September 2024

Big adventures await in Manitoba

Dear Canada friend,

In Manitoba, a summer full of fabulous experiences is slowly coming to an end, leaving us with a few new product ideas for travel planning in 2025. Great wilderness adventures await in the North of the province, and they're now easy to book! In contrast, sightseeing by boat in Winnipeg is a more leisurely pleasure. And Manitoba's museums offer deep insights into Canada's Indigenous history.

From November 12 – 14, visitors to this year's Canada Showcase can get first-hand news from Manitoba in Paris. Together with our colleagues from Tourism Winnipeg, we are looking forward to many great conversations!

Enjoy reading!

New with Jonview:
Gangler's Sub-Arctic

Call of adventure! In northern Manitoba, just 100 kilometres south of the Nunavut border, lies Gangler’s North Seal River Lodge. This unique fly-in wilderness lodge was once a remote fishing lodge and turned into an eco-adventure paradise. Take the opportunity to explore the unique wilderness of the North. Programs include RTV tours, fatbike tours, hikes along sand eskers, kayaking, canoeing, wildlife viewing, fishing adventures or flightseeing by float plane over the untouched lakes in Manitoba’s north. Not to forget the amazing Northern Lights! Guest stay in cozy cabins, and meals are served in the main lodge. Gangler's Sub-Arctic itineraries offer return air fare from Winnipeg and include transfers, accommodation, meals, booked outdoor activity and equipment. Gangler’s also offers combination programs with polar bear and beluga whale viewing in Churchill.

New: Gangler’s Sub-Arctic is now bookable with Jonview.


Contact:
Gangler’s Sub-Arctic
Ken Gangler
ken@ganglers.com

Sightseeing by boat:
Winnipeg Waterways Tours & Transit

New since summer 2024, visitors to Winnipeg can now discover the city’s history, architecture and natural beauty on a scenic river boat tour offered by Winnipeg Waterways Tours & Transit. During the tours on the Red River and Assiniboine River, expert guides reveal Winnipeg’s most iconic landmarks as the Manitoba Legislative Building, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Esplanade Riel Bridge, the Cathedrale of Saint-Boniface, The Forks and the Historic Exchange District. In the summer months, the 35-minute public tours are offered all day long and depart at The Forks Market. Private bookings for the entire boat for up to 12 people are possible.

Winnpeg Waterways Tours & Transit also offers a water bus service, a river based public transit for a scenic and quick way to move between the neighborhoods in Winnipeg’s city centre. Water buses run approximately every 15 minutes.


Contact:
Winnipeg Waterways Tours & Transit
Will Belford
info@winnipegwaterways.ca

Qaumajuq:
Inuit Art in the Winnipeg Art Gallery

The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is Canada's oldest public art gallery – it opened back in 1912. Its permanent collection includes 24,000 exhibits by Canadian, Indigenous Canadian and international artists, including the world's largest public collection of contemporary and traditional Inuit art. The more than 14,000 exhibits include 7,500 sculptures, 4,000 prints, 1,900 drawings and hundreds of other artifacts, ceramics and textiles. 5,000 of these alone are on display in a huge, two-storey visible vault. Through many narrated stories and video feeds, as well as interactive elements, the exhibits are placed in a cultural and historical context.


Contact:
Winnipeg Art Gallery – Qaumajuq
Doren Roberts
events@wag.ca

A place against forgetting:
National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada

Visitors who want to learn about Indigenous culture and history in Canada while travelling to Manitoba should pay a visit to the National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada. "Residential schools" was the name given to the up to 3,000 boarding school-like institutions across Canada in which, as a consequence of colonial policy, exclusively Indigenous students – i.e. First Nations, Inuit and Métis – were forcibly housed and educated from the second half of the 19th century until 1996.

The National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada is housed in the premises of the former Portage la Prairie Indian Residential School. This stands in Keeshkeemaquah on Long Plain First Nation land near the city of Portage La Prairie. For 60 years – from 1915 to 1975 – classes were taught here. In 2001 the desire arose on the part of the Long Plain First Nation to build a museum at the site. Finally, in 2020, the National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada was opened in collaboration with Parks Canada as a National Historic Site.

The museum is not only a place for historical reappraisal of the topic, but above all also serves as a social reappraisal of the trauma suffered. It is a place against forgetting. Through its exhibition of many images, artifacts and stories about a once government-fostered and church-run school system that was imposed on the Indigenous population, the museum plays an important role in educating people about the Residential Schools era. Visitors will gain a better understanding of the power and violence that shaped and forever changed generations of Indigenous people. At the same time, it memorializes the victims, helping many survivors on their path to healing.

With various exhibits and displays, the museum also pays a tribute to the history of the Indigenous people, their living culture, stories and languages. It is a place where the history and cultures of all peoples meet, fulfilling an important purpose in society.


Contact:
National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada
Lorraine Daniels
executivedirector@nirsm.ca

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