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WINNIPEG Children’s Museum

⌂ 45 Forks Market Rd
# Daily ∑ childrens
k 6 miles (10 km) NW of city £ Cnr Main St & Broadway museum.com
@ Greyhound Bus Terminal, 2015 Wellington Ave
n Suite 810, One Lombard Place; www.tourism Located within The Forks
winnipeg.com complex, this popular museum
provides a series of enticing
Winnipeg is a cosmopolitan city located at the hands-on exhibits aimed at
geographic heart of Canada. Over half of Manitoba’s children from the ages of Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site The Manitoba 0 meters 400 N
19 miles (30 km)
population lives here, mostly in suburbs that reflect 3 to 11. Kids can get creative City Hall Museum
the city’s broad mix of cultures. Winnipeg’s position, in the Pop m’Art exhibit, or M C D E R M O T A V E N U E OLD MA R KE T AVE N UE 0 yards 400
BANNATYNE AVE
at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, experiment with water in the MARKET M AI N STREE T WAT E R F RO NT D R I V E
SQUARE
Splash Lab. In the Engine
made it an important trading center for First Nations N O T R E D A M E A V E N U E P R I N C E S S S T BANNATYNE AVE
people for around 6,000 years. From the 1600s, C U M B E R L A N D A V E N U E District and Forth
Exchange
Europeans settled here to trade fur. During the EXPLORING Market Square Winnipeg
1880s, grain became the principal industry of the WINNIPEG KENNEDY ST ED M O N TO N ST R EE T Grain Exchange RUE AUBERT
west, aided by a railroad network routed through Most of Winnipeg’s AVENUE E R U E S T J O S E P H RUE LA VERENDRYE
PORTAGE
Winnipeg. Today, this attractive city makes for an sights are within easy CARLTON STREET DOWNTOWN PIONEER AVE A V E N U E T A C H E RUE NORTE DAME
enjoyable and cultural stay. walking distance of the E L L I C E A V E N U E R e d R i v e r RUE DUMOULIN
downtown area. The
HARGRAVE STREET
Manitoba Museum P O R T A G E A V E N U E
the French living here. and Winnipeg Grain FORT PROVENCHER BOULEVARD
1 ' In 1844 the Grey Nuns built a Exchange lie east of G R A H A M A V E N U E M A I N S T R E E T Canadian Museum
St. Boniface convent that now houses the the Exchange District. for Human Rights R U E M A S S O N R U E A U L N E A U
St. Boniface Museum. Priests At the junction of the SMITH STREET Esplanade
n Riel Tourism, 219 built the Basilica of St. Boniface D O N A L D S T R E E T Riel Bridge St. Boniface
Provencher Blvd; www. Red and Assiniboine Winnipeg EDMONTON ST S T M A R Y A V E N U E STREET The Forks National AVE DE LA CATHEDRALE
Art Gallery
GARRY STREET
tourismeriel.com in 1818. Although the building rivers is The Forks, a HARGRAVE ST Historic Site St. Boniface
was destroyed by fire in 1968, family entertainment CARLTON ST Union Basilica
Canada’s second-largest its elegant white facade is center devoted to the YORK AVENUE Palm Station St. Boniface
French-speaking community one of the city’s best-loved city’s history. At the Lounge The Forks Children's Museum
Museum
outside of Quebec lives in the land marks. A video at the junction of Portage and MEMORIAL BLVD B R O A D W A Y Market RUE DESPINS
historic district of St. Boniface. Tourism Centre documents Main streets lie the Johnston
Terminal
This quiet suburb faces The the area's history, including city’s financial and O S B O R N E S T N O R T H Main Street
Forks across the Red River Métis leader Louis Riel, who shopping districts with A S S I N I B O I N E AV E N U E Bridge A V E N U E T A C H E BLVD DOLLARD
and was founded by priests in was buried here after his their banks and malls. Legislative Midtown
Bridge
Building
1818 to care for the Métis and execution in 1885 (p68). MAYFAIR AVENUE Norwood
Assiniboine Park
6 miles (10 km) Assiniboine River DONALD ST The Roost Bridge
Royal Canadian Mint
162 1 mile (1.6 km) 5 miles (8 km)
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