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Regions in Manitoba : Central Plains Manitoba, Eastman, Interlake, Northern Manitoba, Parkland, Pembina Valley, Westman, Winnipeg Capital Region

Majestic rivers. Arctic coastline. Lakes, forests and desert dunes. An escarpment rises up in the West and miles and miles of trails beckon everywhere.

Capital City of Manitoba: Winnipeg


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Camping & Campgrounds

 Manitoba Association of Campgrounds & Parks (MACAP)
Represent Canada's Province of Manitoba's family operated campgrounds. Their parks provide campers and RVers with unique camping experiences in a family environment. All of their parks offer overnight and seasonal camping and many accept reservations year round.
Camping, Campgrounds, RV Parks, Trailers Parks
 Camp Canada - Camping / Campgrounds
Wilderness campsites | Full facility campgrounds for RVs | Quiet scenic sites | Trailerparks with all amenities for families | Camping resorts | RV parks

Car Rental Manitoba

 Alamo - Luxury Discount Auto Rental Company
 Avis
 Budget Rent A Car
 Hertz

Lodgings Manitoba.

Rental Homes / Manitoba Vacation rentals/ Apartments

 Manitoba Lodges & Resorts
Manitoba's family resorts, full service lodges, and vacation cottage-resorts, offer a great selection and variety of vacation options for your family to enjoy.
 VacationsFRBO.com - Vacation rentals for rent by owner
Rental homes Pelican Lake.

Hostels

 Hostelbookers.com - Great Hostels, Free booking, Fast & Easy to use
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability.
 Backpackers Hostels Canada - backpacker community in Canada
 YMCA -YWCA - Canadian Youth Hostels

Hotels in Manitoba

 Expedia 
 Hotels.com
 Bookings UK - Hotels in Canada - an easy way to select and book hotel rooms
Centrally located hotels ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels. Bookings is a dedicated hotel and accommodation reservation website.

More hotels? See the page Hotels

National Parks / Regional Parks

 Riding Mountain National Park - see Parks Canada
Situated amidst a sea of agricultural land, Riding Mountain rises dramatically from the prairie landscape. Forming part of the Manitoba Escarpment, this "island" reserve protects a wide variety of wildlife and vegetation areas. The park has numerous hiking trails, and Agassiz Tower overlooks a panoramic view of prairies stretching out to the north. Wasagaming, the park's townsite, offers a full range of visitor services including accommodation, restaurants and shopping.
 Manitoba's Parks
 Oak Hammock Marsh
Oak Hammock Marsh is a 36-square km Wildlife Management Area (WMA) that is one of North America's birding hotspots. It features a restored prairie marsh, aspen-oak bluff, waterfowl lure crops, artesian springs, 30 kilometers of trails, and some of Manitoba's last remaining patches of tall-grass prairie - an endangered habitat. Each season at the marsh offers unique natural beauty and wildlife – viewing opportunities.

Tour Operators / Travel Agents

  OneTravel.com Homepage 
The OneTravel Family Of Companies : OneTravel, 11thHour, Discount Hotels, CheapSeats.com




 Heartland Travel & Tours
Incoming services in Winnipeg and throughout Manitoba and Western Canada. The services include arranging accommodation, transportation, sporting and recreational activities, special events such as theme evenings with entertainment, guided sightseeing tours and foreign language speaking guides.
 Manitoba Country Vacations
Dedicated to providing you with a quality, rural vacation experience in Manitoba, at the heart of Canada and North America.
 Manitoba Lodges & Resorts Vacations
If you're seeking exciting fishing and outdoor adventures or just some rest and relaxation, Manitoba has much to offer. The provincial parks offer pristine lakes and glorious sandy beaches for fishing, boating, golfing, windsurfing or canoeing as well as a wide variety of wildlife such as whitetail deer, moose, black bear, caribou and elk.
Clear, deep water lakes, wild running rivers and gentle bays shielded by wilderness all teeming with trophy walleye, pike, lake trout and bass and surrounded by sweeping clear-blue skies and pristine air.
 Nature 1st Tours, Churchill, Manitoba

Travel Guides Manitoba / Related books

Travel Guides Manitoba 

Books about Manitoba 

Trans Canadian Rail Guide 
Includes City Guides to Halifax, Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vanvouver.

Transportation / How do I get to Manitoba

 Winnipeg Airport - see Winnipeg Airports Authority Inc.'s web site
 Southport Airport [ Portage La Prairie ] - see City of Portage

 NAV Canada
Flight Operations [ Aviation Weather Web Site, Register to File a Flight Plan Over the Internet [PDF], NOTAM, Aeronautical Information Products, Operations Report, ANS Programs, Local Area Weather Manuals and more ]

 OneTravel.com Homepage  - Flight tickets Manitoba
The OneTravel Family Of Companies : OneTravel, 11thHour, Discount Hotels, CheapSeats.com

 Calmair
 Air Canada
 Tango
 Air North Airlines

 Greyhound - coach travel in Canada

 Viarail - Canadian Rail - a.o. Route Planner

 Maps of Manitoba - Travel Manitoba Infokits - see highway maps

 Weather Office Canada


Links 

 Travel Insurance

 Travel Manitoba - Tourist Board

 Manitoba Government

 Tourism North Manitoba

 Winnipeg Government - City of Winnipeg  - Manitoba's Capital City
 Winnipeg Tourist Board - Destination Winnipeg

 Central Plains - the Land of Echos and Legends
Located in the south central part of the province, immediately west of the capital city of Winnipeg and consists of the City of Portage la Prairie, Town of Gladstone, Villages of MacGregor, Notre Dame de Lourdes, St. Claude and Treherne, and the Rural Municipalities of Cartier, Glenella, Grey, Lakeview, MacDonald, North Norfolk, Portage la Prairie [ with Southport Airport ], South Norfolk, Victoria and Westbourne.
 Eastman
 Interlake
 Northern
 Parkland
 Pembina Valley
 Westman
 Winnipeg Capital Region - see Manitoba's Capital Region
The Winnipeg Capital Region is located in the southeast part of the province located along the Assiniboine and Red Rivers with the northern part of the region bounded by the south basin of Lake Winnipeg. It makes up approximately 1.4% of the province's land base. The 1996 population of the region was 706,000. The region is made up of the City of Winnipeg (the province's capital and largest city), the City of Selkirk, Town of Stonewall and the Rural Municipalities of Cartier, East St. Paul, Headingley, Macdonald, Ritchot, Rockwood, Rosser, St. Andrews, St. Clements, St. Francois Xavier, Springfield, Tache and West St. Paul.

 Altona - Town of Altona
Located in the sunny Pembina Valley of Manitoba, positioned in the centre of Canada and only five minutes from the US border, Altona is the perfect location to develop your business or establish your home.
 Birtle - Town of Birtle - Birtle Beckons - The Beautiful Birdtail Valley
 Brandon - City of Brandon
 Cranberry Portage
 Churchill - Polar Bear Capitol of the World - Town of Churchill
Located on the western shore of Hudson Bay, at the mouth of the historic Churchill River, approximately 770 km south of the Arctic Circle.
Within a 25 km radius there are 4 distinct ecosystems and all of the diverse flora and fauna that goes with each. In one day you can travel from Northern Boreal Forest, through Taiga and Tundra, to Marine environments. In the spring (May-June) Churchill is a bird watchers paradise, with as many as 200 species migrating, staging and nesting. In summer (July-August) thousands of Beluga Whales frolic in the river estuary and wild flowers carpet the ground. In September the fall colors are spectacular. And, of course, October-November, when the Polar Bears begin to congregate, waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze. And .... see the Aurora Borealis.
 Dauphin
 Flin Flon
 Snow Lake  - Snowlake.com
The friendly little town of Snow Lake was brought to life and still run's off one thing and that one thing is mining. Prospectors discovered this beautiful place in the 1940's and officially made it a town in 1947. The town became a very quick success because of it's rich supply of resources.
 Steinbach - Steinbachonline.com - southeastern Manitoba
Steinbach, Manitoba was founded in 1874 by 18 Mennonite families of the Kleine Gemeinde, literally meaning "Small Fellowship". The Mennonite faith originated in 1525 as part of the European Reformation. From Holland, Mennonites immigrated to Prussia and from there to southern Russia where Molotschna (or Milk River) Colony was established in 1804.
 Stonewall - Town of Stonewall 
 Swan River
Swan River offers some spectacular scenery. The pronounced hills of the Porcupine Mountains to the north and the Duck Mountains to the south, contrast beautifully with the gently rolling agricultural plain of the prairies found in the R.M.
 The Pas
 Thompson

 Eastern Manitoba Tourism
The Eastern Manitoba Region, enveloping the lands east of the Red River, Lake Winnipeg and the City of Winnipeg, offers tourists many varied and diverse experiences. The vast and varied landscape ranges from productive, serene farmland to the rugged scapes of the Precambrian Shield to beautiful lakes and major historic river waterways. This variety presents endless opportunities in agri tourism, eco tourism, white water rafting, canoeing, fishing, hunting and sporting opportunities of all types
La Verendrye Trail, East Central, South East and Red River.

 Tourisme Riel - in the heart of French speaking Manitoba
St. Boniface, St. Vital and St. Norbert

Cuisine - Manitoba cooking

The Culinary Saga of New Iceland: Recipes from the Shores of Lake Winnipeg 
By Kristin Olafson-Jenkyns (Author)
From the Publisher : It was a great pleasure to put this book together as so many people had reviewed these recipes. Their comments were a lot of fun to read and really brought the recipes to life. The section on boats and the history of Icelandic settlements was also very informative. I urge anyone and everyone who has even a passing interest in Icelandic or New Icelandic culture to read this book.

Paperback: 240 pages; Publisher: Coastline Publishing (August 4, 2001); ISBN-13: 978-0968911907

 Canadian Bison Association - A taste of North America
A recipe collection featuring the many ways bison can be prepared and served, from hors d'oeuvres to soups and stews, to steaks, roasts, and ground meat.
It's called A Taste of North America: Bison...Nature's Best is Back. Filled with more than 50 recipes, it also includes cooking tips for bison meat, and is available in English and French.
 Recipe Source - Canadian Recipes
 American French Genealogical Society - French-Canadian Recipes

History of Manitoba

 Manitoba's History - Wikipedia
Manitoba was settled by members of the Ojibwa and Assiniboine tribes. The first European to reach present -day Manitoba was Thomas Button, who visited the Nelson River in 1612. Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de la Vérendrye visited the Red River Valley in the 1730s as part of opening the area for French exploration and exploitation...
 Hudson's Bay Company - see Hudson's Bay Company Archives
Founded in 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company's (HBC) chief interests for its first two centuries were the fur trade, exploration and settlement. After 1870, when its territory of Rupert's Land was incorporated into the Dominion of Canada, its interests became more varied.
  Winnipeg Album: Glimpses of The Way We Were  - by John David Hamilton, Bonnie Dickie
Winnipeg was Canada's first important city in the west and was the supply point for other prairie cities like Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and even far-off Vancouver. It exploded from a village of 2700 people in 1877 to a fully modern metropolis of 100,000 in just thirty years and by then had a university, newspapers, publishing firms, a major theatre, and a vibrant mass of immigrants who flooded in to open up the West. Growing Winnipeg was served with paddle-wheelers on the Red River, Red River ox carts, a Canadian -owned railway to St Paul, Minnesota, and finally the CPR linking Montreal with the west coast. A Winnipeg Album is a pictorial impression of Winnipeg's colourful, dramatic, and relatively brief history, compiled and with commentary by John David Hamilton and Bonnie Dickie. Over one hundred stunning black-and-white photographs record the early days of the city and trace some of the dramatic events that made Winnipeg 'Canada's Chicago'.
Paperback 130 pages (December 1, 1998); Publisher: Hounslow Press

 Heritage Canada Foundation - see heritage links
"...preserve and demonstrate and to encourage the preservation and demonstration of the nationally significant historic, architectural, natural and scenic heritage of Canada with a view to stimulating and promoting the interest of the people of Canada in that heritage."

Music, Art & Culture, Events, Entertainment

 Canada's National Ukrainian Festival - Bitaemo - City of Dauphin
Nestled against the picturesque northern slope of Riding Mountain National Park is Selo Ukraina, the home of Canada's National Ukrainian Festival. For three days, we suggest you leave the pressures of daily life behind, get your red dancing boots on and gather with people from around the world to experience and enjoy Ukrainian heritage. Indulge yourself in a feast for the senses. From the scent of freshly baked bread wafting through the air, to the sound of thundering hooves and boom of the Cossack cannon, to the rich swirl of color in the costumes of the vibrant dancers, there is surely something to entertain one and all.
 Festival du Voyageur, Winnipeg
This annual celebration highlights Canada's fur trade era. For 10 days in February, the joie de vivre of the voyageurs comes together to host wonderful shows, delicious traditional dishes and numerous exhibits. The events take place in Saint-Boniface, the historic French quarter of Winnipeg. Activities abound at Fort Gibraltar , a reconstruction of the original fort that was at the centre of fur trading and the main site of the festival. Marked by the liveliness and joie de vivre of the voyageurs, this unique event displays the beauty of winter through its numerous historical and family-oriented activities.
 Folklorama, Winnipeg
Folklorama is hailed as the largest and longest running multicultural festival of its kind in the world. Spanning two weeks each August, Folklorama showcases the food, song and dance of Winnipegs ethnic communities.

 Culture.ca - Canada's Cultural Gateway
Explore, find, share the creativity and diversity of Canadian culture on-line
The riches of Canada's museums, galleries, archives and libraries | Thousands of links, articles and testimonials related to Canada's culture and heritage | First-rate reference collections such as the Canadian Encyclopedia Online | News of cultural events happening across Canada |The National Library of Canada's on -line reference service.
 Canadian Encyclopedia

Web Portals / Search Engines / Manitoba Directories

 Journey Manitoba - accommodations, events, and recreational activities
 Manitoba Community Profiles 
Provides profiles of every community and region in Manitoba, with maps, demographics, education, history, and recreational facilities.
 Manitoba Marketplace 
Database of Manitoba communities, products, services, information, and business opportunities, including public tenders.
 myWinnipeg.com  - online community resource for Manitobans
 Pembina Valley Online
 Portage Online 
 Travel Manitoba - promoting travel and tourism for Manitoba
 Winnipages.ca - Winnipeg Information on Restaurants, Entertainment, Events, Classifieds and more!

 Yahoo - Manitoba directories

 Telephone Guide Canada
 Yellow Pages Canada / Canadian Yellow pages


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