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Special Events
JANUARY
• BIG FUN FESTIVAL, WINNIPEG
• WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
FEBRUARY
• FESTIVAL DU VOYAGEUR, WINNIPEG
• NORTHERN MANITOBA TRAPPERS’
FESTIVAL, THE PAS
MARCH
• FESTIVAL OF FOOLS, WINNIPEG
• HUDSON BAY QUEST, CHURCHILL
MAY
• INDIGENOUS MUSIC AWARDS, WINNIPEG
• MANITO AHBEE FESTIVAL, WINNIPEG
• WINNIPEG COMEDY FESTIVAL
MAY – JUNE
• PRIDE WINNIPEG FESTIVAL SPIRIT PANEL AND THEMATIC WALL, INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES • CANADIAN MUSEUM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
JUNE
th
• DAUPHIN’S COUNTRYFEST where local motels appeal to family-oriented on July 15, 1920, on the 50 anniversary
• MANITOBA SUMMER FAIR, BRANDON explorers (www.gov.mb.ca/sd/parks/index. of Manitoba’s entry into Confederation
• TD WINNIPEG INTERNATIONAL JAZZ html). Whiteshell Provincial Park (www. (www.gov.mb.ca/chc/hrb/prov/p040.html).
FESTIVAL whiteshell.mb.ca) is a handy hour’s drive Architectural historian, Dr. Frank Albo,
JULY east of Winnipeg and, further afi eld, leads small groups on “Hermetic Code”
• MANITOBA STAMPEDE & EXHIBITION, wilderness wanderers can take to lakes and tours of the building (www.frankalbo.com/
MORRIS rivers in canoes, kayaks, or fi shing boats. tours). In May, the Manito Ahbee Festival
• WINNIPEG FOLK FESTIVAL, Cosy resort communities like Grand Beach, in Winnipeg showcases Indigenous culture
BIRDS HILL PROVINCIAL PARK
Gimli, Winnipeg Beach, Victoria Beach, and spectacular powwow performances
• WINNIPEG FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL Sandy Hook, Matlock, and many more lay (www.manitoahbee.com). February’s French
• WINNIPEG SOCA REGGAE MUSIC FESTIVAL
claim to wide, sandy beaches. Gimli is a Festival du Voyageur, centred in St. Boniface,
AUGUST favourite weekend hangout with its focuses on Franco-Manitoban history and
• CANADA’S NATIONAL UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL, charming marina and beach-town atmo- culture (www.heho.ca/en).
DAUPHIN
sphere (www.gimli.ca). In Spruce Woods
• FOLKLORAMA, WINNIPEG
Provincial Park, a day tripper’s hiking trail
• ICELANDIC FESTIVAL, GIMLI Quick Fact
covers forests, hills, a genuine desert, and
• MANITOBA ELECTRONIC MUSIC
the eerie, deepwater blue Devil’s Punch THE ST. BONIFACE MUSEUM, ORIGINALLY
EXHIBITION, WINNIPEG BUILT AS A GREY NUNS’ CONVENT, IS
Bowl (www.travelmanitoba.com/listings/
SEPTEMBER WINNIPEG’S OLDEST BUILDING AND NORTH
spruce-woods-provincial-park/6732).
• CULTURE DAYS, WINNIPEG AMERICA’S LARGEST OAK LOG STRUCTURE.
• FEMFEST, WINNIPEG
HERITAGE AND CULTURE
• MANYFEST, WINNIPEG
Winnipeg’s historic Exchange District is MUST SEE, MUST DO
• NUIT BLANCHE, WINNIPEG
home to the Design Quarter, a casual Lower Fort Garry, the national historic site
OCTOBER
• CENTRAL CANADA COMIC CON, WINNIPEG grouping of eclectic, original design shops just south of the City of Selkirk, shelters an
ranging from fashion to fi ne dining and historic fur-trading fort. It is also the site
www.travelmanitoba.com/ fi ne art. The brochure for it can be found at where Treaty 1, the fi rst treaty between
things-to-do/art-arts/festivals-events the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Outside the city, colonial explorers and Indigenous Peoples,
historic gems include Brandon’s Common- was signed, and where the North-West
Manitoba Theatre Centre, Tom Hendry wealth Air Training Plan Museum and its Mounted Police—the precursor to
Warehouse Theatre (www.royalmtc.ca ) and stories of World War II air fi ghter training Canada’s Mounties—were fi rst trained
Prairie Theatre Exchange (www.pte.mb.ca ). (www.airmuseum.ca); Thompson’s Heritage (www.parkscanada.gc.ca/fortgarry).
Year-round, Thermëa by Nordik Spa in the North Museum’s tales of the Indigenous
city’s south end (www.thermea.ca ) and Ten Peoples of the area (www.heritagenorth In summer, hardy adventurers can kayak
Spa at the Hotel Fort Garry (www.tenspa.ca ), museum.ca); and, in far western Manitoba, with more than 57,000 white beluga
provide sybaritic pleasures. the Inglis Grain Elevators National Historic whales that calve and raise their babies
Site (www.ingliselevators.com) is the best near the mouth of the Churchill River
THE GREAT OUTDOORS remaining example of an “elevator row” in (www.everythingchurchill.com).
Provincial parks provide groomed hiking Canada. Winnipeg’s Manitoba Legislative
trails and off er summer campsite bookings Building, the Tyndall limestone-clad beaux The Canadian Museum for Human Rights,
by computer, and most are near small towns arts classical seat of government, opened adjacent to The Forks National Historic Site
