans notre ville et j’espère que vous profi terez de votre séjour. Warm regards, Sincèrement,

Sam Katz Mayor of Winnipeg Maire de Winnipeg

4 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Corydon Avenue ...... 8 & 53 Gas Station Theatre ...... 12 Prairie Dog Central Railway ...... 46 Downtown ...... 9 Geocaching and GPS Adventures ...... 59 Prairie Theatre Exchange (PTE)...... 14 Exchange District ...... 9 & 53 The Golf Dome ...... 13 Promenade Taché / Grey Nuns Walkway . . . . . 38 The Forks ...... 9 Graffi ti Gallery...... 31 Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders Old St. Boniface / Grand Beach Provincial Park ...... 50 of Canada Museum ...... 39 Winnipeg’s French Quarter ...... 9 Grand Prix Amusements ...... 20 Rainbow Stage ...... 16 Osborne Street South ...... 9 Grant Park Shopping Centre ...... 52 Red River Co-op Speedway ...... 16 Osborne Village ...... 9 & 53 Grant’s Old Mill ...... 36 Red River Exhibition ...... 26 Entertainment...... 10 Harbour View Recreation Complex ...... 50 Red River Valley Swap Meet Family Fun ...... 20 Heartland Travel - & Old Car Festival ...... 25 Festivals and Events ...... 22 Haunted Winnipeg Bus Tours ...... 59 Riel House National Historic Site ...... 39 Galleries ...... 30 Historical Museum of Routes on the Red ...... 61 Homecoming Events ...... 66 St. James-Assiniboia ...... 36 Ross House Museum ...... 39 Museums / Historical ...... 34 IMAX® Theatre Winnipeg ...... 13 Royal Canadian Mint ...... 47 Of Interest ...... 42 Ivan Franko Museum ...... 36 Royal Winnipeg Rifl es Parks ...... 48 Johnston Terminal ...... 44 Regimental Museum...... 39 Shopping ...... 52 Jazz Winnipeg Festival ...... 26 St. Andrews Rectory National Historic Site . . . 39 Sports ...... 54 Ken Segal Gallery ...... 31 St. Boniface Cathedral-Basilica ...... 39 Golf ...... 56 Kildonan Park ...... 50 St. John’s Cathedral and Cemetery ...... 39 Tours ...... 58 Kildonan Place Shopping Centre ...... 52 St. Vital Centre ...... 53 King’s Park ...... 50 St. Vital Park ...... 51 2010 CN Canadian Women’s Open ...... 28 La Barrière Park ...... 51 Saison Voyageur...... 23 Aboriginal Day Live 2010 ...... 26 Leo Mol Sculpture Garden ...... 49 Sarasvati Productions Femfest 2010 ...... 28 Academy Road ...... 53 Little Mountain Park ...... 51 Science Gallery ...... 37 Air Force Heritage Museum and Air Park . . . . . 34 Little Opera Company ...... 13 Seven Oaks House Museum ...... 40 Assiniboia Downs ...... 54 Living Prairie Museum ...... 36 The Skateboard Plaza at the Forks ...... 45 Assiniboine Forest ...... 48 Louis Riel’s Tomb ...... 36 Speedworld Indoor Kart Track ...... 16 Assiniboine Park ...... 49 Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site Splash Dash River Tours, Charters Assiniboine Park Conservatory ...... 49 of Canada ...... 36 and The River Spirit Water Bus ...... 61 Assiniboine Park Zoo ...... 49 Lyric Theatre ...... 49 Springhill Winter Sports Park ...... 16 Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail ...... 23 Maison Gabrielle - Roy ...... 36 Team Canada Volleyball ...... 55 BDO Classic Canadian Open ...... 23 The Manito Ahbee Festival ...... 29 Teddy Bears’ Picnic ...... 25 Birds Hill Provincial Park ...... 50 Manitoba Chamber Orchestra ...... 13 Theatre in the Cemetery ...... 18 Bishop Velychkovsky Martyr’s Shrine ...... 34 Manitoba Children’s Museum ...... 21 Theatre Projects Manitoba ...... 18 Black Hole Theatre Company ...... 10 Manitoba Crafts Museum & Library ...... 37 Thin Air, Winnipeg International The Burton Cummings Theatre ...... 11 Manitoba Electrical Museum & Writers Festival ...... 28 Canad Inns Winter Wonderland ...... 29 Education Centre ...... 37 Thunder Rapids Amusement Park ...... 21 Canada Day Celebrations ...... 26 Manitoba Legislative Building ...... 45 Tinkertown Family Fun Park ...... 21 Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet ...... 11 Manitoba Moose ...... 54 Tournees Marche-Donc St. Boniface Tours . . . 61 Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth ...... 42 The Manitoba Museum ...... 37 Transcona Historical Museum ...... 40 Celebrations Dinner Theatre ...... 11 Manitoba Opera ...... 13 U-Puttz Black Light Miniature Golf ...... 21 Centennial Concert Hall ...... 11 Manitoba Theatre Centre ...... 14 Ukrainian Museum of Canada ...... 40 Centre culturel franco-manitobain (CCFM). . . 12 Manitoba Theatre for Young People ...... 21 University of Manitoba (Bisons) ...... 55 Le Cercle Molière ...... 12 Maple Grove Tea Room University of Manitoba ...... 47 Cinematheque ...... 12 at Kennedy House ...... 38 University of Winnipeg (Wesmen) ...... 55 The Circle of Life Thunderbird House ...... 43 Mayberry Fine Art ...... 31 University of Winnipeg ...... 47 City Hall ...... 43 McPhillips Station Casino ...... 14 Upper Fort Garry Gate ...... 47 cityplace ...... 52 Mennonite Heritage Village ...... 38 Urban Shaman Gallery ...... 32 Club Regent Casino ...... 12 Mike Weir Miracle Golf Drive for Kids ...... 25 Virtuosi Concerts ...... 18 Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface ...... 43 Millennium Library ...... 46 Wah-sa Gallery ...... 32 Costume Museum of Canada ...... 35 M.S. River Rouge ...... 59 The Wall Through Time ...... 45 Dalnavert Museum ...... 35 MTC Master Playwright Festival West End BIZ Mural Walking Tours ...... 61 Decoding the ancient Egyptian and Churchill Fest 2010...... 24 West End Cultural Centre ...... 18 Masonic Mysteries of the MTS Centre ...... 14 Western Canada Aviation Museum ...... 40 Manitoba Legislative Building...... 58 Muddy Water Tours ...... 60 Winnie the Bear Statue ...... 49 Doors Open Winnipeg ...... 25 Le Musée de Saint-Boniface / Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival ...... 29 Esplanade Riel Pedestrian Bridge ...... 43 St. Boniface Museum ...... 38 Winnipeg Art Gallery ...... 32 Exchange District National Historic Site ...... 43 Museum Galleries ...... 37 Winnipeg Blue Bombers ...... 55 Exchange District Walking Tours ...... 59 National Aboriginal Day ...... 26 Winnipeg Chinese Cultural Explore Manitoba Centre ...... 44 North Point Douglas Tour ...... 60 and Community Centre ...... 47 Le Festival du Voyageur ...... 24 Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre . . . 46 Winnipeg Comedy Festival ...... 25 Festival Park ...... 44 Old St. Boniface Walking Tours ...... 60 Winnipeg Folk Festival...... 28 Fire Fighters Museum of Winnipeg ...... 35 Oodena Celebration Circle ...... 45 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival ...... 28 Folklorama ...... 28 Oseredok-Ukrainian Cultural and Winnipeg Goldeyes ...... 55 The Forks Market ...... 44 Educational Centre ...... 38 Winnipeg International Children’s Festival . . . 26 The Forks Market Plaza ...... 44 Paddlewheel River Boats Ltd...... 60 Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra ...... 18 The Forks National Historic Site of Canada . . . 43 Pantages Playhouse Theatre ...... 14 Winnipeg Jewish Theatre ...... 18 The Forks National Historic Site Tours ...... 59 The Pavilion Gallery Museum ...... 49 Winnipeg Police Museum ...... 40 Fort Gibraltar ...... 45 Pineridge Hollow ...... 46 Winnipeg Pride Festival 2010 ...... 25 Fort la Reine Museum, Pioneer Village Planetarium ...... 37 Winnipeg Railway Museum ...... 40 and Tourist Bureau ...... 35 Platform: Centre for Photographic Winnipeg Square ...... 53 FortWhyte Alive ...... 45 and Digital Arts ...... 31 Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) ...... 19 Freeze Frame International Film Festival Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art ...... 32 Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s For Kids of All Ages ...... 24 Polo Park Shopping Centre ...... 53 New Music Festival ...... 24 Fun Mountain Water Slide Park ...... 20 Portage Place Shopping Centre ...... 53 Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers (WCD) . . 19 Gallery Lacosse...... 30 Power Smart / JCI Winnipeg Woodlands Gallery ...... 32 Garden City Shopping Centre ...... 52 Santa Claus Parade ...... 29

* Wheelchair accessible Some restrictions apply – call for details NEW! Events or attractions new to the Guide Manitoba Star Attraction

6 Within our Guide, we’ve grouped attractions by interest, but you can still choose to plan a day around one of Winnipeg’s great neighbourhoods. Each area of the city has been designated with a colour in the illustration below. In addition, within the Guide, each attraction features a corresponding coloured icon as well as an identifi ed neighbourhood located in each attraction’s description. Whether you’re interested in exploring each and every gallery or museum, or simply want to spend the day in one area of the city, you’ll fi nd our Guide a friendly companion.

Corydon Avenue North End Tuxedo

Downtown Osborne Village / West End / Wolseley Osborne South

Exchange District Transcona River Heights

The Forks Just Outside St. James (outside city limits)

Fort Garry St. Vital

Old St. Boniface / Winnipeg’s French Quarter City Limits

Corydon Avenue Osborne Village

7 Winnipeg’s Corydon Avenue Corydon Avenue and its surrounding neighbourhoods neighbourhood is one of the city’s hot spots for shopping, dining or an afternoon of people- are a wonderful watching at one of the many sidewalk cafes and restaurants dotting the avenue. To see and be seen, come live “La Vita Bella” while you stroll refl ection of the and explore this popular neighbourhood or while sipping a cappuccino at one of the many history and settlement cafés. Corydon Avenue comes alive during warm summer evenings as crowds of people of the city. gather to meet, greet and to have some of the best food and gelati in the city. www.corydonbiz.com

8 Downtown Old St. Boniface / Downtown Winnipeg is the heart of this Winnipeg’s French Quarter city’s business and the arts. Historic buildings Pass over the spectacular Esplanade Riel mingle with commercial skyscrapers Pedestrian Bridge and you’ll fi nd yourself in Old encircling the city’s most famous corner, St. Boniface, the heart of Winnipeg’s French Portage and Main. Nearby, you’ll fi nd great culture and home to the largest francophone restaurants, clubs, shopping, art galleries, community west of the Great Lakes. theatres and cozy cafés. There’s always St. Boniface was fi rst settled in 1818 when the something happening at the city’s newest Roman Catholic Church in Québec established sports and entertainment complex, MTS a mission to meet the cultural and religious Centre, host to concerts, special events and needs of the colony’s French and Métis the Manitoba Moose hockey team. Discover inhabitants. As the oldest part of St. Boniface, one of the city’s more than 1,100 restaurants the French Quarter is fi lled with restaurants, or take in one of the more than 130 days shops and attractions and is home to many of festivals annually – many of them in sites of historical and cultural signifi cance. Winnipeg’s downtown. www.tourismriel.com www.downtownwinnipegbiz.com Osborne Street South Exchange District Osborne Street South is the heart of Riverview / Lord Roberts, one of Winnipeg’s Established in the early 20th century, the oldest neighbourhoods. The business strip Exchange District National Historic Site is the follows the old River Park streetcar line along original centre of commerce and culture in Osborne Street, from the Pembina / Osborne Winnipeg. The legacy of these early boom intersection, to Jubilee Avenue. Many of the years is a spectacular collection of historic renovated buildings date back to the early buildings, now a popular backdrop for feature 20th century, and murals depict the bygone fi lm productions. The present-day Exchange era. Among the 80 businesses are stores District is a wonderful shopping and featuring used, rare and out of print books, entertainment discovery. From Winnipeg’s collectibles, antiques, hand-made pottery, hippest art galleries, restaurants, antique and unique gift items. Over 15 restaurants shops and bars, to live music and theatre, serve a variety of cuisines, including an there’s much to be explored. award-winning restaurant that highlights www.exchangedistrict.org Manitoba regional fare. There is even a movie café in the refurbished Park Theatre. The Forks www.osbornesouth.biz Located at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, The Forks has been a Osborne Village gathering place since the days of the fur Boho and artsy meet kitsch and cool in traders. Today, it is home to shops, restaurants, the creative community of Osborne Village. attractions and a year-round calendar of Early 1900s architecture stands alongside events. This park-like site highlights its past modern high-rises in Winnipeg’s most densely with the “Wall Through Time,” a graphic populated neighbourhood, housing a mix of retelling of historic events at The Forks, and young and old, hip and urban. With a spirit the Oodena Celebration Circle. Minutes from born out of the 60s, the Village is home to an Winnipeg’s downtown, The Forks is truly a incredible variety of shops, restaurants and must-see for visitors of all ages. galleries – all concentrated within four city www.theforks.com blocks. Here you’ll fi nd specialty cookware, unique jewellery, up and coming designer clothes, sushi supplies, global gifts and much more. www.osbornevillage.com

Top left: Bannatyne Avenue & Main Street - Exchange District Bottom left: Esplanade Riel Pedestrian Bridge

9 ENTERTAINMENT

There’s a good Black Hole Theatre Company reason that You’ll fi nd the Black Hole Theatre Company at University College, located on the University Winnipeg has of Manitoba’s Fort Garry Campus in south Winnipeg. The Company’s season runs from October to April, performing works by both been chosen established and emerging playwrights. The Company presents main stage productions one of Canada’s in November and March in the Black Hole Theatre at the UofM. The January production is Cultural Capitals. performed at the Gas Station Theatre as part of the MTC Master Playwright Festival. In addition, Find out for yourself! a series of fi ve free noon hour productions runs throughout the season at the Black Hole Theatre. Above: Manitoba Opera’s production of Il Travatore Below: Black Hole Theatre Company Playboy 210 Dysart Road, University of Manitoba Top Right: Royal Winnipeg Ballet – A Cinderella Story Main Campus – Fort Garry 204.474.6880 [email protected]

www.bhtc.ca

10 The Burton Celebrations Dinner Theatre Cummings Theatre Celebrations works hard to ensure your special This National Historic Site opened in 1907 and occasion, company function, or night on the was originally named for its owner, Corliss town is one to remember. Experience live Powers Walker, who brought live theatre, theatre while a delicious four-course dinner is vaudeville, concerts and silent fi lms to the served by characters from the show. city. The 1907 formal opening was a gala Celebrations’ original three-act musical presentation of Puccini’s Madama Butterfl y. comedies are based on familiar themes you The theatre played host to Nellie McClung know and love. Combine that with well known in the famous mock parliament, where songs performed live, fantastic set designs suff ragettes debated whether women should and energizing choreography, for a complete be given the vote. Renamed in honour of evening of entertainment. Winnipeg musician, Burton Cummings, the 1,700-seat venue now hosts a variety of Seating times: Wednesday to performances throughout the year. Saturday 6:30 pm / Sunday 5:00 pm. Tickets at Ticketmaster 204.780.3333 1824 Pembina Highway (Canad Inns or online at www.ticketmaster.ca Destination Centre Fort Garry) – Fort Garry 364 Smith Street – Downtown 204.982.8282 / 1.877.823.8282 [email protected] 204.956.5656 [email protected] www.celebrations.ca www.burtoncummingstheatre.ca Centennial Concert Hall Canada’s Royal Situated in the heart of Winnipeg’s Theatre Winnipeg Ballet (RWB) District, the Manitoba Centennial Centre features one of Canada’s premier performance The RWB is known worldwide for its venues – the Centennial Concert Hall. technical excellence and eclectic repertoire. Featuring over 170 performances annually and Strongly rooted in classical ballet, the RWB’s seating for 2,300, the Centennial Concert Hall performances range from the classics to welcomes acclaimed performers from home innovative contemporary ballet. and around the world, Broadway musicals, Subscriber Services Offi ce located community productions and corporate at 380 Graham Ave - 204.956.2792 events. The Centennial Concert Hall is also the proud performing home of the Manitoba Tickets at Ticketmaster 204.780.3333 Opera, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the or online at www.ticketmaster.ca Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. 555 Main Street (Centennial Concert Hall) – Tickets at Ticketmaster 204.780.3333 Exchange District or online at www.ticketmaster.ca 204.956.0183 555 Main Street – Exchange District [email protected] [email protected] www.rwb.org www.mbccc.ca

11 Centre culturel franco- Cinematheque manitobain (CCFM) Cinematheque is an intimate art fi lm The Centre culturel franco-manitobain is the theatre devoted to screening the very best focal point of French cultural life in Manitoba in Canadian, independent, foreign and and is home to nine diff erent cultural groups. alternative fi lm. The Theatre premieres new Boasting one of the most beautiful terraces in fi lms as well as the works of visiting artists Winnipeg, its bar and newly renovated venues and touring fi lm programs. Cinematheque attract people from all walks of life. operates year-round, with two fi lms showing per night from Wednesday to Sunday. Every Tuesday night, Le Mârdi Jazz features the best jazz musicians from Manitoba and around 100 Arthur Street – Exchange District the world. At La Galerie, a wide variety of 204.925.3457 / 204.925.3456 exhibitions are on display throughout the year. info@winnipegfi lmgroup.com Every year, on June 21, the CCFM presents the www.winnipegcinematheque.com best stage in town for the World Music Day. 340 Provencher Boulevard – Club Regent Casino Old St. Boniface / Winnipeg’s French Quarter Paradise awaits you in a tropical jungle 204.233.8972 atmosphere where you can explore a www.ccfm.mb.ca mystical world that includes vibrant fl owers, swaying palm trees, and the sounds of tropical birds. Enter Neptune’s Cave and explore the magic of Manitoba’s only walk- through saltwater aquarium, the largest of its kind in the Midwest. The Casino off ers exceptional dining and lounges, popular live entertainment, a dance club and a fi rst-class gaming experience all within a 182,000 square-foot, smoke-free facility. Take a trip through the tropics Monday to Saturday from 10:00 am to 3:00 am and Sunday from noon to 3:00 am. Closed on selected holidays. Group tours available. Le Cercle Molière’s production of En Conduisant Miss Daisy 1425 Regent Avenue West - Transcona 204.957.2500 / 1.800.265.3912 Le Cercle Molière (toll free in Canada and the U.S.) www.casinosofwinnipeg.com Le Cercle Molière, now in its 84th season, off ers theatre lovers a wide range of styles and themes in a unique setting - the intimate Gas Station Theatre Théâtre de la Chapelle. This theatre “en français” The Gas Station Theatre is a vibrant home is the longest running theatre company in that builds community through the creation North America in any language. An English and presentation of the arts. This 232-seat synopsis is provided for all plays. venue brings the best of theatre, music, The season is launched in September with dance, comedy and poetry to Winnipeg at the Fabulous Lobster Feast at the Winnipeg its intimate Osborne Village location. The Convention Centre. From October to May facility also boasts an art gallery featuring enjoy four major productions, public readings, works by local visual artists. theatre school, shows for children, the The Theatre is available to professional and Manitoba school tour and Teen Drama Festival. community arts groups on a rental basis. 825 rue Saint-Joseph – 445 River Avenue (corner of River Avenue Old St. Boniface / Winnipeg’s French Quarter and Osborne Street) – Osborne Village 204.233.8053 204.284.9477 [email protected] [email protected] www.cerclemoliere.com www.gasstationtheatre.com

12 The Golf Dome Little Opera Company NEW! The Golf Dome off ers something for The Little Opera Company presents an intimate everyone in the family. Hit balls on a three- alternative to grand opera with chamber tier driving range, play the challenging opera that is sung in English. Two operas 18 hole indoor mini golf course, try one are performed each season: in late October of three virtual golf simulators, play a few and early May. The fall opera is aimed toward games of pool or just relax and enjoy a snack mature audiences and the spring opera or beverage. The facility may be booked introduces young audiences to the art form. after hours to play your favorite fi eld sport The Salle Martial Caron Theatre within Collège on artifi cial turf. It is a great place to hold universitaire de Saint-Boniface, which is very a birthday party or a unique social event. close to the vibrant restaurants of Provencher Located on site, The Golf Store sells and Avenue is home to the company. services a full range of golf equipment. Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, 200 Open year–round except for Christmas Day. de la Cathédrale Avenue – Old St. Boniface / Summer hours are from 9:00 am to Winnipeg’s French Quarter 10:00 pm and winter hours are from 204.452.1017 8:00 am to 10:00 pm. [email protected] 1205 Wilkes Avenue (off Sterling Lyon www.littleopera.ca Parkway via Lorimer Boulevard) – Fort Garry 204.489.7776 Manitoba Chamber [email protected] Orchestra www.golfdome.ca The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra presents nine concerts this season in the acoustically superb Westminster United Church. MCO has IMAX® Theatre Winnipeg earned an international reputation with its The IMAX Theatre is Winnipeg’s premiere innovative and imaginative programming, downtown entertainment venue featuring recordings, broadcasts and tours. an exciting mix of 2D and 3D IMAX fi lms. 745 Westminster Avenue (northwest corner Experience the immersive and eye-popping of Maryland Street and Westminster Avenue) 3D technology at the only large-format – West End / Wolseley theatre in Manitoba. The 5½-story screen, 204.783.7377 crystal clear images and amazing digital [email protected] surround sound make you feel like you are part of the fi lm – it’s the ultimate way to www.manitobachamberorchestra.org see a movie. Private screenings and group bookings Manitoba Opera are also available. Acclaimed artists from around the world join Free underground parking. the fi nest Canadian singers, the Manitoba Third Floor – 393 Portage Avenue (Portage Opera Chorus, and the Winnipeg Symphony Place Shopping Centre) – Downtown Orchestra to present two lavish full-scale productions each season as well as other 204.956.4629 / 1.800.356.4629 opera events and outreach throughout the [email protected] year. Pre-show chats and surtitles displayed www.imaxwinnipeg.com above the stage during the show will keep you in-the-know. Carmen, opera’s favourite bad girl is back in town with performances on April 17, 20 and 23. One of the world’s favourite operas. Season runs from November through May. Tickets at Ticketmaster 204.253.ARTS (2787) or online at www.ticketmaster.ca. 555 Main Street (Centennial Concert Hall) – Exchange District [email protected] www.manitobaopera.mb.ca

Manitoba Opera – Madama Butterfl y 13 Manitoba Theatre Since opening in 2004, MTS Centre has Centre (MTC) welcomed over fi ve million visitors to more than 800 events, hosting such big-name acts as As Canada’s fl agship English-language Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Elton John, Celine regional theatre, each year the Manitoba Dion, Tom Petty, Jonas Brothers, Coldplay, Bon Theatre Centre presents six plays at the Johnn Jovi and Justin Timberlake. Sporting events Hirsch Theatre at the MTC Mainstage, four like NHL exhibition games, the 2007 World plays at the Tom Hendry Theatre at the MTC Women’s Hockey Championships, and the Warehouse, a Master Playwright Festival andd primary tenant – the Manitoba Moose– the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, North keep the energy high and the facility buzzing America’s second-largest Fringe Festival. throughout the winter months. From hockey Season runs October through May. games to concerts and everything in between, great nights always start at MTS Centre. 174 Market Avenue (John Hirsch Theatre at the MTC Mainstage) – Exchange Districtt Tickets at Ticketmaster 204.780.3333 or online at www.ticketmaster.ca 140 Rupert Avenue (Tom Hendry Theatre at the MTC Warehouse) – Exchange Districtct 300 Portage Avenue – Downtown 204.942.6537 or 1.877.446.4500 [email protected] www.mtc.mb.ca www.mtscentre.ca

McPhillips Pantages Station Casino Playhouse Theatre Relive the opulent splendor of the past The Pantages Playhouse Theatre, with its and saunter into one of the most unique particularly lavish interior, was the fi nest entertainment facilities in western Canada. theatre ever built in Winnipeg. Constructed in 1913-1914 and designed by architects Deep red velvets, rich woods, and twinkling George W. Northwood and B. Marcus Priteca, chandeliers take you back to a grand era of it originally presented live theatrical, musical, excitement and indulgence. The 178,000 and vaudeville performances. square foot, smoke-free facility off ers exceptional dining and lounges, popular livee A designated historical landmark, Pantages entertainment, a sports bar and fi rst-class continues to play host to local and gaming experience. international groups, both amateur and professional. Open year-round, Monday to Saturday from 10:00 am to 3:00 am and Sunday from noon 180 Market Avenue – Exchange District to 3:00 am. Closed on selected holidays. 204.989.2889 Group tours available. www.pantagesplayhouse.com 484 McPhillips Street – North End 204.957.2500 / 1.800.265.3912 Prairie Theatre (toll free in Canada and the U.S.) Exchange (PTE) www.casinosofwinnipeg.com PTE is Winnipeg’s second-largest live theatre and off ers an incredibly intimate experience MTS Centre with all seats less than 30 feet from the stage. The fi ve-play season features a range of Whether you’re travelling across the city to seee comedies and dramas. PTE is well known for a superstar in concert or across the continent its holiday family show which transforms the as part of the tour itself, no itinerary is completetee works of Robert Munsch to the stage. without a stop at MTS Centre. Conveniently located in the heart of downtown Winnipeg Season runs from October through April. and North America, this state-of-the-art 15,000-00- Third Floor, 393 Portage Avenue seat facility has consistently been ranked as onene (Portage Place Shopping Centre) – Downtown of the top 50 busiest venues in the world by Pollstar Magazine. 204.942.5483 www.pte.mb.ca

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14 Proud sponsor of Manitoba Homecoming 2010.

15 Rainbow Stage Speedworld’s notable racers have included (1993) Inc. Paul Walker (actor, The Fast and the Furious), and Dennis Quaid (actor, Vantage Point). At Rainbow Stage (1993) Inc. is a musical theatre Speedworld every day is race day with arrive- production company that has been bringing and-drive racing every day (no reservations professional, live musical Broadway shows required). State-of-the-art AMB timing system to Winnipeg stages for 55 years. Summer makes the racing even more intense! At performances take place at Rainbow Stage Speedworld it’s not like racing, it IS racing! in Kildonan Park, Canada’s longest running outdoor theatre. Open from noon to midnight 363 days a year! Rent – June 22 - July 16, 2010 575 Berry Street – St. James Joseph and the Amazing 204.774.KART (774.5278) Technicolor Dreamcoat [email protected] August 3 - 27, 2010 www.speedworld.ca 2021 Main Street – North End 204.989.0888 / 1.800.989.0888 Springhill [email protected] Winter Sports Park NEW! www.rainbowstage.net Located just a short drive from Winnipeg on Highway 59 North, Springhill Winter Sports Park is a great winter experience. With 7 Red River Co-op hectares of ski-able area, the Park includes 10 Speedway (formerly ski runs, a quad chairlift and a tow rope. The Victory Lane Speedway) Terrain Park off ers something for all levels and Red River Co-op Speedway is the fastest show abilities from beginner to extreme advanced. in town! Every Thursday night all summer, The Terrain Park features the following: catch bumper-to-bumper, wheel-to-wheel Jumps, Tabletops 20ft - 40 ft – 60 ft, Hips, 30 racing action on central Canada’s largest dirt ft down fl at down rail, 15 stair set and hand oval. In addition to regular weekly classes, rail, rainbow rail, A Frame rail, Battleship rail, C Red River Co-op Speedway is also visited by rail, 30 ft, 20 ft and 10 ft rails and boxes. There the high powered Sprint Cars and Late Models. is also a Half Pipe, Race Run and Mogul Run, and a Learning Fun Zone Slow Area. Certifi ed Season runs from the beginning of May instructors are also on hand. through the end of September. The Park includes a 3500 square foot Customer Highway #75 (fi ve minutes south of Service / Rental Shop and group use area and St. Norbert) – Just Outside (South) a separate area to be used as a media room 204.582.0527 and a meeting room for private functions and birthday parties. There is also a fully operational www.redrivercoopspeedway.ca kitchen and bar for customers to enjoy throughout their visit. Speedworld Hours of operation are Tuesday to Friday from * Indoor Kart Track 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm, Saturday and Sunday from Racing so real you may need a ride home! 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. School and group rates are Speedworld features real European style available weekdays during the daytime. The racing karts for the true racing enthusiast! season starts December 15th and runs until The 40 km/h “sprint karts” will thrill drivers of April 1. all ages (4’10” min. height) and the 50 km/h Highway 59 North –Just Outside (North) “race karts” will leave you breathless (18 yrs or 16 with a driver’s license). The ¼ km indoor 204.224.3051 track is ideal for both novice and experienced [email protected] drivers looking for an adrenalin fi x! Some of www.springhillwinterpark.com

Above: Rainbow Stage

16 Welcome home to the taste of Salisbury House.

The legendary Salisbury House Mr. Big Nip, loaded with fresh lettuce, tomato and processed cheddar, topped with our famous Sals Sauce and your choice of raw or grilled onions.

17 Theatre in the Cemetery West End * Enjoy a unique and entertaining theatrical Cultural Centre performance that takes you through the St. This funky all-ages concert venue plays host Boniface Cathedral’s cemetery, one of the to local, national and international concerts. oldest in the city. Hear stories from French, Friendly and eclectic, this licensed concert Métis and Manitoban history while visiting hall is one of the city’s most popular. A LEED gravesites of fascinating historic characters (Leadership in Energy and Environmental such as Louis Riel, founder of our province. Design) renovation and expansion saw the WECC reopen in May 2009 with expanded Season runs July and August from Wednesday capacity, improved artist and audience to Sunday. facilities, and a second, more intimate, room 190 avenue de la Cathédrale (St. Boniface for concert presentation and community Cathedral Cemetery) - Old St. Boniface / programming. To see a schedule of Winnipeg’s French Quarter upcoming events, visit the website. 1.866.808.8338 586 Ellice Avenue – West End 204.783.6918 Theatre Projects NEW! [email protected] Manitoba www.wecc.ca Theatre Projects Manitoba is celebrating 20 years of bringing audiences new and Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra innovative theatre from this province and The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, founded by beyond! TPM is the leading producer of Winnipeg’s premier jazz musicians and loved Manitoba plays, presenting a regular season by local jazz mavens, presents their 13th season of activities at a variety of intimate venues of great big band concerts at the Winnipeg Art throughout the city – call for info or visit the Gallery. The WJO showcases superb local artists website to fi nd out when and where they’ll be and features appearances by exciting national next! This spring they’re bringing to life North and international guest artists. Concerts cover End Gothic, Carolyn Gray’s hilarious and dark the range of jazz standards and old favourites caper set in and below the famous Winnipeg to new compositions. neighbourhood. Season runs from October through May. 204.989.2400 [email protected] 300 Memorial Boulevard (Winnipeg Art Gallery) – Downtown www.theatreprojectsmanitoba.ca 204.632.5299 [email protected] Virtuosi Concerts NEW! www.winnipegjazzorchestra.com Virtuosi Concerts is Winnipeg’s première chamber music and recital series, presenting 12 concerts per season in Eckhardt-Gramatté Winnipeg Jewish Theatre Hall at the University of Winnipeg. Now in The Winnipeg Jewish Theatre (WJT) proudly its 19th season, Virtuosi has established a celebrates its 22nd season with another great reputation for showcasing national and lineup! Come back for more great theatre international artists of the highest calibre. this season with Harold Pinter’s masterpiece 515 Portage Avenue – Downtown Betrayal (January 28 to February 7, 2010), starring Ron Lea (Willy Loman in last year’s 204.786.9000 critically acclaimed production of Death of a [email protected] Salesman), followed by the world premiere www.virtuosi.mb.ca of the comedy Some Things You Keep by local playwright Alix Sobler (April 29 to May 9, 2010). Season runs October through May. All plays at the easily accessible Berney Theatre – Asper Jewish Community Campus 123 Doncaster Street – Tuxedo 204.477.7478 [email protected] www.wjt.ca

18 Winnipeg Symphony Winnipeg’s Contemporary Orchestra (WSO) Dancers (WCD) The WSO performs to over 100,000 Founded in 1964, the company has fostered audience members each year and more the growth of many professional dance artists, than 80 concerts belonging to four major choreographers and teachers and has made series including: Masterworks (classical seminal contribution to the evolution of modern repertoire), Musically Speaking (multi-media dance in Canada. Each season WCD creates and take on live symphonic music), Pops (popular presents new work from within the Company music with orchestral arrangements), Sundays and also introduces Winnipeg audiences to with the Family (concerts for kids 12 and some of the best choreography and dance from under) and a variety of feature performances the rest of Canada. throughout the season. The performance venue has been recently The 2009-2010 season features spectacular renovated with a new deluxe seating system and shows, including The Music of Queen with renamed for the company’s founder as The Rachel Jeans ‘n Classics, February 26-28; Classical Browne Theatre. The 2010 season includes works Mystery Tour – Music of The Beatles, May 7-9. from Peter Bingham, Marc Boivin, WCD Artistic Classical performances include One Thousand Director Brent Lott and a selection of repertoire and One Arabian Nights, March 6. works from the company’s 46 year history. Tickets available at the WSO box offi ce The Rachel Browne Theatre, at 204.949.3999 or Ticketmaster at 2nd Floor, 211 Bannatyne Avenue 204.780.3333 or online at ticketmaster.ca (Crocus Building) – Exchange District 1020-555 Main Street (Centennial 204.452.0229 Concert Hall) – Exchange District [email protected] [email protected] www.winnipegscontemporarydancers.ca www.wso.ca

Left: Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra Above: Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers

19 * Fun Mountain * Grand Prix Amusements Water Slide Park Rev up the excitement with go-kart racing on Fun Mountain is the place for a fun family three challenging tracks with over 75 go-karts getaway or to just simply splash the hours for ages four to adult. Come play the 18-hole away. Enjoy water slides, tropical theme pirate theme mini golf and visit Skull Mountain, mini golf, and bumper boat rentals. Food Treasure Island and the life sized pirate ship. concession, locker rentals, gift shop and Cool off on a bumper boat or launch water free parking are also available. balloons at each other in the water wars game. Step up to the plate in one of fi ve batting cages, Open daily from mid June to late August bump on a super collider bumper car, or have a (weather permitting). Call for hours. bouncing good time on one of the trampolines. 804 Murdock Road (off Hwy #1 East), Also on site are concessions, arcade, and picnic 6 kms east of the Royal Canadian Mint – areas. Group and party rates are available. Just Outside (East) Free general admission, free parking, Pay 204.255.3910 as You Play Activities. www.funmountain.ca Open daily including holidays: mid April through mid October (weather permitting). Call for hours.

Above: Manitoba Theatre for Young People Highway #1 East (Fermor Avenue), Below: Thunder Rapids Fun Park 4 kms east of the Royal Canadian Mint – Right: Grand Prix Amusements Just Outside (East) 204.254.3644 www.grandprixamusements.com

20 Manitoba forget the gorgeous 18-hole mini golf course Children’s Museum complete with a waterfall and island green! Celebrating over 20 years as a safe place Hours of operation are Monday to Saturday for families to play together, the Manitoba in summer from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm, spring Children’s Museum is home to six hands- and fall from 10:00 am to dusk. Open at noon on galleries. Kids can be anything their on Sundays. imaginations create, from TV anchors to 5058 Portage Avenue (4 kms west of engineers aboard the museum’s locomotive Assiniboia Downs) – Just Outside (West) and passenger train car. From November to January, visit the original Eaton’s Santa Village 204.885.7223 display. Be sure to stop by the toy store, Shop! [email protected] Open daily. www.thunderrapids.ca 45 Forks Market Road – The Forks Tinkertown 204.924.4000 Family Fun Park * [email protected] An outdoor amusement park with over 20 www.childrensmuseum.com rides and attractions, featuring a ½ mile scenic train ride, carousel, ferris wheel, bumper cars, Manitoba Theatre two roller coasters and a wide variety of kiddie for Young People rides. Enjoy the 18-hole mini golf, food and ice cream concessions, mini donuts, gift shop, Come celebrate MTYP’s 10th birthday at The arcade, free parking and free gate admission. Forks! This season will be a truly ‘high defi nition’ theatre experience as MTYP plays host to Open mid May until mid September (weather guest companies from Las Vegas, Montreal, permitting). Miami and beyond, as well as creating their “Come to the town where the train goes around.” own productions right here at home. As a leader in theatre for young audiences, MTYP Highway #1 East at Murdock Road – has been creating and presenting professional, Just Outside (East) innovative theatre since 1982, both in Canada 204.257.8095 and internationally. All performances are www.tinkertown.mb.ca presented in MTYP’s reconfi gurable 315-seat theatre at The Forks, which also houses a year- round theatre school for young people. U-Puttz Black * Season runs from October to April. Light Miniature Golf Canwest Performing Arts Centre, U-Puttz Black Light Miniature Golf is the 2 Forks Market Road - The Forks newest and most exciting addition to family entertainment to hit Winnipeg! This uniquely 204.942.8898 / 1.877.871.6897 themed, artistically created 18-hole miniature (toll-free in Manitoba) golf course features realistic props and murals [email protected] that will take you deep into the sea and back www.mtyp.ca in time! U-Puttz is the new hot spot for birthday parties, Thunder Rapids Fun Park * windups, special outings, corporate events and just to come and puttz around! Come and enjoy the scenic park with fun-fi lled rides and activities for all age groups. Thunder 423 McPhillips Street – North End Rapids has fi ve diff erent types of go-karts, 204.582.2166 from kiddie karts to thunder karts, water [email protected] squirting bumper boats, batting cages, video games, concession stand, a huge free jungle www.u-puttz.ca gym, picnic areas, barbeque rentals, and don’t

21 FESTIVALS AND EVENTS

Winnipeg is renowned for its year-round slate of festivals and its reputation for hosting some of Canada’s biggest and best events! This year we’ll bring you even more reasons to celebrate as Manitoba Homecoming 2010 adds its own signature events to an already packed calendar.

Above: Teddy Bears’ Picnic Manito Ahbee Right: Arctic Glacier Winter Park

22 Saison Voyageur The trail is accessible, weather permitting, from the following access points: Norwood dock, Until February 28, 2010 Taché dock, Fort Gibraltar, Exchange dock, Kicking off with the Winter Solstice and the Hugo dock, Osborne dock, Legislative Building opening of the Arctic Glacier Winter Park, dock, Maryland Bridge North dock, at the end the Saison Voyageur will span over 10 weeks, of Arlington Street, Aubrey Street, Dominion wrapping up with 10 days of celebrations Street and Omand’s Creek Park. at the Festival du Voyageur. Combining a Check out the website for the latest updates variety of indoor and outdoor activities for the on ice conditions. whole family, it’s the perfect opportunity to discover what a vibrant province Manitoba is, 204.237.7692 or Info hotline: off ering dynamic programming even in the 204.233.ALLÔ (2556) winter! Like the voyageurs, Manitobans brave [email protected] obstacles, embrace new frontiers and never www.rivertrail.ca lose their Joie de Vivre. Regardless of cultural www.sentierdhiver.ca (French) background, the climate of this land unites us in many ways. The Saison Voyageur helps us embrace winter and all its activities that are The BDO Classic now synonymous with our city and province. Canadian Open Look out for the Saison Voyageur brand or January 20 to 24, 2010 visit the website for a detailed list of activities. The Legends of Rock are back! The Capital One Action, adventure, discovery and Grand Slam of Curling presents the BDO Classic rendez-vous awaits… Canadian Open at the MTS Centre featuring an 204.237.7692 elite 18 team fi eld which includes a star-studded array of World and Olympic curling champions. www.saisonvoyageur.ca Glenn Howard will be back to defend the event title against the likes of Kevin Martin, Jeff Assiniboine Credit Union Stoughton, Kerry Burtnyk and Olympic Gold River Trail medalist Brad Gushue. As many as fi ve Olympic representatives including Canada, the United January 15 – February 28, 2010 States and several European teams will go head- Slip on your mittens, put on your skates and to-head one last time before heading to the join in the fun on the Longest Naturally Frozen Winter Olympics in Vancouver in February. Skating Trail in the world! With an approximate MTS Centre, 300 Portage Avenue length of 9.34 kilometers, The Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail is the perfect location Tickets for this pre-Olympic event to take part in a variety of activities such as are available through Ticketmaster hiking, hockey, sledding, snow shoeing and at 204.780.3333 curling. The River Trail features two separate www.ticketmaster.ca trails for walking and skating from which you can admire Winnipeg as you’ve never seen it before. Many heated shelters are located along the trail to make your experience more enjoyable. Don’t miss the special programming every weekend fi lled with free activities for the whole family!

23 MTC Master Playwright Le Festival du Voyageur Festival – ChurchillFest 2010 February 12 to 21, 2010 January 20 to February 7, 2010 Join in western Canada’s largest winter festival! By off ering a festival dedicated to the works The Festival du Voyageur is the perfect venue of master playwrights, the Manitoba Theatre to embrace the Manitoban winter while Centre provides artists and audiences with enjoying unique entertainment. The whole the opportunity to immerse themselves in family will take pleasure in meeting Fort the works of important, but rarely produced, Gibraltar’s historical characters, admiring snow playwrights. Past festivals have honoured sculptures created by artists from around the Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Harold Pinter, world, dancing and jigging to lively music, Edward Albee, Michel Tremblay, Eugene O’Neill, tasting delicious French-Canadian food and Tom Stoppard, David Mamet and Arthur Miller. so much more. Bonding the traditions of the This year, MTC and a host of independent past with the vitality of the franco-manitoban companies will celebrate the life and work community of today, Festival du Voyageur is a of British playwright Caryl Churchill, the fi rst kitchen party not to be missed! female playwright to be recognized by the 204.237.7692 or Event info midwinter festival. hot-line: 204.233.ALLÔ (2556) 204.956.1340 / Box Offi ce: 204.942.6537 [email protected] www.masterplaywrightfest.com www.festivalvoyageur.mb.ca

2010 Winnipeg Symphony Freeze Frame, International Orchestra New Music Festival Film Festival for February 6 to 12, 2010 Kids of All Ages March 4 to 13, 2010 Earth – Sponsored by: Imris The Freeze Frame International Film Festival Join the WSO as they take on a new journey for Kids of All Ages returns for its fourteenth with this season’s New Music Festival: Earth. For year! This unique festival presents exciting seven nights they will celebrate the beauty of workshops, fi lms from all over the world, our planet with music from all over the world. and free drop-in activities for the whole family. From the distant lands of the Arctic to the Workshops and some screenings require urban sounds of our city, they bring you music advance bookings. All programs off ered in that refl ects our connection with nature. This both French and English. year they are proud to feature new works by composers Vincent Ho, Derek Charke, John 204.949.9355 / 1.866.KID.FEST (543.3378) Tavener, and this year’s distinguished guest [email protected] composer, Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Stucky. www.freezeframeonline.org Tickets available at the WSO box offi ce at 204.949.3999 or at Ticketmaster at 204.780.3333 [email protected] www.newmusicfestival.ca or www.ticketmaster.ca

24 Winnipeg Comedy Festival Teddy Bears’ Picnic April 7 to 11, 2010 May 30, 2010 Canada’s funniest comics converge on Winnipeg The 23rd Annual Teddy Bears’ Picnic in support for fi ve nights of hilarious stand-up, sketch, of the Children’s Hospital Foundation of and improvisational comedy. This nationally Manitoba is always a fantastic day! Thousands televised festival “delivers the laughs” at venues of kids, adults and stuff ed animals will make ranging from large theatres to small clubs. In their way to Assiniboine Park to spend a great eight years, this funny-fest has become the day outdoors. With over 50 tents to choose second largest comedy festival in Canada. from, there is no shortage of fun activities, important health and safety information and 204.284.9477 wonderful entertainment on the Main Stage. [email protected] 204.787.4000 www.winnipegcomedyfestival.com [email protected] Red River Valley Swap www.goodbear.mb.ca Meet & Old Car Festival May 9, 2010 Winnipeg Pride Festival 2010 This event features vintage automobiles and Pride Sunday, June 6, 2010 classics pre – 1976 as well as Manitoba’s largest Winnipeg’s LGBTT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, Swap Meet featuring long lost treasures and transgender and two-spirit) communities and missing pieces that all car buff s long to fi nd. their supporters come together in a 10-day Located at Red River Exhibition Park, 3977 festival celebrating Pride and diversity in Portage Avenue – just west of the Perimeter Winnipeg. Highway. The Winnipeg Pride Festival begins with a 204.222.2298 / 204.989.3456 ceremonial rainbow fl ag raising at City Hall and [email protected] continues with baseball and golf tournaments, womyn’s boat cruise, cocktail parties, coff ee www.redriverex.com house and more. Over 5,000 people are expected to come Doors Open Winnipeg out on Sunday, June 6 for the main Pride Celebrating Stories our Buildings Tell! Celebrations which include a Rally at the Legislature, and the colourful March and May 29 & 30, 2010 Parade through Downtown. Join Heritage Winnipeg for the seventh NEW: The FREE Outdoor music festival annual Doors Open Winnipeg. Explore some and business fair are moving to The Forks! of Winnipeg’s most fascinating buildings, The festival will be bigger and better than and enjoy several walking tours during this ever before. free weekend event. If you love history, and appreciate unique architecture, come discover Visit the website or join the Facebook group the tales held within some of Winnipeg’s and stay on top of all the latest news. most impressive walls. Volunteers will be on www.pridewinnipeg.com hand at each building for tours and to answer questions. Watch for all the details in the Winnipeg Free Press insert on Thursday, Mike Weir Miracle Golf May 27th, 2010. Drive For Kids For further information contact June 7, 2010 Heritage Winnipeg at 204.942.2663 [email protected] Top-ranked Canadian golfer, Mike Weir, will be in Winnipeg to tee off the Mike Weir Miracle For a map and description of all buildings and Golf Drive for Kids in support of the Children’s events visit www.doorsopenwinnipeg.ca Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc. The event will include a golf tournament, a sponsor reception, a junior pro-am event, and a Gala Dinner. 204.787.4000

Left: Le Festival du Voyageur www.goodbear.mb.ca

25 Winnipeg International The evening will be fi lled with great Children’s Festival entertainment and memorable moments for the (KIDSFEST) whole family. The entire broadcast will close with an amazing display of fi reworks from The Forks! June 10 to 13, 2010 204.947.9331 ext.358 Four days of fun for children of all ages! Singers, [email protected] dancers, storytellers and entertainers from all over the world bring joy, laughter and activities www.aboriginaldaylive.ca to The Forks for the 28th annual Kidsfest. Never www.aptn.ca a dull moment! 204.958.4730 (General Information) National Aboriginal Day 204.958.4733 (Box Offi ce) [email protected] June 21, 2010 www.kidsfest.ca Join thousands of Canadians from across the country to celebrate National Aboriginal Day and the unique heritage, cultures and Red River Exhibition contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in Canada. June 18 to 27, 2010 Aboriginal Languages of Manitoba Inc. Join close to a quarter-million Manitobans 204.989.6392 in the sight, sounds, tastes and thrills of the EX and celebrate Manitoba. The EX is the www.ablang.com offi cial kick-off to summer in Winnipeg. North America’s #1 midway, agriculture exhibits, family and children’s entertainment Jazz Winnipeg Festival and a myriad of free shows makes this June 25 to July 4, 2010 Winnipeg’s largest summer event. The world’s best jazz, blues and urban Located at Red River Exhibition Park, artists converge on downtown Winnipeg 3977 Portage Avenue – just west for the 21st annual Jazz Winnipeg Festival. of the Perimeter Highway. Featuring outstanding local, national 204.888.6990 / 204.989.3456 and international performers, the festival [email protected] culminates in three spectacular days of free music in Old Market Square. www.redriverex.com 204.989.4656 [email protected] Aboriginal Day Live 2010 www.jazzwinnipeg.com June 20, 2010 Come and join the Aboriginal Peoples Television Canada Day Celebrations Network (APTN) for the largest outdoor celebration of National Aboriginal Day in the July 1, 2010 country. The fourth annual Aboriginal Day Live Come celebrate Canada’s birthday at one is held in honour of the day and showcases of the many parties held around the city, Canada’s Aboriginal talent in an evening of including The Forks, Osborne Village, Old music, entertainment, comedy and traditional Market Square in the Exchange District and dance. The three and a half hour commercial-free the Canad Inns Canada Day Picnic in the Park performance will again be broadcast from The at Assiniboine Park. Each location adds its Forks. There will be an extraordinary lineup of special touch to the celebrations, refl ecting talented Aboriginal artists performing live, from the unique personality of that area. Great country to rock and blues to hip-hop. music, food, shopping, free entertainment and fun make these parties the place to be.

Below: Winnipeg International Children’s Festival

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27 Winnipeg Folk Festival 2010 CN Canadian July 7 to 11, 2010 Women’s Open Hear some of the best, most diverse music August 23 to 29, 2010 from across North America and around the CN and the Royal Canadian Golf Association are world at the 37th annual Winnipeg Folk proud to present the CN Canadian Women’s Festival. This internationally acclaimed event Open at St. Charles Country Club in Winnipeg. features over 70 acts, seven daytime stages, The list of past champions for Canada’s only two evening stages, a Family Area, Craft LPGA Tour event reads as a “who’s who” of Village, camping, and food concessions, golfi ng greats. Annika Sorenstam, Lorena all in a beautiful prairie park setting. Ochoa, Cristie Kerr, Juli Inkster, Karrie Webb and Located at Birds Hill Provincial Park, many others, have all won north of the border. northeast on Highway #59. In 2009, Suzann Pettersen outlasted the 204.231.0096 LPGA Tour’s top 50 players, including fan [email protected] favourites Natalie Gulbis, Michelle Wie and Morgan Pressel to claim Canada’s national www.winnipegfolkfestival.ca open golf championship. Tickets for the 2010 CN Canadian Winnipeg Fringe Women’s Open can be purchased online at Theatre Festival www.cncanadianwomensopen.com or by calling 1-866-571-LPGA. July 14 to 25, 2010 North America’s second-largest Fringe Festival showcases more than 140 local, national and Thin Air, Winnipeg international theatre companies, off ering over International Writers Festival 1,000 performances of comedy, drama, improv and dance. Festival-goers of all ages are invited September 19 to 26, 2010 to enjoy live family entertainment at Old THIN AIR is a literary celebration, an annual Market Square in Winnipeg’s historic Exchange week-long festival of readings, panel discussions, District, where buskers, street performers and school shows, book signings, and professional bands perform from noon to midnight daily on development opportunities. It engages new and the Outdoor Stage. established writers, and is enjoyed by thousands 204.9.4.FRINGE (204.943.7464) / of Manitobans of all ages and backgrounds in 1.877.446.4500 both English and French. Throughout each day, [email protected] exciting events are scheduled at various venues across the city, including some in rural areas. The www.winnipegfringe.com festival off ers a taste of literature sure to satisfy any reader’s palate! Folklorama 204.927.7323 [email protected] August 1 to 14, 2010 www.thinairwinnipeg.ca Experience the energy of the largest and longest-running multicultural event of its kind in the world. From traditional home-cooked Sarasvati Productions’ NEW! meals to electrifying nightly performances by Femfest 2010 local, national and international entertainers, Folklorama creates a feast for the senses as you Heading into its eighth season in 2010, experience 40-plus cultural pavilions. Delight FemFest is a celebration of plays by women in 14 summer nights in one extremely diverse for everyone! Touring productions from across and impressive city. Canada as well as local, workshops, readings of new scripts in development and presented 204.982.6210 / 1.800.665.0234 pieces will be included in FemFest 2010! [email protected] 204.586.2236 www.folklorama.ca [email protected] www.sarasvati.ca

28 Manito Ahbee Festival Winnipeg Aboriginal November 3 to 7, 2010 Film Festival (WAFF) The Manito Ahbee Festival For All Nations November 17 to 21, 2010 showcases the best of Aboriginal arts, culture Every November, the Winnipeg Aboriginal and heritage with its 5 day event that attracts Film Festival (WAFF) showcases the best in thousands of people from across Canada, the indigenous fi lm and video from across Canada, USA and abroad. This year’s event, the fi fth the U.S. and the world. Held over 5 days, annual Festival for All Nations, will present WAFF’s wide array of fi lms are complemented exciting events such as an International by nightly events such as post-screening Competition Pow-wow, Education conference, receptions and informal mixers between artists Indigenous Marketplace & Tradeshow, Metis and audiences. Soiree, and the Aboriginal People’s Choice Music 204.774.1375 Awards. Thousands attended last year, and we info@aboriginalfi lmfest.org want you to be one of them this year. Come and celebrate Aboriginal Culture at its fi nest. www.aboriginalfi lmfest.org 204.956.1849 www.manitoahbee.com Canad Inns Winter Wonderland November 26, 2010 to January 2, 2011 Power Smart / JCI Winnipeg Enjoy Manitoba’s largest winter drive-through Santa Claus Parade light show in the warmth and comfort of your vehicle. The 11th annual massive Winter November 13, 2010 Wonderland Light Show features over 20 The Power Smart / JCI Winnipeg Santa Claus animated theme areas with over 150,000 lights Parade combines the magic, wonder and and displays as large as 125 feet wide and 40 excitement that herald the holiday season and feet high. Open daily 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm, wraps it up in one unique event. A moving except Christmas Day. panorama of lights, colour and music, it Located at Red River Exhibition Park, inspires delight in the eyes of the children and 3977 Portage Avenue – just west of those who are children at heart. The Parade the Perimeter Highway. honours old family traditions and establishes new ones, evokes familiar memories and 204.888.6990 / 204.989.3456 creates new favourites. Share in the spirit of this [email protected] magical event with family and friends. www.redriverex.com For more information, call Santa’s Workshop Don’t forget to check out the special at 204.77SANTA (777.2682) [email protected] Manitoba Homecoming 2010 section of the Guide for even more great events! www.winnipegsantaparade.com

Left: Winnipeg Folk Festival Above: CN Canadian Women’s Open

29 From Winnipeg Gallery Lacosse Located in the Corydon area, Gallery Lacosse to the world – celebrates Manitoba art and its unique place in the Canadian creative landscape. Owner and artist Terry Lacosse takes pride in the city’s galleries supporting local talent. These artists are showcased through their paintings, pottery, showcase photos, and jewellery including Terry’s paintings of the neighbourhood and the the talents of beaches of Lake Winnipeg. The Gallery off ers expert assistance to both local, national private and corporate clients in art sales and placement, personalized gifts, and custom and international framing. To capture your experience of the prairies through exquisite art forms, visit artists. Gallery Lacosse. Hours are Tuesday to Friday from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm and Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. 169 Lilac Street – Corydon Avenue 204.284.0726 www.tlacosse.com

Above: Urban Shaman Gallery Below: Gallery Lacosse Right: Platform: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts

30 Graffi ti Gallery * Mayberry Fine Art Graffi ti Gallery is part of Graffi ti Art Mayberry Fine Art is centrally located in a Programming Inc., a not for profi t community restored heritage building at the heart of youth art organization located in the core area Winnipeg’s historic Exchange District. Works by of Winnipeg. It uses art as a tool for community leading Canadian artists, such as Joe Fafard and development, social change, and individual Wanda Koop are displayed in over 6,000 square growth. The Gallery hosts community urban art feet of gallery space. With more than 35 years of exhibits by local, Canadian and international experience, Mayberry Fine Art also specializes in artists. The satellite gallery located at The Skate important historic Canadian art of the 19th and Plaza at The Forks features an additional six 20th Century. Regular exhibitions at the main panels without the restriction of operating gallery, as well as at Mayberry Fine Art’s satellite hours. The st.Art Program off ers free after- gallery in Winnipeg Square, feature rare and school and summer programming for children important early and contemporary Canadian art. and youth. The Urban Canvas Program is a 48- Hours are Tuesday through Thursday week life skills training initiative for emerging from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, Friday and Saturday artists. Every visit to Graffi ti Gallery is unique; from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. the walls are an evolving urban canvas. 212 McDermot Avenue – Exchange District 109 Higgins Ave (East of Main Street) – Exchange District Winnipeg Square - near the Fort Street entrance (open during regular 204.667.9960 mall hours) – Downtown www.graffi tigallery.ca 204.255.5690 info@mayberryfi neart.com Ken Segal Gallery www.mayberryfi neart.com The Ken Segal Gallery’s mission is to show and sell art and put on museum-quality exhibitions featuring locally established to PLATFORM: Centre for nationally recognized contemporary artists. Photographic and Digital Arts Works include paintings, works on paper, PLATFORM is Manitoba’s only artist-run centre sculptures, photography, and more. Besides devoted exclusively to photographic and digital exhibiting, selling, and representing leading arts. Founded in 1981, the gallery exhibits and emerging Canadian contemporary artists artwork by local, national and international from diff erent cultural backgrounds, the Gallery artists, showcasing the scope of photographic also brings new and exciting international art and digital art practices from innovations to Winnipeg. The Ken Segal Gallery furthers and re-discoveries arising from the traditional the careers of the artists by hosting around 10 print, to advances stemming from digital exhibitions annually to promote and market photographic techniques, to the outer limits their work. The Gallery’s goal is to exhibit and where photography dissolves into other media develop contemporary art of an international classifi cations. standard, building the gallery to show quality 121-100 Arthur Street (Artspace Building) – and distinctive works from an astonishing array of Exchange District local and international talents. 204.942.8183 Open Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 am to [email protected] 6:00 pm and Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm or by appointment. www.platformgallery.org 531 Osborne Street – Osborne Village 204.477.4527 [email protected] www.kensegalgallery.com

31 Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, FASTWÜRMS installation

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is Manitoba’s premier contemporary art gallery and the fi rst Institute of Contemporary Art in Canada. Since 1972, Plug In has exhibited the Winnipeg Art very best local and international art work in all Gallery (WAG) media. Renowned globally for its prize-winning With an exterior of Manitoba Tyndall stone, representation of Canada at the Canada’s oldest public gallery is home 49th Venice Biennale (2001), Plug In is also to the world’s largest public collection of an important publisher of art editions. contemporary Inuit art, some of which is 286 McDermot Avenue – Exchange District always on display. The Winnipeg Art Gallery boasts a constantly changing exhibition 204.942.1043 schedule of national and international art, as [email protected] well as emphasizing the work of Manitoba www.plugin.org artists. The gift shop carries unique jewelry, ceramics, and glassware handcrafted by Canadian artists. The bright and airy Storm Urban Shaman restaurant overlooks the rooftop sculpture Contemporary garden and tables are set outside in the Aboriginal Art * summer months. The WAG is located within walking distance of all downtown hotels. Urban Shaman Gallery features cutting- Open year-round. edge Aboriginal art in an ever-changing contemporary setting, while promoting the 300 Memorial Boulevard - Downtown rich artistic legacy of Aboriginal communities. 204.786.6641 The Aboriginal artist run gallery is dedicated to [email protected] providing a vehicle for artistic expressions by taking a leadership role in the cultivation www.wag.mb.ca of indigenous art. 203-290 McDermot Avenue – Woodlands Gallery * Exchange District Located on Academy Road among an eclectic 204.942.2674 array of upscale boutiques and restaurants, [email protected] Woodlands Gallery shows an engaging www.urbanshaman.org selection of traditional and contemporary Canadian Art. In addition to original artwork by professional Manitoba and Canadian artists, the Wah-sa Gallery gallery off ers unique gift items and professional custom framing. Artists represented include: The Wah-sa Gallery is devoted exclusively to Rick Bond, Connie Geerts, Angela Morgan, Canadian Aboriginal art and crafts. The Gallery Hugh G. Rice, Robert Roy, Carl Schlademan, exhibits a wide range of originals, limited Alex Suprowich and many more. Please edition prints and art cards. The gallery also contact the gallery for current exhibitions & handles craft, pottery, carvings and giftware. events. Johnston Terminal – The Forks Open Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:30 204.942.5121 pm and Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. [email protected] 535 Academy Road - River Heights www.wahsa.mb.ca 204.947.0700 www.woodlandsgallery.com

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33 Airforce Heritage Bishop Velychkovsky Museum & Air Park Martyr’s Shrine Enjoy the largest air park in Canada which This is Canada’s second martyr’s shrine. The includes aircraft presented dramatically in beautiful chapel contains the relics (mortal action poses. It is located outside the Air remains) of the Ukrainian Catholic martyr, Force Way gate at 17 Wing, with unrestricted Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky. Beatifi ed by Pope access at all times. The free Air Force Heritage John Paul II, Blessed Vasyl – a Ukranian Catholic Museum, situated on the ground fl oor of 1 - suff ered severe torture during the Soviet Canadian Air Division headquarters contains regime and died in Winnipeg in 1973. many outstanding exhibits of national A museum depicting the martyr’s life story is signifi cance, and is open by appointment only; open Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 please call. pm and Saturday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. North of Sharp Boulevard (Air Force Way) 250 Jeff erson Avenue (St. Joseph’s off Ness Avenue – St. James / Airport Ukrainian Catholic Church) – North End 204.833.2500 ext 4180 204.338.7321 [email protected] www.bvmartyrshrine.com Above: Mennonite Heritage Village Below: Costume Museum of Canada Right: The Firefi ghter’s Museum of Winnipeg

34 Costume Museum Fire Fighters of Canada Museum of Winnipeg * The Costume Museum, now in its new Among the oldest fi re stations in Canada, downtown Winnipeg site, has a new look, this beautifully maintained fi re hall - built but a long history of museum excellence. It is in 1903 - features stained glass windows home to over 35,000 artifacts spanning 400 and ornate tin ceilings. As a tribute to years of Canadian history through fashion. The the heroism of fi re fi ghters, the museum exhibitions approach clothing with an eye displays hand and horse drawn, steam and to history to tell the stories of the evolution early motorized fi re apparatus, artifacts, of clothing and personal adornment. The photographs and records dating back to Museum also houses an extensive pattern and the 1880s. reference library to meet the diverse needs of Open Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 am researchers and designers alike. to 3:00 pm. Other times by appointment. The unique shop off ers fashion accessories, 56 Maple Street – Exchange District handbags and Manitoba products for the discerning buyer. Guided tours and audio 204.942.4817 tours on mp3 players are also off ered. The fi [email protected] Museum invites you to join them for a trip www.winnipegfi remuseum.ca down memory lane and a nostalgic look at contemporary issues in today’s competitive fashion industry. Fort la Reine Museum, 109 Pacifi c Avenue – Exchange District Pioneer Village 204.989.0072 & Tourist Bureau [email protected] The Fort, built in 1738 by French Explorer www.costumemuseum.com Pierre Gaultier de la Verendrye, depicts the life of prairie Pioneers in Manitoba. Visit the pioneer village, the Ukrainian Catholic Dalnavert Museum * Church and the 1881 school where Mary Louise Pickering taught. See the actual 1882 Marvel at the luxurious furnishings and lovely railcar used by William Van Horne when stained glass windows that make this 1895 building the CPR and explore several turn- Queen Anne Revival style house a beautiful of-the-last-century homes, including the and fascinating place to visit. The former home home of former Premier Douglas Campbell. of Sir Hugh John Macdonald (a Premier of Here you will also fi nd the Manitoba Softball Manitoba), Dalnavert has been designated a Hall of Fame and Museum, a military National Historic Site. One-hour guided tours museum and the world’s largest indoor are conducted throughout the day. Group displays of Allis-Chalmers farm equipment. tours for parties of eight or more are available by appointment. The Museum is open annually mid May to mid September from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm The Museum features changing exhibits in (Sundays from noon). The Portage Tourist the contemporary Visitors’ Centre (a “green” Bureau is open year-round with reduced building opened in 2005), licensed rental hours (9:00 am – 4:00 pm) during the off facilities for up to 75 guests, free parking season. in the attached lot, and a charming gift shop brimming with books, toys, china, and Group tours arranged by appointment only. handcrafted items by Manitoba artists. Located just 4 kms east of city centre on Open 11:00 am to 4:00 pm Wednesday Highway #1A at junction of Highway #26 through Friday, 11:00 am to 6:00 pm on in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Saturday and noon to 4:00 pm on Sunday. 204.857.3259 From July 1 - Labour Day, weekday hours are 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. www.fortlareinemuseum.ca www.portagetouristbureau.ca 61 Carlton Street (Just south of Broadway) - Downtown 204.943.2835 [email protected] www.mhs.mb.ca

35 Grant’s Old Mill * Louis Riel’s Tomb See a working replica of Cuthbert Grant’s Visit the resting place of Louis Riel, Métis leader original water-powered mill, built in 1829. and founder of the province of Manitoba. During the summer months wheat is ground 190 avenue de la Cathédrale into fl our. The Mill celebrates Grant and the (St. Boniface Cathedral Cemetery) – Metis culture the second Saturday in July with Old St. Boniface / Winnipeg’s French Quarter a BBQ and activities. A pioneer picnic is held on the third Saturday in August. 2777 Portage Avenue – St. James Lower Fort Garry National * 204.986.5613 (summer) / Historic Site of Canada 204.253.4904 (winter) History will unfold before your eyes at this restored 19th century fort where costumed staff recreate the 1850s in the Red River Valley. Historical Museum of Come and meet the Governor of the Hudson’s St. James-Assiniboia * Bay Company as he strolls through his garden, barter with the company clerk, sit in a tipi and Come visit these permanent exhibits that listen to the whispers of ancient legends. Touch capture the history and spirit of historic St. the coarse fur of a bison hide at the oldest James-Assiniboia. William Brown House, stone fur trading post in North America, or if located on the museum grounds, is a Red River you prefer, scour the Fort for clues in a family frame structure built in the late 1850s. There is scavenger hunt and explore the new interactive also a Municipal Hall Building from 1911 and exhibit in the Visitor Reception Centre. There is a third building that houses blacksmithing, something here for the whole family. farming, and transportation displays. Living-history programs run May 15 to 3180 Portage Avenue – St. James Labour Day from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm daily. 204.888.8706 Daily guided tours in English and French and motorized access for mobility challenged visitors available. Scheduled tours are off ered Ivan Franko Museum in September and October. The site is open to groups year-round for tours, weddings or View works by Ukrainian author and poet Ivan meetings by pre-registration. Franko. By appointment only. Main Street / Highway #9 (15 minutes 200 McGregor Street – North End north of Winnipeg) - Just Outside (North) 204.589.4397 1.888.773.8888 www.pc.gc.ca/garry Living Prairie Museum * The Museum is a 13 hectare endangered tall Maison Gabrielle-Roy * grass prairie preserve located inside the city. Set aside in 1968 as a remnant of original tall Discover the ancestral house that inspired grass prairie, this preserve is home to over Gabrielle Roy, one of Canada’s most infl uential 160 species of prairie wildfl owers, grasses and authors of the 20th century. This magnifi cent shrubs with a great array of wildlife. Explore home with white columns, the perfect setting this endangered ecosystem with “Naturalist for some of her most loved stories, was Knapsacks” which are full of fun equipment and Gabrielle Roy’s birthplace. A recipient of many free to borrow while on site. prestigious awards, Roy is best remembered for her novels Street of Riches and The Tin Flute. Her Plan your visit during Crocus Days (April), Prairie works have been translated into more than 14 Plant Sale Days (May and June), Monarch languages. Butterfl y Festival (July), Spirit of the Prairie (September) and Winter Snowshoe Programs. 375 rue Deschambault – Old St. Boniface / Winnipeg’s French Quarter 2795 Ness Avenue – St. James 204.231.3853 204.832.0167 [email protected] [email protected] www.maisongabrielleroy.mb.ca www.livingprairie.ca

36 Manitoba Crafts Winner of the Michelin Green Guide’s top award Museum & Library – designated “Worth the Trip”, the Museum features an ever changing variety of touring and The Museum interprets the rich historical and specialty exhibits. contemporary handicrafts of Manitoba. In addition, the Library holds history, theory and 190 Rupert Avenue – The Exchange District instruction books on many craft techniques. 204.956.2830 / 204.943.3139 Please call for information on current exhibits (recorded information) and for seasonal hours. www.manitobamuseum.ca 1B-183 Kennedy (second door on the side) - Downtown On Site at the Museum 204.487.6117 Museum Galleries [email protected] The Manitoba Museum is noted for the dramatic www.mts.net/~mcml walk-through settings among its nine spectacular permanent galleries. From the Nonsuch, a Manitoba Electrical replica of a full-size 17th century ship that sailed Museum & Education the world, to the Urban Gallery, a trip back Centre through time to the roaring 20s, to the dramatic Orientation Gallery with its recreation of an early From a time of oil lamps and electric streetcars bison hunt, a trip to the Museum is a journey to the crazy contraptions that developed into through Manitoba’s past, present, and future. household appliances, explore Manitoba’s electrical history from the 1880s to now. Planetarium Interactive exhibits include a towering robot Winnipeg is home to one of only fi ve major made of over 50 household appliances! Planetariums in the country and features live Open Monday to Thursday from 1:00 pm to interactive multimedia shows that re-create 4:00 pm and by appointment. Guided tours the current night sky, highlight the latest space are available. Special events include All That discoveries, and follows the developments of the Glows: Then and Now, an annual celebration space program. From adventure-inspired animated of holiday lighting trends, running from mid children’s shows to feature presentations that will November to mid January. satisfy the astronomy enthusiast, the Planetarium introduces the wonders of the universe to sky 680 Harrow Street – Corydon / Fort Rouge watchers of all ages. 204.477.7905 Science Gallery www.hydro.mb.ca/museum The Science Gallery features many fun, interactive exhibits that encourage learning The Manitoba Museum and discovery. Visitors can learn what they’d weigh on other planets, interact with a tornado, The Manitoba Museum is an award-winning explore basic principles of science, and try heritage and edutainment centre welcoming out their talents on a laser harp. There’s always thousands of visitors each year. something new to experience at The Manitoba Museum’s Science Gallery.

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37 Maple Grove Tea Room Le Musée de at Kennedy House Saint-Boniface / Maple Grove Tea Room is located inside St. Boniface Museum the 1866 historic Kennedy House, home to Stand within the oldest building in Winnipeg, entrepreneur and explorer Captain William and the largest oak log structure in North Kennedy. The home features a museum America. The Museum depicts the lives of the depicting the furnishings of that era. Have French and Métis people. Originally the Grey a delicious homemade dessert or lunch on Nuns Convent, this museum also boasts the the patio or Tea Room that overlooks the Red largest collection of Louis Riel artifacts in the River and the beautiful fl ower gardens on country. the grounds of Kennedy House. Tea Room 494 avenue Taché – Old St. Boniface / reservations, group and special occasion Winnipeg’s French Quarter bookings are available. 204.237.4500 Season runs from early May through the [email protected] last weekend in September. 417 River Road, St. Andrews (12-minute www.msbm.mb.ca drive north of the Perimeter Highway on Highway # 9) – Just Outside (North) Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural 204.334.2498 and Educational Centre [email protected] View the largest collection of Ukrainian www.maple.grove.weebly.com historical and cultural artifacts in North America including a museum, library, art gallery, archives and boutique. Mennonite Heritage Village * Open Monday to Saturday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Sundays in summer from 1:00 pm The Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach to 4:00 pm off ers an opportunity to experience and appreciate the rugged lifestyle endured by 184 Alexander Avenue East – Exchange District Mennonites and other pioneer settlers. Learn 204.942.0218 the history of the Anabaptist movement in [email protected] Europe and the Americas. Tour the unique, fully-functional windmill, sod dugout www.oseredok.org shelter, log home and house-barns. Visit the blacksmith shop, print shop, stores, historic schools and churches, and see various farm Promenade Taché / animals, antique steam engines, tractors, Grey Nuns Walkway vehicles and implements. On special events Enjoy a beautiful, cross-river view of The Forks days see costumed interpreters in many and the Winnipeg skyline from the lamp-lit of the historic buildings and pioneer skills Promenade Taché. Interpretive plaques along demonstrations. Authentic cuisine can be the walkway explain the early development of sampled in the Livery Barn Restaurant. St. Boniface. See you in Steinbach … “It’s worth the trip!” Avenue Taché, just over the Esplanade Just 45 minutes from downtown Winnipeg; Riel Pedestrian Bridge – Old St. Boniface / take Highway 1 East and then 15 km south Winnipeg’s French Quarter on Highway 12. 204.326.9661 / 1.800.280.8741 [email protected] www.mhv.ca Below: St. Boniface Museum

38 Queen’s Own Cameron St. Andrew’s Rectory Highlanders of Canada Museum National Historic Site View displays of uniforms, weapons, pictures View exhibits depicting the history of the and artifacts from 1870 to the present, telling rectory and its founders. Enjoy the beauty of the the story of Western Canada’s oldest highland restored Rectory (built between 1850 and 1855) unit. and period landscaping. Special events are held throughout the season, call for information. 230-969 St. Matthews Avenue (Minto Armoury) – West End Season runs from mid May through Labour Day. 204.786.4300, ext 3436 River Road Heritage Parkway and St. Andrews Road – Just Outside (North) Riel House National 204.334.6405 Historic Site of Canada www.pc.gc.ca/standrewsrectory Take a glimpse into the life of Louis Riel, Métis leader and founder of Manitoba, at his family’s St. Boniface historic house, restored to its 1886 appearance. Cathedral-Basilica 330 River Road – St. Vital The original cathedral, built in 1908, was 204.257.1783 destroyed by fi re in 1968. The remaining walls were incorporated into the design of www.pc.gc.ca/riel the new church, creating a dramatic façade facing west across the Red River towards Ross House Museum downtown Winnipeg. 190 avenue de la Cathédrale – Ross House was the fi rst post offi ce west of Old St. Boniface / Winnipeg’s French Quarter Thunder Bay. In 1855, the Council of Assiniboia appointed William Ross postmaster and the 204.237.4500 offi ce was in the log house he had built for his www.cathedralestboniface.mb.ca home. The construction is a prime example of a Red River frame building where all the oak timber logs were hand carved. The Manitoba St. John’s Cathedral Historical Society hosts an interpretive exhibit as well as rooms set to refl ect the life of a and Cemetery prominent Métis family. No admission fee. The parish of St. John has been a presence in the north end of Winnipeg since 1820. The Open Wednesday to Sunday from 10:30 am to fi rst worshippers were the Selkirk settlers and 4:30 pm. Season runs from June 1 to August 31. Hudson’s Bay Company employees. Today’s 140 Meade St. North (Joe Zuken Heritage Cathedral draws its congregation from all Park) - Historic North Point Douglas over the city. The cemetery surrounding the 204.943.3958 Cathedral predates the parish, established by [email protected] the Selkirk Settlers soon after their arrival in 1812, making it the oldest cemetery west of www.mhs.mb.ca the Great Lakes. Sunday Services: 10:30 am Royal Winnipeg Rifl es The cemetery is open year-round Regimental Museum from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Stop in at this Museum depicting western 135 Anderson Avenue – North End Canada’s oldest infantry militia unit dating back 204.586.8385 to 1870. The Museum collects, displays and [email protected] interprets articles and artifacts pertaining to the history of the Regiment. www.stjohnscathedral.ca Open Tuesdays from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. 969 St. Matthews Avenue (Minto Armouries) – West End 204.786.4300, ext 3492 / 204.895.2588 www.mts.net/~rwpgrif

39 Seven Oaks House Museum Western Canada Constructed in the 1850s entirely of oak logs, Aviation Museum this original Inkster homestead houses artifacts Take your imagination to the sky! Enter of the Red River settlers. through Gate 1, and step back in time and Open daily from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Guided let the pioneer aviators of the northwest tours are available. Admission by donation. take you on an inspirational journey through aviation history. Your visit will be fi lled with Season runs from Victoria Day long weekend tales from the sky, great ideas (and not so great to Labour Day. ideas) in fl ight, and a true appreciation for the 115 Rupertsland Boulevard – North End adventuring spirit. 204.339.7429 The Museum also houses an interactive play area for kids aged 2 to 12. Fly a plane, cycle a propeller, build a rocket, spot a fl ying saucer… Transcona and still be back in time for dinner. Historical Museum Hangar T-2, 958 Ferry Road, just fi ve minutes The Transcona Historical Museum’s mission is from Polo Park Shopping Centre – St. James to maintain and promote the history, stories 204.786.5503 and community spirit of Transcona. Exhibits rotate yearly, but feature the community and www.wcam.mb.ca railway history of the area, fi rst and second world war history, Manitoba archaeology as well as moths and butterfl ies from around Winnipeg Police Museum the world. Educational programs and Displays and artifacts are featured relating to group presentations may be arranged by the history of the Winnipeg Police Force dating appointment. from its beginning in 1874 to the present. Summer hours (June - August) are Monday Open Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to to Saturday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. 4:00 pm. Free admission. Regular hours (September - May) are 130 Allard Avenue – St. James Tuesday to Saturday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Closed January. 204.986.3976 [email protected] 141 Regent Ave West - Transcona 204.222.0423 www.winnipeg.ca/police/museum [email protected] www.transconamuseum.mb.ca Winnipeg Railway Museum Climb the stairs of the historic Via Rail Station to Ukrainian tracks 1 and 2, where you will discover 37,500 Museum of Canada * square feet of railway history and artifacts. See the Countess of Duff erin, the fi rst steam The Museum is located in the Holy Trinity locomotive on the prairies, also diesel Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral. It is a Winnipeg and electric locomotives, rolling stock, landmark featuring a Ukrainian Baroque maintenance of way equipment, the history of architectural style with an exterior mosaic CN, CP, City of Winnipeg rail, the construction by Leo Mol, a carved icon screen wall and of the Hudson Bay Railway, the struggle of stained glass windows. The Museum houses women to enter the railroad industry, a large a collection of Ukrainian folk arts and crafts, a HO gauge model layout and fi nish with a visit library and gift shop. to our railroad oriented gift shop. Open Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to Located upstairs on Tracks 1 and 2 in 4:00 pm. The season runs from July Via Rail Union Station. Entrances available through August. from Broadway and Main or the Forks 1175 Main Street – North End Market entrance – Downtown / The Forks 204.582.1018 204.942.4632 [email protected] www.wpgrailmuseum.com

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41 Whether it’s a visit to Carol Shields Memorial NEW! Labyrinth the city’s most popular The Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth is a free, outdoor garden labyrinth which tourist destination commemorates world renowned author, Carol Shields. It is a showcase for gardening and landscaping and is the largest contemporary or examining one of labyrinth in Canada. It is the only labyrinth in the world that is bowl shaped. This enhances Canada’s greatest its healing benefi ts. The wheelchair accessible walking path off ers a wonderful recreational hermetic code opportunity for people of all ages and physical capabilities. The Quote Walls are a unique component of this labyrinth and the diff erent mysteries, you’ll never textured granite tiles display a myriad of quotes from Carol Shields’ works. Anyone entering run out of fascinating the labyrinth passes through Carol’s words escaping from daily life as they enter a world of things to explore in story, myth and imagination. King’s Park, just south of the University of Winnipeg. Manitoba off King’s Drive - Fort Garry [email protected] www.carolshieldslabyrinth.ca

4242 Circle of Life Winnipeg’s French Quarter. The structure, Thunderbird House cable-stayed from a single, transversely inclined pylon rising 57 metres above the Circle of Life Thunderbird House is the home Red River, refl ects the lightweight nature of for Aboriginal spirituality and culture. It is a its pedestrian traffi c, while the spire signifi es focal point and mecca for Aboriginal people a place of meeting in the middle of the Red coming from rural communities to an urban River. A historical diorama can be viewed from environment. the bridge. The bridge was named in honour Open Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. of Louis Riel. Corner of Higgins Avenue and Water Avenue / Provencher Boulevard – Main Street – Exchange District The Forks / Old St. Boniface / Winnipeg’s French Quarter 204.940.4240 www.thunderbirdhouse.com Exchange District National Historic Site City Hall Established in the early 20th century, the Visit the city’s headquarters for City Council. Exchange District National Historic Site is the Please call to reserve a tour. original centre of commerce and culture in 510 Main Street – Exchange District Winnipeg. The District has been preserved and nurtured as one of North America’s most 204.986.2171 / 204.986.6069 (tours) colourful and cosmopolitan neighbourhoods. www.winnipeg.ca Providing a unique backdrop for Winnipeg’s bustling business and arts community, the 30-block District is a showcase for what is Collège universitaire perhaps the most extensive collection of turn- de Saint-Boniface NEW! of-the-century architecture on the continent. Western Canada’s premier French-language 204.942.6716 post-secondary institution is both a university [email protected] and a technical college. Founded in 1818, Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface was the www.exchangedistrict.org fi rst teaching establishment in Western Canada and a co-founder of the University of Manitoba. The Forks National CUSB provides a diverse and inclusive Historic Site of Canada * intercultural learning environment which promotes lifelong personal and professional Discover a green oasis in the heart of growth in an intimate setting. CUSB graduates Winnipeg. This nine-acre (3.6 hectare) park, emerge with a powerful set of employable which encompasses open green spaces skills and abilities, plus the important asset of and a tree-lined river walkway, is a national being bilingual – a distinct advantage in most treasure owned and operated by Parks Canada. career paths today. Enlightening interpretive displays, inspiring sculptures, stone pictographs and ceremonial 200 avenue de la Cathédrale – bronze gambling sticks embody the Site’s rich Old St. Boniface / Winnipeg’s French Quarter continuum of historical events that span over 204.233.0210 6,000 years. [email protected] 25 Forks Market Road – The Forks www.cusb.info Forks National Historic Site Offi ce 204.983.6757 Esplanade Riel For information on Parks Canada in Pedestrian Bridge Manitoba, visit the Travel Manitoba Centre at The Forks, or call Parks Canada at This fi ve-metre wide and 250-metre long 1.888.773.8888 “people path,” is located north of the junction of the historic Red and Assiniboine Rivers, www.pc.gc.ca/forks and provides a link between The Forks and

Above left: Oak Hammock Marsh Below left: The Forks

4343 On Site at The Forks The Forks Market Explore Manitoba Centre The Forks’ unique history continues into its (Travel Manitoba ) bustling market. Originally two adjacent stables for competing rail companies circa Located in the heart of Winnipeg at The 1900, the horse stalls were joined together by Forks (adjacent to the Johnston Terminal), a courtyard and bridges to create The Forks the Explore Manitoba Centre is a permanent Market, Winnipeg’s incomparable shopping theme pavilion with over 8,000 square feet experience. of incredible displays and exhibits that gives both visitors and residents alike a true sense The Forks Market off ers a multitude of shops of the diversity and grandeur of Manitoba. The to browse for a wide variety of specialty items Explore Manitoba Centre also serves as a full- and souvenirs. Downstairs, The Market features service information centre, providing visitors an irresistible fresh food emporium with with information on Manitoba and Winnipeg. everything from gourmet cheeses to meats, The Trans Canada Yellowhead Highway starts organic baked goods and wine. In the upstairs at mile “0” located at the centre. Hayloft, shoppers will fi nd items ranging from cigars and aromatherapy products to crafts Open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm mid-May and artworks from 300 local and Canadian to Labour Day, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm September artisans. to mid-May. Open year-round. 204.927.7838 / 1.800.665.0040 [email protected] 204.942.6302 [email protected] www.travelmanitoba.com www.theforks.com

Festival Park The Forks Market Plaza Festival Park and Scotiabank Stage create Centrally located at the heart of The Forks, The the epicentre for many of Winnipeg’s fi nest Plaza as it is aff ectionately known by locals, is concerts and events including Canada always a great place to meet. Day at The Forks presented by Rogers and Folklorama’s annual kick off celebrations. The In the winter, The Forks Market Plaza is home 1999 Pan Am Games main stage concerts, to an artifi cially cooled skating rink, Winnipeg’s Spiritfest and the Warchild Concert of 2000 own version of Rockefeller Centre. Families, were also held here. tourists and lovers ice skate for free to piped-in music under the lovely canopy and twinkling In the summer of 2004, a new pathway lights. opened through Festival Park, connecting the Esplanade Riel Pedestrian Bridge with Union Come summer, The Forks Market Plaza features Station on Main Street. The pathway follows fountains, canopies, several open performance the historic alignment of Broadway, connecting spaces and incomparable patios. St. Boniface with downtown Winnipeg via 204.942.6302 The Forks. The pathway celebrates the many [email protected] historic themes of The Forks, including Aboriginal and railway history. www.theforks.com 204.942.6302 [email protected] Johnston Terminal www.theforks.com This historic building off ers three levels of fabulous shopping and dining. Originally constructed in the 1920s, this beautifully Top Right: The Forks Market Bottom Right: FortWhyte Alive restored building now boasts Manitoba-owned businesses including shops, specialty boutiques, restaurants and a large antique mall. Whether you are meeting for coff ee, dining with friends and family or shopping for that unique gift, the Johnston Terminal is the place to be. Open year-round. 204.956.5593

44 Oodena Celebration Circle FortWhyte Alive * Near the convergence of the two rivers is a Winnipeg’s award-winning 640-acre nature natural shallow amphitheatre known as the centre showcases a 30-head Bison Prairie herd, Oodena Celebration Circle. It pays homage 5 lakes, 7km of trails, Prairie Dog Town, Family to the 60,000 years of Aboriginal peoples in Tree House, bird feeding stations, Pioneer Sod the area. Oodena, Cree for “the centre of the House, Tipi Encampment, fl oating boardwalks, city,” features ethereal sculptures, a sundial, Aquarium of the Prairies, Nature Gift Shop, and interpretive signage, a naked eye observatory Buff alo Stone Café. and a ceremonial fi re pit, making it a desirable Experience outdoor activities all year long venue for Aboriginal and cultural celebrations including, fi shing, canoeing, hiking, wildlife or a place to simply sit and marvel at its beauty. watching, snowshoeing, skating, X-country skiing, and the super Richardson run toboggan slide. The Skateboard Plaza at the Forks Open Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 10:00 am to The Plaza at The Forks is Canada’s best and 5:00 pm. Extended summer and fall hours. largest urban skate plaza and bowl complex. The Skateable Sculpture Plaza is an urban 1961 McCreary Road – Tuxedo landscape designed and built for the regular 204.989.8355 use and enjoyment of skateboarders and BMX [email protected] cyclists as well as to sensitively integrate into the urban park-like and highly programmed www.fortwhyte.org setting that already exists. The Plaza at The Forks is the fi rst of its kind in Canada (if not the world) to be integrated into the urban context Manitoba in the heart of a downtown. Legislative Building Visit Manitoba’s number one citizen, the beloved “Golden Boy,” who is perched atop the Provincial The Wall Through Time Legislative Building. Completed in 1920, many The Wall Through Time forms a graphic consider this building to be the fi nest provincial retelling of historic events that took place at legislative building in the country. Guided tours The Forks throughout its 6,000-year history. are available. Call for details. The Path Through Time sculpture features two 450 Broadway – Downtown bronze shells and a limestone centrepiece. 204.945.5813 Fort Gibraltar www.gov.mb.ca/legtour Visit historical Fort Gibraltar from May 19 to August 29 and witness the fascinating history through the eyes of the voyageurs that lived it! Costumed interpreters transport you back in time to the exciting age of the fur trade. Tour a reconstructed nineteenth-century fort and discover the diverse cast of characters that call it home. Corner of St-Joseph and Messager Streets – Old St. Boniface / Winnipeg’s French Quarter 204.237.7692 [email protected] www.fortgibraltar.com

45 Millennium Library Pineridge Hollow * This award-winning architectural gem is the A wonderful escape on seven beautiful acres! main branch of Winnipeg Public Library’s 20 Enjoy a delicious breakfast, lunch or dinner branch system and is truly worth a visit. Every in the restaurant or screened-in porch seven day, up to 5,000 visitors come through its days a week. Visit the quaint gift shop to doors in search of reading material, movies discover unique home decor and giftware, and music, free Internet and wifi access and then tour the beautifully landscaped gardens stimulating programs for all ages. The Human and greenhouse. From July to September, visit Bean Coff ee & Tea, the Best of Friends Gift the Farmers’ Market every Saturday to support Shop, the Local History Room, expressive talented local growers and producers. public art, informative displays, soaring grand Heatherdale Road N. off Garven Road – staircase bathed in light, access to the skywalk Just Outside (Northeast) system and convenient hours all make the Millennium Library a favourite downtown From inside Bird’s Hill Park take South destination for residents and visitors alike. Drive (directly across from the White-Tailed Deer Trail) Open Monday to Thursday from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm and Friday to Saturday from 10:00 am 204.777.3880 to 5:00 pm. Open Sundays from 1:00 pm to [email protected] 5:00 pm, Labour Day to Victoria Day. www.pineridgehollow.com 251 Donald Street (across from cityplace and the MTS Centre) - Downtown * 204.986.6450 Prairie Dog Central Railway [email protected] More than just a train ride! The Prairie Dog Central Railway operates a fully restored 1900- www.winnipeg.ca/library era vintage train with fi ve wooden coaches pulled by either an 1882 steam or a 1950s classic GP9 diesel locomotive. Each unique Oak Hammock Marsh trip incorporates station stops at Grosse Isle Interpretive Centre and / or Warren, where there are generally local Come see why Oak Hammock Marsh country vendors with home baking, produce Interpretive Centre has been voted the world’s and handicrafts. The Freight Shed off ers “Best Environmental Experience.” Under the souvenirs and gifts at the Inkster Junction guidance of friendly interpreters, you can trek Station. the nature trails, take a guided tour of the Weekends and holiday Mondays from May Marsh, go canoeing, view wildlife, watch a fi lm through September, every trip is unique; in the multimedia theatre, enjoy a meal in the Halloween Express Trains in October, and Santa café and check out the fun, interactive exhibits. Trains in November and December. Engineer Open daily year-round. For a Day, Party Caboose, Ride In the Caboose, and Charters available upon request. 20 minutes north of Winnipeg at Highways #67 and #220 – Inkster Junction Station located on Prairie Just Outside (North) Dog Trail on the north side of Inkster Boulevard between Route 90 and 204.467.3300 / 1.888.50MARSH Sturgeon Road – Just Outside (Northwest) [email protected] 204.832.5259 www.oakhammockmarsh.ca [email protected] www.pdcrailway.com

46 Royal Canadian Mint University of Winnipeg The Royal Canadian Mint’s facility in Winnipeg, The University of Winnipeg campus is a designed by local architect Etienne Gaboury, downtown hub that connects people from produces billions of coins each year. This is diverse cultures and nurtures global citizens. where all Canadian circulation coins are made, They are innovators, off ering programs that are as well as those for over 60 governments all unique in Canada such as a Masters Degree in around the world. A fascinating guided tour Aboriginal Governance and a Bachelor of Arts overlooking the state-of-the-art manufacturing Degree in Human Rights and Global Studies. facility reveals the precise art, craft, and science A quick stroll across Portage Commons and of coin-making! around the expanding campus highlights its focus as a leader in academic excellence, Open year-round, the on-site Boutique off ers Aboriginal education, environmental studies, beautiful collector coins, an exclusive line of and theatre and arts. The University of Royal Canadian Mint clothing, and an exciting Winnipeg off ers small class sizes, Canada’s collection of souvenirs and gift ideas. The only on-campus university high school and adjacent interactive coin museum involves the is home to the Winnipeg Wesmen. Graduates visitor in unique learning activities including value their educational experience, and in the ability to make your own souvenir coin and the June 2008 issue of Maclean’s Graduate the opportunity to lift and hold a 99.99% pure Survey ranked UWinnipeg in the Top-10 of all gold bar worth over $400,000. Canadian universities. This vote of confi dence is 520 Lagimodiere Boulevard (at the backed by the Globe & Mail Report Card 2008 junction of Highways #1 and #59) – St. Vital which gives UWinnipeg an overall “A” grade. 204.983.6429 / 1.877.WPG.MINT (974.6468) 515 Portage Avenue – Downtown [email protected] 204.786.7811 General information at www.uwinnipeg.ca University of Manitoba Detailed information about The University of Winnipeg’s Aboriginal Governance program Every year, 26,000 of Canada’s best and can be found at ag.uwinnipeg.ca brightest students go to the University of Manitoba to discover their strengths and build their futures. Combine these curious minds with world-class professors and researchers, Upper Fort Garry Gate and you have a dynamic environment that has View the last remaining gate of the Upper been contributing to the social, cultural, and Fort Garry. The Fort was built by Hudson’s Bay economic fabric of Manitoba since 1877. Visit Company in the 1830s and served the fur trade the Fort Garry Campus to see rocks and fossils until 1870, before becoming the seat of the from millions of years ago at the Cretaceous government for the District of Assiniboia. Menagerie; view contemporary and historical West of Main Street, south of Broadway – art at Gallery One One One; take in a jazz, Downtown opera, choral, or chamber music concert in Eva Clare Hall; or cheer on the elite Bison athletes in the sport of your choice – football, hockey, Winnipeg Chinese Cultural basketball and more! and Community Centre One University. Many Futures. Discover the heart of Winnipeg’s Chinese 66 Chancellors, Fort Garry community, featuring replicas of Confucius and Campus Circle – Fort Garry a Qin Dynasty terracotta warrior with horse. 727 McDermot Ave, Bannatyne The Dynasty Building is an excellent example Campus –North End of architecture in the Chinese tradition. Its multi-roof design is a symbol of good luck, and 204. 474.8880 / 1.800.432.1960 its beautiful Chinese Gardens form a tranquil public_aff [email protected] retreat in the heart of the city. Be sure to visit www.umanitoba.ca the Centre’s interior where you’ll see a replica of the famous Nine Imperial Dragon Mural, a statue of Guan Yin and a Bronze Buddha.

Left: Prarie Dog Central Railway 180 King Street – The Exchange District 204.943.2627 / 204.943.1197 www.wcccc.ca

47 Winnipeg’s parks Assiniboine Forest Discover one of Canada’s largest urban nature are more than green parks. The looped, 1 km paved Sagimay Nature Trail takes you through forest and meadow to the Eve Werier Memorial Pond. A 6 km system of space; they’re a woodchip trails radiate from the Sagimay Trail. location for music, Corner of Chalfont Street and Grant Avenue – Tuxedo entertainment and Call 311 for information, Outside of Winnipeg call year-round fun! 1-877-311-4WPG (4974)

Above and Right: Assiboine Park Zoo Below: Assiboine Park Pavilion

4848 Assiniboine Park Lyric Theatre Explore over 398 acres along the Assiniboine The Lyric Theatre carries on the tradition of River. The Zoo, Conservatory, English Garden, summer bandshell entertainment in the Park. Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, Tudor-style pavilion, The large outdoor stage features performances and a fi ne example of a French formal garden for every taste and age, including Ballet in are a few of the features found in the Park. the Park, the symphony, and opera and jazz. Picnic areas and cycling and walking trails are The Lyric Theatre features great quality family popular with visitors. In winter, enjoy cross- entertainment, all provided free of charge. country skiing, tobogganing and skating on Season runs from June to September. the Duck Pond. 204.888.5466 2355 Corydon Avenue – Tuxedo www.assiniboinepark.ca The Pavilion Gallery Museum As the centerpiece of Assiniboine Park, the On Site at Assiniboine Park Pavilion houses a gallery museum featuring the Assiniboine Park Conservatory largest collections of works by three renowned Manitoba artists: Ivan Eyre, Clarence Tillenius, Featuring an ever-changing fl oral display and and Walter J. Phillips. The Gallery’s unique an international horticultural collection, the architecture provides a natural fl ow from one Conservatory’s controlled climate is a great intimate space to another, allowing you to place to experience nature 365 days a year. spend time with each beautiful work of art. The A feast for the senses, you can also take in art artists’ works are rotated four times a year and displays and seasonal programming or enjoy tours are available. light meals and refreshments at the cozy Star Conservatory restaurant. The Pavilion also features fi ne dining at Terrace 55 located on the main fl oor. For reservations Currently open year-round. call 204.938.5466. 204.986.5537 Currently open year-round. 204.888.5466 Assiniboine Park Zoo Featuring over 400 species in its collection, the Winnie the Bear statue Assiniboine Park Zoo off ers close interaction Did you know the famous children’s character with animals from all corners of the world. Winnie the Pooh was named after Winnipeg? With both indoor and outdoor exhibits, the There is a statue commemorating Winnie the Zoo specializes in cold-climate, hardy species Bear and her owner, Captain Harry Colebrourn, from northern latitudes and mountain ranges. at Assiniboine Park Zoo. A range of exotic animals is also featured in the ever-changing animal collection. Currently open daily, year-round. 204.986.BEAR (986.2327) 204.982.0660 for camp, tours and special events

Leo Mol Sculpture Garden Visit this beautiful garden featuring over 300 bronze sculptures, ceramics and paintings by internationally-renowned sculpture, Dr. Leo Mol. Enjoy the tranquility of the garden with its spectacular year-round open water feature, vine-covered arbor and the Leo Mol Schoolhouse Studio and gift shop. Currently open year-round; Leo Mol guided tours available. 204.888.5466

49 Birds Hill Provincial Park Harbour View Featuring hills and ridges formed by ancient Recreation Complex glaciers, this 35 square kilometer / 22 square Enjoy a day of play with a nine-hole par 27 mile Park has a lake, oak and aspen forests, golf course, mini golf, driving range, lawn native prairie wildfl owers, deer, waterfowl bowling, tennis, horseshoes, shuffl eboard, sand and songbirds. Facilities include camping, volleyball and paddleboats. During the winter, swimming, picnic sites, a riding stable, enjoy ice skating on the lake, tobogganing, a restaurant, a beach concession and a cross-country skiing and broomball. convenience store. There are 30 kms / 18.5 Professional golf and cross-country ski miles of trails for walking and cross-country instruction and rental equipment are available. skiing and 7.2 kms / 4.5 miles of paved bicycle Open year-round. and roller blading trails. Every July the park hosts the Winnipeg Folk Festival. 2.5 kms east of Highway #59 at 1867 Springfi eld Road, within Kilcona Park - 24 kms / 14 miles northeast of Winnipeg on Transcona Highway #59 – Just Outside (North) 204.222.2751 [email protected] Grand Beach Provincial Park www.lakelandgolfmanagement.com Resting along the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg - Canada’s fi fth largest lake - and next Kildonan Park to the historic La Vérendrye Trail, are powdery Walk among some of the oldest and largest white sand beaches and grass-topped dunes trees in Manitoba, through a formal garden that make this one of the top beaches in North and Hansel & Gretel’s “Witch Hut”. The Park America. The dunes reach as high as 8 metres / is also home to Canada’s longest-running 30 feet. It is an excellent place to swim, wind outdoor theatre, Rainbow Stage. An Olympic- surf or hike, and off ers three excellent self- sized swimming pool and plenty of picnic guided walks: Spirit Rock Trail, Wild Wings Trail tables and barbeque pits are available in the and the Ancient Beach Trail. summer. The toboggan slides and skating 87 kms / 54 miles northeast of Winnipeg on pond are open in the winter. Highway #59 – Just Outside (North) 2015 Main St. – North Main (West Kildonan) www.grandbeachtourism.com Call 311 – for events, weddings/pictures, and picnics, Outside of Winnipeg call 1-877-311-4WPG (4974) www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/ ParksandFields/ParkBooking/ Bookableparks/Kildonanpark.asp

King’s Park Bordering on the Red River, King’s Park has many pathways (gravel and paved) to enjoy some of which lead to marshland. In the centre of the park you will fi nd the beautiful Pagoda Gardens. The Park also has a soccer fi eld, two baseball diamonds and an off -leash dog park area. King’s Drive and Kilkenny Drive – Fort Garry (close to the U of M Campus) Call 311 – for events & wedding picture locations, Outside of Winnipeg call 1-877-311-4WPG (4974) www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/ ParksandFields/ParkBooking/ Bookableparks/Kingspark.asp

Left: Little Mountain Park Top right: Kildonan Park Bottom right: King’s Park

50 La Barriere Park St. Vital Park Canoe, fi sh, hike and bike in the summer or Situated on the Red River, this Park is the enjoy cross-country skiing and snowshoeing perfect place for family get-togethers and in the winter. Nature tours available by calling recreational sports. Numerous picnic sites and 204.832.0167 wedding photo locations can be booked. In winter, the duck pond becomes a skating rink. Located on Waverley Street, south of the Perimeter Hwy – Just Outside (south). River Road, north of Bishop Grandin Boulevard – St. Vital Call 311 – for picnic sites and event reservations, Outside of Winnipeg call Call 311 – for events and picnic site 1-877-311-4WPG (4974) reservation, Outside of Winnipeg call 1-877-311-4WPG (4974) www.winnipeg.ca/ publicworksParksandFields/ParkBooking/ www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/ Bookableparks/labarriere.asp ParksandFields/ParkBooking/ Bookableparks/stvitalpark.asp Little Mountain Park More information on off -leash dog parks Enjoy hiking trails, a limestone quarry and can be found at: numerous picnic sites. Naturalist-guided tours www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/ by reservation (204.832.0167). Large off -leash ParksandFields/Parks/FieldsForFido.asp dog park area is also located in this park. Klimpke Road, northwest of Route 90 and Inkster Boulevard – Just Outside Call 311 – for events and picnic site reservation, Outside of Winnipeg call 1-877-311-4WPG (4974) www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/ ParksandFields/ParkBooking/ Bookableparks/Littlemountainpark.asp

51 cityplace Grant Park Shopping Centre Essential Downtown Shopping! cityplace is Grant Park Shopping Centre opened as a in the heart of the city and features a variety community centre in 1964 and has since of shops and restaurants, a liquor mart and a evolved into a vibrant, urban centre of nearly pharmacy. 400,000 square feet and over 70 shops and services. 333 St. Mary Avenue, between Donald and Hargrave Streets - Downtown 1120 Grant Avenue – River Heights 204.989.1800 204.475.8556 www.cityplacewinnipeg.com www.grantparkshoppingcentre.com

Garden City Kildonan Place Shopping Centre Shopping Centre Garden City off ers over 75 shops and services With over 100 stores and services, Kildonan and has what you need to make your home, Place is northeast Winnipeg’s largest shopping and your life, more comfortable. Enjoy a relaxed centre. This family-oriented regional mall and friendly atmosphere while shopping for is home to Camp KP, a children’s play area, essentials or indulging in the not-so-essentials. and incomparable Guest Services including complimentary use of strollers, wheelchairs 2305 McPhillips Street at and motorized scooters. Leila Avenue – North End 1555 Regent Avenue West – Transcona 204.339.0956 204.661.6116 www.shopgardencity.ca [email protected] www.kildonanplace.com

Above: Kildonan Place Shopping Centre Below: Polo Park Shopping Centre

5252 Polo Park Shopping Centre Shopping Districts Centrally located, Polo Park off ers over 200 stores Academy Road and services including restaurants, cinemas, Academy Road off ers the fi nest shops and bowling, and the city’s largest selection of services catering to the discriminating retailers. A bright airy setting and a superior shopper, with designer-original fashions, toy Guest Services program make Polo Park the ideal and gift shops, bakeries, a specialty grocery shopping experience for everyone. store, coff ee houses and restaurants, gourmet 1485 Portage Avenue – St. James catered fare, a chocolatier, a gourmet food and 204.784.2500 wine store and much more. [email protected] www.academyroadbiz.com www.polopark.ca Corydon Avenue Portage Place Corydon is a magical street that transforms Shopping Centre itself to suit your mood and your lifestyle. You’ll fi nd a dazzling mix of fashion boutiques, Free weekend parking* and skywalk access restaurants, curio and antique shops, jewellery, to MTS Centre. Portage Place is the hub of furniture, gift stores, a book and plant store, downtown Winnipeg with over 100 services, upscale second-hand boutiques and anything restaurants and shops, including Holt Renfrew else you can imagine. Winnipeg Personal Shopping & Cosmetics and the spectacular Entertainment Level featuring 204.284.3700 IMAX, the Globe Cinema and Prairie Theatre www.corydonbiz.com Exchange. *When you show same day receipts totaling $20 The Exchange District 393 Portage Avenue, between Carlton and Vaughan Street – Downtown Check out all the Exchange District has to off er! Antiques, book stores, gift shops, clothing and 204.925.4636 furniture boutiques make the neighbourhood [email protected] a unique shopping destination. Established in www.portageplace.mb.ca the early 20th century, the Exchange District National Historic Site is the original centre of commerce and culture in Winnipeg. The St. Vital Centre backdrop to the city’s bustling business and arts scene, the district has been preserved St. Vital Centre is Manitoba’s total shopping and nurtured as one of North America’s most experience with over 160 unique stores colourful and cosmopolitan neighbourhoods. and services. This family-friendly destination features a great selection of casual dining Exchange the ordinary for something options, a kids play area and Kids Club and an extraordinary! exceptional Customer Services program. 204.942.6716 Bishop Grandin Boulevard and [email protected] St. Marys Road – St. Vital www.exchangedistrict.org 204.257.5646 www.stvitalcentre.com Osborne Village Merchants off er a variety of goods from Winnipeg Square coff ee to cookware, books to home furnishings, giftware to gold, music to pottery. Winnipeg’s largest underground mall off ers Contemporary fashions suited to every style are over 45 shops, services and restaurants catering off ered in many fi ne stores. to the needs of downtown workers, business travellers and tourists. Shop the Square, 204.474.1008 downstairs at Portage and Main. www.osbornevillage.com 360 Main Street - Downtown 204.949.7140 www.winnipegsquare.com

53 Assiniboia Downs * Manitoba Moose Featuring live thoroughbred racing, May Delivering real hockey to real hockey fans, the through late September. Visit the website or Manitoba Moose are the “go-to entertainment call for a live racing schedule. Licensed Terrace destination” for Winnipeggers and visitors alike. Dining Room overlooks the racetrack & off ers The Moose continue to thrill fans and stay atop exceptional dining. the American Hockey League standings while off ering an aff ordable night out in one of the Open year-round: 140-VLT Gaming Lounge & greatest hockey environments in the world – Simulcast Wagering on televised races from MTS Centre. Join the Moose for another great tracks in Canada, USA, and Australia. The facility season and to be a part of this ultimate hockey is also available for trade shows and private experience. and corporate events. Full catering services are available. Season runs from October to April. 3975 Portage Avenue – Just Outside (West) Tickets at Ticketmaster 204.780.3333 or online at www.ticketmaster.ca 204.885.3330 [email protected] 300 Portage Avenue – Downtown www.assiniboiadowns.com 204.987.7825 [email protected] www.moosehockey.com Above: University of Manitoba Bisons and University of Winnipeg Wesmen Below: Assiniboia Downs Right: Canad Inns Stadium

54545454 Team Canada Volleyball Winnipeg Blue Bombers Come out and cheer on your Team Canada! Get in the game with the Winnipeg Blue The only Winnipeg-based Olympic sport, Team Bombers! Experience the history of Bomber Canada Women’s Volleyball regularly hosts football through ten Grey Cup championships, elite international competitions in Winnipeg and more than 75 years of heart-stopping and Manitoba, entertaining thousands of local entertainment in the Canadian Football League. sport enthusiasts. Season runs from June through November. The Team Canada Women’s Volleyball Centre is the training and administration centre for Tickets at Ticketmaster 204.780.3333 or the indoor women’s national volleyball team online at www.ticketmaster.ca. program. 1465 Maroons Road To catch the high-fl ying, hard-hitting volleyball (Canad Inns Stadium) – St. James action, check out the website for the latest 204.784.2583 scoop on Team Canada’s next matches! [email protected] 204.474.7084 www.bluebombers.com www.volleyball.ca Winnipeg Goldeyes University of Canwest Park is home to the Northern League’s Manitoba Bisons Winnipeg Goldeyes Baseball Club. Featuring 28 Bison Sports is the Interuniversity Athletic concessions, 30 luxury Skysuites, a Supersuite, Program at the University of Manitoba. Student and a patio deck for private functions, one athletes have been selected to represent the of the fi nest minor league ballparks in North University of Manitoba in nine diff erent sports America is also home to Hu’s On First, a full- on 16 diff erent teams. On most weekends from service Asian bistro overlooking right fi eld. Total the end of August through the end of March seating capacity is 7,481. you will fi nd these athletes competing in sports In addition to family-friendly Goldeyes baseball, ranging from football to swimming to hockey, the ballpark has played host to concerts and striving to win the right to advance to the other sports, as well as charity and special Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) National events, drawing almost three million people Championships for their respective sport. downtown since it opened in 1999. University of Manitoba – Fort Garry Campus Canwest Park is also available year-round, 204.474.9611 for meetings, conferences and other private [email protected] functions. One Portage Avenue East – Exchange District www.gobisons.ca 204.982.2273 [email protected] University of Winnipeg Wesmen www.goldeyes.com www.canwestpark.com Enjoy exciting University of Winnipeg Wesmen men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball as the teams compete in the Canada west conference from September to March at the Duckworth Centre. 400 Spence Street – Downtown 204.786.9349 [email protected] www.wesmen.ca

5555 PUBLIC GOLF COURSES Winnipeg

Golf Club Address Phone PB/SP Holes DR Res

Arnason’s Golf Course 1799 Waverley Street 204.269.4623 PB 11 Y n/a

Assiniboine Golf Club 2045 Ness Avenue 204.988.9313 SP 9 N 2 days

Bel Acres Golf & C.C. 1200 Sturgeon Road 204.632.8337 SP 18 Y 5 days

Crescent Drive Golf Course 781 Crescent Drive 204.986.5911 PB 9 N 3 days

Harbour View Golf Course 1867 Springfi eld Road 204.222.2751 PB 9 Y 3 days

John Blumberg Golf Course 4540 Portage Avenue 204.986.3490 PB 18/9 Y 7 days

Kildonan Park Golf Course 2021 Main Street 204.986.5679 PB 18 N 3 days

Larters at St. Andrews 30 River Road 204.334.2107 SP 18 Y 7 days

The Players Course 2695 Inkster Boulevard 204.697.4976 PB 9 Y 3 days

River Oaks Golf Course South on Waverley Street 204.261.4653 PB 18 N 5 days

Rossmere Golf Course 925 Watt Street 204.988.1540 SP 18 Y 3 days

Shooters Family Golf Centre 2731 Main Street 204.339.2326 PB 18 Y 7 days

St. Boniface Golf Club 100 Youville Street 204.233.2497 SP 18 N 2 days

Transcona Golf Club 2120 Dugald Road 204.222.6171 SP 18 N 3 days

Tuxedo Golf Course 400 Shaftesbury Boulevard 204.888.2867 PB 18 Y 3 days

The Wildewood Club 761 North Drive 204.284.7385 SP 9 N 2 days

Windsor Park Golf Course 10 Des Meurons Street 204.986.3006 PB 18 N 3 days

Winnipeg Canoe Club 50 Dunkirk Drive 204.233.1105 PB 9 N 7 days

PB = Public; SP = Semi-Private; DR = Driving Range; Res = Reservations

56 Out of town golf courses (approximately 80 kms from Winnipeg)

Golf Club Phone Golf Club Phone

Beausejour Golf Course 204.268.2010 Rat River Golf Club 204.433.7177

Bridges Golf Course 204.735.3000 Ridgewood Golf Course 204.326.6225

Carman Golf Course 204.745.2366 Riverview Golf and Country Club 204.746.2027

Cottonwood Golf Club 204.422.5540 Scotswood Links 204.436.2600

Fantasy Lake Golf Course 204.777.7273 Selkirk Golf and Country Club 204.482.2050

Girouxsalem Golf and Country Club 204.326.5722 South Interlake Golf and Country Club 204.322.5335

Heritage Golf Course 204.757.2830 Southport Golf Course 204.428.3174

Kingswood Golf and Country Culb 204.736.4079 Southside Golf Course 204.254.6709

La Verendrye Golf Club 204.424.5046 Steinbach Fly-in Golf Club 204.320.4653

Lorette Golf Course 204.878.2172 Teulon Golf and Country Club 204.886.4653

Mars Sandhills Golf Course 204.265.6444 The Links at Quarry Oaks 204.326.4653

Netley Creek Golf Course 204.738.4653 The Meadows at East St. Paul 204.667.4653

Oakwood Golf Course 204.422.8045 The Shamrock Golf Course 204.878.2098

Portage La Prairie Golf Club 204.857.6177 Winnipeg Beach Golf Course 204.389.5858

57 Take one of Decoding the Ancient NEW! Egyptian and Masonic these great Mysteries of the Manitoba Legislative Building tours and bring Do you ever wonder why the Manitoba Legislative Building has sphinxes on it? Find out as you bring the Hermetic Code book some of the best to life with this fascinating tour on the many symbols and hidden meanings behind the of the city to life. mystical architecture of the building. You will uncover trails of occult clues concealed in the building’s architecture so intelligently masked it has escaped historians and visitors for nearly Above: Walking Tours of Exchange District a hundred years! Check the website for tour during Doors Open Winnipeg Below: Manitoba Legislative Building dates, prices and for more information. Right: Exchange District 204.989.9630 [email protected] www.heartlandtravel.ca

58 Geocaching and GPS Adventures Why not discover Manitoba’s francophone communities using GPS technology. It’s easy and fun for all ages. Tourisme Riel off ers GPS tours based on themes and regions as well as rental units. No experience is necessary as Tourisme Riel will guide you through the use of a GPS to get you from site to site. It’s like a tour and treasure hunt all in one. And for those interested in geocaching, several caches have been strategically placed in areas of interest in Old St. Boniface. Let the fun begin! Tourisme Riel 204.233.8343 / 1.866.808.8338 Exchange District www.tourismeriel.com Walking Tours Take a guided tour and lose yourself in the Heartland Travel - Haunted early 1900s Winnipeg. Steeped in history, the Winnipeg Bus Tours Exchange District tells the story of our city’s transition from a boomtown to Canada’s current Are you ready to investigate the paranormal? cultural oasis. Knowledgeable and dynamic Are you up to photographing mysterious tour guides tell tales of power, corruption and lights and orbs? Join the tour “undertaker,” who past heroism while you enjoy an exceptional is “dying” to tell you historical tales of haunted collection of architecture from both inside and sites and peculiar activities that take place out. A must-see for any visitor to Winnipeg! at famous haunted locations throughout Winnipeg. The Haunted Winnipeg Bus Tours Group rates available on all tours for 10 or more run on selected nights from June to the end people. General tours are approximately one- of October. Bring your camera and capture the and-a-half hours in duration, specialty tours are spirit! Check the website for a variety of other 45 minutes in length. See the BIZ website for touring options. further tour descriptions. 204.989.9630 Season runs from June to September. [email protected] 204.942.6716 www.heartlandtravel.ca [email protected] www.exchangedistrict.org M.S. River Rouge The M.S. River Rouge off ers public sightseeing The Forks National Historic cruises that sail twice daily from 1:00 pm - 3:00 Site of Canada Tours pm and 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm. Specialty cruises Known as the “Gateway to the Canadian West” such as Family Fun Saturdays, Lower Fort The Forks National Historic Site of Canada Garry and the Sunday Brunch Cruises are also preserves and commemorates its 6,000 year available. Each cruise off ers entertainment. history through enlightening and entertaining The M.S. River Rouge can also be booked for tours. In the guided interpretive tours you can both Corporate and Private charters for groups explore the site with one of the costumed of up to 400 people. Parks Canada guides who bring The Forks’ The M.S. River Rouge hosts Taverna Party colourful past to life. Tours are available in both Cruises every Friday, Saturday, Sunday nights French and English, are approximately one from 10:30 pm - 2:00 am, with disc jockey and hour long and are wheelchair accessible. dancing. Season runs July and August. Tours depart from Please refer to the cruise schedule for exact the Parks Canada Kiosk in the Explore Manitoba times and dates of various cruises that will be Centre at The Forks. taking place on board the M.S. River Rouge. Information and Group Tours The boat docks from the Nairn Avenue Docks 204.98FORKS (983.6757) (312 Nairn) at the foot of the Louise Bridge. www.pc.gc.ca/forks Phone: 204.774.7009 www.theriverrouge.com

59 Muddy Water Tours - Old St. Boniface Walking Tours Historical Walking Experience Winnipeg’s French Quarter and Tours of Winnipeg history at its best. The tour will guide you Walking tours of the downtown area are told through the rich history of the francophone with a combination of drama, intrigue and community and the history of the French precedence. Historical secrets are revealed in Quarter as you visit landmarks and observe the Boom and Bust of Winnipeg; Pestilence, historic architecture. Learn about the Shamans and Doctors; Brookside Cemetery; magnifi cent St. Boniface Cathedral, the great Murder, Mystery and Mayhem and the very fi re, and its new, modern design. popular Haunted Winnipeg Bus Tours. Tours The one-and-a-half to two hour walking tour depart from the VIA Rail Station. of Old St. Boniface is off ered twice daily at Season runs from April 1 to September 15. 10:30 am and 1:30 pm seven days a week from the May long weekend to September 204.997.8687 long weekend and begins at the Tourisme Riel [email protected] offi ce in the Old St. Boniface City Hall at 219 www.muddywatertours.ca Provencher Boulevard. Tours are also available at other times upon request. North Point Douglas, NEW! Walking Through History Tour Tourisme Riel 204.233.8343 / 1.866.808.8338 For many decades following the arrival of the www.tourismeriel.com Selkirk settlers, Point Douglas was the most prestigious location in Winnipeg in which to live. Situated on an attractive peninsula of land Paddlewheel River Boats Ltd. with the river winding around it, the colonists Take a scenic river cruise aboard the had easy access to the Hudson Bay post for Paddlewheel Queen or Paddlewheel Princess supplies, drinking water, and transportation. Its river boats. Dine, dance or just enjoy the citizens were the future leaders of Winnipeg. evening on Winnipeg’s beautiful rivers. The tour begins from the Ross House Season runs from May to October. Museum in Joe Zuken Heritage Park and is approximately 45 minutes long. No admission Alexander Docks (just off Waterfront Drive) – fee. Reservations for a minimum group of four Exchange District and a maximum of 15 are required. 204.942.4500 Season runs July and August from Wednesday [email protected] to Sunday. www.paddlewheelcruises.com 204.943.3958 www.mhs.mb.ca

60 Routes on the Red Tournées Marche-Donc St. Boniface Tours Explore the culture, geography, history and wildlife of Manitoba’s Red River Valley with Take a guided two hour walking tour of more than 20 self-directed Routes on the Red historic St. Boniface and get to know Louis Riel, Tours. Spend an afternoon or day walking in Gabrielle Roy, and Jean-Baptiste Lagimodiere the footsteps of voyageurs, discovering the and Marie-Anne Gaboury, the fi rst non-native legacy of glaciers and grasslands or cycling the couple in the west, as well as local artists and shores of ancient Lake Agassiz. their work. For comprehensive tour itineraries, fascinating Tours are available in French and English for facts and fabulous reasons to walk, cycle, drive groups of fi ve or more from April to October. or paddle your way through the beauty you’ll 204.235.1043 fi nd along the Red River, visit the website. www.routesonthered.ca West End BIZ Mural Walking Tours Splash Dash River Tours, The West End BIZ off ers walking tours of the Charters and The River area’s 50+ murals throughout the summer Spirit Water Bus months. The tours follow two prescribed routes Guided historical tours along the Assiniboine along Ellice Avenue and Sargent Avenue. They and Red Rivers depart The Forks port every 15 are fully guided and provide participants with minutes from 10:00 am to sunset, seven days a information about the murals, historical facts week during the summer months. Adult fares about the area and entertaining stories about are $10, youth and seniors are $9. The Splash the West End. Many of the eclectic shops Charter Boat is a 50-foot licensed cruise boat and ethnic restaurants of the area are also and can accommodate up to 35 people for highlighted as part of an engaging narrative. private functions. Call for reservations. The tours run Tuesday through Saturday The River Spirit Water Bus off ers a and last two hours, with start times available transportation system in the downtown between the hours of 10:00 am and 7:00 pm. Winnipeg area. There are nine docks which are They also include a refreshment stop at a serviced every 15 minutes. One way fare is $3, a West End restaurant. Up to 15 unique murals full day pass is $15. can be viewed per tour, including Adam Beach, Anishinabe, Cartoon Charlie, Costa Canoe rentals are also available at the Forks Rica and Zoohky. Tours can be customized historical port. to fi t schedules and preferences. The cost is 204.783.6633 $5 for adults and $2 for children under 12. Groups of two to fi fteen participants can be www.splashdash.ca accommodated. Season runs from June through September.

Left: Paddlewheel River Boats Ltd. 204.954.7900 Above: West End BIZ Mural Walking Tours [email protected] www.westendbiz.ca

61 Photo Credits Page 21 Page 48 Grand Prix Amusements: Flamingos at the Assiniboine Park Zoo: Front Cover: Grand Prix Amusements Darlene Stack The Nonsuch at the Manitoba Museum: The Manitoba Museum Assiniboine Park Pavilion: Ken Gillespie Page 22 Manitoba Opera, Madama Butterfl y, Teddy Bears’ Picnic: Children’s April 2009: R. Tinker Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Page 49 Cougar at the Assiniboine Park Zoo: Winnipeg Folk Festival: Dennis Buchan Manito Ahbee: Dan Harper Darlene Stack Winnipeg Skyline: Ken Miner Page 23 Photography Arctic Glacier Winter Park: Page 50 Brian Rudolf Little Mountain Park: Bill Ward Manito Ahbee: Manito Ahbee Festival for all Nations Page 24 Page 51 Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail: Festival du Voyageur: Dan Harper Kildonan Park: Bill Ward The Forks King’s Park: Bill Ward Page 26 Page 2 Winnipeg International Children’s Page 52 Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail: Festival: Leif Norman Kildonan Place Shopping Centre: Festival du Voyageur grajewski fotograph Winnipeg Skyline: Page 28 Winnipeg Folk Festival: Denis Buchan Polo Park Shopping Centre: Travel Manitoba Ian McCausland

Page 3 Page 29 CN Canadian Women’s Open: Page 54 Winnipeg International Children’s University of Winnipeg Wesmen and Festival: Dan Harper Canadian Golf Hall of Fame Archives / Bernard Brault University of Manitoba Bisons: Kelly Morton Photography Page 8 Exchange District: Page 30 Assiniboia Downs: Rob Bye Exchange District BIZ Urban Shaman Gallery: Chris Chapman Page 55 Esplanade Riel Bridge: Dan Harper Gallery Lacosse: Cathy Wickett Canad Inns Stadium: Dave Darichuk Page 10 Page 31 Page 56 & 57 Manitoba Opera, Il Travatore, Juncatta International November, 2008: R. Tinker Art and Cold Cash installation at PLATFORM: PLATFORM Black Hole Theatre Company’s Page 58 production of Playboy: Dennis Smith Page 32 Film Walking Tours during FASTWÜRMS exhibition at Plug In ICA: Doors Open Winnipeg: Page 11 Bill Eakin Heritage Winnipeg Corporation Jacelyn Lobay, Amanda Green & Manitoba Legislative Building: Jennifer Welsman in Val Caniparoli’s Page 34 Travel Manitoba A Cinderella Story: David Cooper Mennonite Heritage Village: Gary Martens Page 59 Page 12 Costume Museum of Canada: Exchange District: Laurette Rouillard and Daouda Exchange District BIZ Dembélé in Le Cercle Moliere’s Travel Manitoba production of En conduisant Page 60 Miss Daisy: Hubert Pantel Page 35 Fire Fighters Museum of Winnipeg: Paddlewheel River Boats Ltd.: Sheri Brandt Page 13 Fire Fighters Museum of Winnipeg Manitoba Opera, Madama Butterfl y, Page 61 April 2009: R. Tinker Page 37 Orientation Gallery at the Manitoba West End Biz Mural: West End BIZ Museum: The Manitoba Museum Page 14 Page 66 Pierre Brault in MTC’s production of Whiteshell Provincial Park: 5 O’Clock Bells: Christina Riley Page 38 Le Musée de Saint – Boniface: Travel Manitoba Rob Barrow Page 16 Page 67 Rainbow Stage: Robert Tinker Page 42 WHL: Courtesy of Western Hockey League Page18 Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre: Oak Hammock Marsh Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Page 68 Andrew Sikorski The Forks: Myron Boisjoli Manito Ahbee: Courtesy of Manito Ahbee: A festival of all Page 19 Page 45 Nations Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers: The Forks Market: Travel Manitoba R. Fennessy Alloway Reception Centre at Page 69 FortWhyte Alive: John Pura Downtown Winnipeg: Page 20 Dan Harper Photography MTYP’s production of Holy Cow: Page 46 L. Gniwesch Prairie Dog Central Railway: Page 70 Thunder Rapids Fun Park: The Vintage Locomotive Society Inc Canada’s National Ukrainian Thunder Rapids Fun Park FestivalDauphin: Travel Manitoba

62 Border Regulations Tourist Information St. Andrews Airport Free travel literature and personalized 204.336.3250 Passports travel counselling and information are All passengers including Canadian and U.S. available by calling, clicking or visiting: Buses – Local citizens are required to present documents that comply with the Western Hemisphere In Winnipeg Winnipeg Transit Travel Initiative – most commonly a passport, a passport card, a trusted traveler Destination Winnipeg Inc. 421 Osborne Street card such as NEXUS, SENTRI or FAST or an Visitor Information Centre, Main Floor Call 311 for route, schedule and fare enhanced driver’s license when travelling 259 Portage Avenue (Portage and Garry) information between Canada and the United States by 204.943.1970 air, land or sea. [email protected] www.winnipegtransit.com Destination Winnipeg would advise www.destinationwinnipeg.ca Downtown Spirit that all travelers confi rm offi cial travel Off ers free and easy travel in the requirements prior to departure. Airport Information Centre downtown area and travels in a circular Please visit the U.S. Department of State (a partnership of Destination Winnipeg route between The Forks, Portage Avenue website at www.travel.state.gov or and Winnipeg Airports Authority) and Memorial Boulevard and back to www.cbsa.gc.ca for more information. The Forks. See enclosed map or call Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson 311 for service hours and for complete International Airport, Main level Pets information. Please have a vaccination certifi cate with 204.982.7543 full information on the animal. Buses – Regional Explore Manitoba Centre, The Forks Firearms Beaver Many fi rearms are not permitted. All 204.927.7838 339 Archibald Street fi rearms MUST be declared. Contact Outside Winnipeg 204.989.7007 / 1.800.432.5072 the Canadian Firearms Centre at (Toll free in North America) 1.800.731.4000 or www.cfc-cafc.gc.ca www.beaverbus.com for more information. Destination Winnipeg Greyhound Returning to U.S. 1.800.665.0204 2015 Wellington Avenue $200 worth of goods duty-free, after a stay 204.949.7777 of less than 48 hours. Duty free products: Travel Manitoba 150 ml (5 fl . oz) of alcohol, 50 cigarettes 1.800.665.0040 www.greyhound.ca and 10 cigars. $800 worth of goods duty- free, after a stay of more than 48 hours. Other Areas of Manitoba Train Duty free products: 1 litre (33.8 fl . oz.) of alcohol, 200 cigarettes, and 100 cigars. Canada / United States border VIA Rail Highway #75 123 Main Street Open daily, mid-May to Labour Day. 1.888.842.7245 Currency Open Thursday to Monday, September U.S. currency is accepted at most to mid-May. Winnipeg establishments. However, it is Taxis / Car Rentals recommended that you exchange your Canada / United States border Pickup at most hotels, airport, bus depot currency at a bank / fi nancial institution, or Highway #10 and VIA Station. Automobile rental use a banking machine. (International Peace Gardens) information listed in the Yellow Pages. Visitors with currency from outside Canada Open daily, mid-May to Labour Day. Limousines and the United States should call a local Luxury transportation available from Manitoba / Ontario Boundary banking centre for information on foreign airport to downtown hotels and Highway #1 currency exchange. businesses. Open daily, mid-May through Labour Day. Open Tuesday through Saturday, Labour Driving Information Liquor Laws Day to Thanksgiving weekend. Spirits, wine and beer are available at The use of seat belts, child restraints and Manitoba Liquor Control Commission Manitoba / Saskatchewan motorcycle helmets is compulsory within outlets; wine is also available at private Boundary Highways #16 & #83 the Province of Manitoba. Right turns are wine stores; domestic beer also from hotel Open daily, mid-May to Labour Day. allowed on red lights, unless otherwise vendors. Open liquor must be stored in posted; left on red from one way to one the trunk. Legal age for consumption of Manitoba / Saskatchewan way is allowed unless otherwise posted. alcohol is 18 years. These laws are strictly Boundary Highway #1 Open daily, mid-May through Labour Day. Watch for no-parking signs and no-turn enforced. “Please drink responsibly. Don’t signs 7h-9h (7:00 am - 9:00 am), 15h30- drink and drive.” Safety 17h30 (3:30 pm - 5:30 pm). Smoking Criminal occurrences may take place For the best navigation, use the route Smoking is prohibited in all public places in Canadian cities, but are generally numbers and remember that avenues including restaurants, bars, malls and concentrated in areas that are not of tourist typically run east/ west and streets are sporting events. interest. Travellers, however, should remain north / south; numbers begin at the rivers. vigilant and alert to their surroundings. It is recommended that all items of value be Please Note: The City of Winnipeg utilizes Motor Vehicle Insurance removed from the car and safely stored photo radar technology in an eff ort to Contact your insurance company. out of sight. For emergencies only, call 911. reduce the incidences of red light running For non-emergency police services, call and speeding. Signage is posted in all areas Taxes 204.986.6222. where camera enforcement is used. Goods and services purchased in Manitoba are subject to a 7% Provincial Sales Tax Transportation (PST) and 5% Goods and Services Tax (GST). We make every eff ort to ensure the Airports accuracy of this Guide. However, errors, cancellations and changes can occur. Winnipeg James Armstrong We apologize for any inconvenience. Richardson International Airport 2000 Wellington Avenue 204.987.9402 www.waa.ca

63 64 Manitobai b RetrouvaillesR ill Homecoming 2010 Manitoba 2010 Manitoba Homecoming 2010 is a year long Retrouvailles Manitoba 2010 est une endeavor that’s being celebrated around année de célébrations qui se dérouleront the entire province. We’re bringing former d’un bout à l’autre de la province. Les and current Manitobans, visitors, family anciens Manitobains et Manitobains and friends together for events, festivals, actuels, les visiteurs, les familles et les reunions and an all around great party. amis se rassembleront pour prendre part We’ve partnered with existing events to give aux activités, aux festivals, aux réunions it a Homecoming twist and we’ve created et surtout, à une grande fête! Nous avons our own signature events that will showcase forgé des partenariats avec des événements Manitoba’s rich culture and traditions. existants afi n de rehausser l’aspect des retrouvailles et nous avons créé nos propres 2010 is a year of reconnection and événements qui souligneront la richesse de rediscovery in Manitoba. For those who la culture et des traditions du Manitoba. long for the familiarity of home, 2010 is a year to meet old friends, kick back in the old L’année 2010 permettra de renouer des liens neighbourhood and take in a social. et de redécouvrir le Manitoba. Pour ceux qui aspirent à la familiarité du bercail, cette For those who have been away a long while, année sera l’occasion de rencontrer d’anciens 2010 is a year to meet the new Manitoba amis, de visiter le vieux quartier et d’assister à – where communities thrive, nature is une soirée sociale. spectacular, culture is sophisticated, people are welcoming and hospitality is sincere. Pour ceux qui ont été absents pendant une longue période, l’année 2010 leur donnera Manitoba Homecoming has rolled out the la chance de faire connaissance avec le welcome mat and we’re calling everyone to nouveau Manitoba où les communautés sont come home to see what we’ve done with en plein essor, la nature est spectaculaire, the place! la culture est raffi née et les gens sont Check out our website at accueillants et sincères. www.manitobahomecoming2010.com Retrouvailles Manitoba a déroulé le tapis for more information. et nous invitons tout le monde à revenir au bercail en 2010! Pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.retrouvaillesmanitoba2010.com.

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6565 Manitoba Manitoba Junior Hockey League Homecoming 2010 All Star Weekend -Winkler Signature Events January 22-23 Winkler is hosting the Junior Hockey All Star Activités de weekend where the best players come to play. Retrouvailles Fin de semaine des étoiles de Manitoba 2010 la Ligue de hockey junior du Manitoba – Winkler Saison Voyageur - Winnipeg Les 22 et 23 janvier Winkler sera l’hôte de la Fin de semaine January 1 - February 28 des étoiles de la Ligue de hockey junior du Saison Voyageur starts the Manitoba Manitoba pendant laquelle les meilleurs Homecoming year by celebrating winter joueurs seront mis en vedette. events and activities throughout January and February. Walk or skate along the Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail, enjoy the Arctic RBC Cup - Dauphin Glacier Winter Park, be a spectator as the dog May 1- 9 sled races return to Winnipeg, enjoy a great meal at one of our world class restaurants Canada’s National Junior A Championship is and of course, join in the festivities of the being held in Dauphin. Enjoy some fast- Festival du Voyageur. Saison Voyageur paced hockey and support Canada’s up and also celebrates our community spirit by coming players. integrating many cultural events. Coupe RBC – Dauphin Saison Voyageur - Winnipeg Du 1er au 9 mai Du 1er janvier au 28 février Un championnat national de hockey junior La Saison Voyageur marquera le début des A aura lieu à Dauphin. Venez voir du hockey retrouvailles avec une panoplie d’activités rapide et appuyer les joueurs canadiens de et d’événements qui auront lieu en janvier demain! et février. Marchez ou patinez sur le Sentier d’hiver Assiniboine Credit Union, amusez- vous au Arctic Glacier Winter Park, assistez Celebrate Manitoba aux courses de traîneaux à chiens qui seront Day - Neepawa de retour à Winnipeg, dégustez un excellent Wednesday, May 12 repas à l’un de nos restaurants de renommée mondiale et naturellement, participez aux Neepawa is hosting Manitoba’s offi cial 140th festivités du Festival du Voyageur! Par ailleurs, birthday celebration. Neepawa is hosting la Saison Voyageur rend hommage à notre Manitoba’s offi cial 140th birthday celebration esprit communautaire dans une kyrielle folowed by three days of festivities d’activités culturelles. cullminating with an open air concert on Saturday, May 15th.

Célébrez la fête du Manitoba – Neepawa Le mercredi 12 mai Neepawa sera l’hôte du 140e anniversaire offi ciel du Manitoba. Une grande célébration aura lieu le jour même de la fête du Manitoba, suivie de trois jours de festivités à l’occasion desquels sera off ert un grand spectacle en plein air le samedi 15 mai.

Left: Whiteshell Provincial Parkl Top right: WHL Hockey

6666 2010 MasterCard Major Concert Event at Memorial Cup - Brandon The Forks - Winnipeg May 14 - 23 July 3 Brandon is hosting this week-long prestigious A major concert is being held at The Forks hockey championship. Take in a game and in support of the Canadian Museum for cheer on the teams! Human Rights. Keep checking our website for information as it becomes available. You won’t want to miss this one! Coupe Memorial MasterCard 2010 – Brandon Grand concert à Du 14 au 23 mai La Fourche – Winnipeg Brandon sera l’hôte de ce prestigieux Le 3 juillet championnat de hockey qui s’étendra sur une Un grand concert aura lieu à La Fourche. Pour semaine. Venez encourager les équipes! plus de précisions, visitez notre site Web. Vous ne voudrez pas manquer cet événement! World’s Largest Social - Province Wide Thompson Homecoming Saturday, May 15 Event - Thompson Manitoba knows how to party and we’re July 30 - August 2 going to show the world that we mean business! On May 15, Manitoba Homecoming Visit the north and see Thompson in the is holding traditional socials at various venues summertime for their long weekend throughout the province in hopes of breaking Homecoming festivities. There will be a world’s record for the world’s largest social. reunions, kid’s activities and evening Check out our website for the list of a social entertainment featuring Manitoba bands near you and don’t miss out on the fun. and performers.

La plus grande soirée sociale du Retrouvailles – Thompson monde – à l’échelle provinciale Du 30 juillet au 2 août Le samedi 15 mai Visitez le nord du Manitoba et faites une Les Manitobains savent fêter et nous avons halte à Thompson pendant la longue fi n l’intention de le montrer au monde entier! Le de semaine afi n de participer aux festivités 15 mai 2010, Retrouvailles Manitoba off rira entourant les retrouvailles. Il y aura des des soirées sociales à diff érents endroits de rencontres, des activités pour les enfants et la province dans l’espoir de briser le record des spectacles en soirée mettant en vedette mondial de la plus grande soirée sociale au des artistes manitobains. monde. Visitez notre site Web pour connaître l’emplacement de la soirée sociale le plus près de vous. À ne pas manquer!

6767 Urban Pow Wow at The Forks – Winnipeg August 3 A meeting place for thousands of years, The Forks will be the site of an Urban Pow Wow in August.

Pow-wow urbain à La Fourche – Winnipeg Le 3 août Lieu de rencontre depuis des milliers d’années, La Fourche deviendra le site du théâtre du pow-wow urbain au mois d’août.

Lights on Broadway – Winnipeg August weekends Watch for Manitoba Homecoming sponsored summer programming in downtown Winnipeg every weekend in August.

Lights on Broadway – Winnipeg Les fi ns de semaine, de la mi-août à la mi-septembre Toutes les fi ns de semaine d’août, surveillez la programmation estivale commanditée par Retrouvailles Manitoba 2010 dans le centre- ville de Winnipeg.

Clear Lake Homecoming Weekend – Clear Lake August 20-21 Celebrate Homecoming in Riding Mountain National Park.

Fin de semaine de retrouvailles – Clear Lake Les 20 et 21 août Participez aux retrouvailles dans le parc national du Mont-Riding.

Left: Manito Ahbee Right: Downtown Winnipeg

6868 Explore Manitoba Your Explorez le Manitoba Way with Manitoba à votre façon grâce Homecoming 2010 aux laissez-passer de Attraction Passes Retrouvailles Manitoba

Whether you’re a sports fanatic, museum 2010 junkie, outdoor adventurer or golf addict, Que vous soyez amateur de sports, de Manitoba Homecoming 2010 Attraction musées, d’aventures en plein air ou de golf, Passes can help you experience Manitoba les laissez-passer de Retrouvailles Manitoba your way. There are over 45 unique passes 2010 vous permettront de découvrir le to choose from and cover all regions of Manitoba à votre façon. Vous pouvez choisir Manitoba. parmi plus de 45 laissez-passer qui vous These unique packages feature events, donnent accès à des attractions partout entertainment centres, art galleries, fl oral dans la province. Ces forfaits comprennent gardens, golf courses, museums, parks des événements, des centres de loisirs, des and tours and will bring you to some of galeries d’art, des jardins botaniques, des Manitoba’s more impressive destinations. terrains de golf, des musées, des parcs et des visites guidées et vous transporteront Check out our website at vers les destinations manitobaines les plus www.manitobahomecoming2010.com impressionnantes. for a complete listing and opportunity to Pour obtenir la liste complète des purchase your attraction passes online. laissez-passer ou pour passer votre commande en ligne, visitez le site www.retrouvaillesmanitoba2010.com YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN YET!

6969 Top Manitoba Festivals Winnipeg International and Events 2010 Children’s Festival June 10-13, 2010 Festival du Voyageur Features 30 shows daily of music, dance, February 12-21, 2010 puppetry and hands-on activities with local, national and international artists. Western Canada’s largest winter festival celebrates Canada’s fur trading era and Location: Winnipeg combines the joie de vivre of the voyageurs 204.958.4730 with more than 300 music performances, magnifi cent snow sculptures, historical www.kidsfest.ca interpretation of the early 19th century at Fort Gibraltar, live entertainment, traditional dishes, arts and crafts, the Voyageur Red River Exhibition International Sled Dog Classic, a governor’s ball. June 18-27, 2010 Location: Winnipeg North America’s #1 midway, stage acts, 204.237.7692 children’s entertainers, exhibits, youth talent shows, opening day fi reworks. www.festivalvoyageur.mb.ca Location: Winnipeg 204.888.6990 Northern Manitoba Trapper’s Festival www.redriverex.com February 17-21, 2010 Oldest winter festival, originating in Jazz Winnipeg Festival 1916, celebrates the cultural heritage June 25 - July 4, 2010 of the northern pioneer with skills and entertainment; World Championship Dog Features the hottest jazz and blues Race; King Trapper events include canoe performers from around the world at packing, trap setting, moose calling, bannock both free and ticketed events. baking and more; arts and crafts show, beard Location: Winnipeg growing contest, children’s games, evening 204.989.4656 rendezvous. Location: The Pas www.jazzwinnipeg.com 204.623.2912 www.trappersfestival.com Dauphin Countryfest July 1-4, 2010 Incredible country music from some of the hottest stars in the business. Top: Canada’s National Ukrainian Festival Dauphin Location: Dauphin 1.800.361.7300 www.countryfest.ca

7070 Winnipeg Folk Festival Islendingadagurinn July 7-11, 2010 (Icelandic Festival of Manitoba) Internationally acclaimed celebration of July 30 - Aug 2, 2010 people and music featuring over 60 acts, six Second oldest ethnic gathering in Canada daytime stages, evening main stage, family held in the largest Icelandic community area, artisan tent and food court. outside Iceland. Includes midway, beach Birds Hill Provincial Park volleyball, Amma’s kitchen, folk festival, fi ne art show, sandcastle building contest, 204.231.0096 New Iceland historic and cultural exhibits, www.winnipegfolkfestival.ca traditional program, parade. Location: Gimli Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival 204.642.7417 July 14-25, 2010 www.icelandicfestival.com North America’s second largest Fringe Festival features more than 100 theatre groups over Folklorama - Canada’s 11 full days. Outdoor stage and Kids Fringe Cultural Celebration feature street performers, buskers and bands from noon to midnight. August 1-14, 2010 Location: Winnipeg Represents cultures from around the world in a two-week extravaganza full of ethnic 204.943.7464 richness and traditions in culture, food and www.winnipegfringe.com art. With over 40 pavilions, this multicultural event is held throughout the city. Location: Winnipeg Manitoba Stampede and Exhibition 204.982.6210 or toll-free 1.800.665.0234 www.folklorama.ca July 22-25, 2010 One of Canada’s largest professional rodeos, it off ers four days of top level competition. Morden Corn & Apple Festival Location: Morris August 27 - 29, 2010 204.746.2552 It’s fun and free! Free admission, free shuttle bus, free live stage entertainment, free hot www.manitobastampede.ca buttered corn-on-the cob, free apple cider and free bus tours. Also a midway, crafts, Canada’s National dances and gospel stage on Sunday. Ukrainian Festival Location: Morden July 30 - Aug 1, 2010 204.822.5630 In this special celebration of Ukraine’s www.mordenmb.com independence, experience the fl avour of old traditions and culture through song, dance, costume and delectable Ukrainian cuisine. Manito Ahbee, Location: Dauphin “A Festival for All Nations” 204.622.4600 November 3-7, 2010 www.cnuf.ca The largest showcase of music and traditional Aboriginal culture in Canada. Events include International Competition Pow Wow, Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards, Indigenous Marketplace & Trade Show, Music Festival, Métis Festival. Location: Winnipeg 204.956.1849 www.manitoahbee.com

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Use these handy maps to help guide you around the city as you explore the variety of arts, culture, history, entertainment, shopping and neighbourhoods Winnipeg has to offer. You’ll fi nd Winnipeg a welcoming city, ready to roll out the red carpet to make your stay DISTRICTS here a memorable one. Corydon Avenue River Heights Civic / Educational / Offi ce Buildings Downtown St. James Restaurants & Exchange District St. Vital Shopping Neighbourhoods The Forks Tuxedo Malls / Dept. Stores / Fort Garry West End / Wolseley Marketplaces

Old St. Boniface / Transcona Venues / Theatres Winnipeg’s French Quarter Just Outside Parks (outside city limits) North End Parking Terminals Osborne Village / Under Osborne South Hotels Construction Museums / Historic Structures