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Manitoba Essentials

Explore Manitoba’s history and natural geography through its most significant landmarks. This list features the 18th-century stone bastions of Prince of Wales Fort and York Factory on the shores of Hudson Bay, alongside Lower Fort Garry, North America’s oldest intact stone fur trade post. Discover the immense scale of Lake Winnipeg, the world’s eleventh-largest freshwater lake, and the historic Winnipeg River voyageur route. The cultural landscape is represented by the Gimli Art Club, showcasing regional creativity in the heart of Canada’s Icelandic settlement area.

Manitoba Essentials — Mapa

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Lake Winnipeg

Lake Winnipeg is a very large, relatively shallow 24,514-square-kilometre lake in North America, in the province of Manitoba, Canada.

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Prince of Wales Fort National Historic Site

The Prince of Wales Fort is a historic bastion fort on Hudson Bay across the Churchill River from Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

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York Factory

York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company factory located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba,…

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Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site

Lower Fort Garry was built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company on the western bank of the Red River, 20 mi north of the original Fort Garry.

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Winnipeg River

The Winnipeg River is a Canadian river that flows roughly northwest from Lake of the Woods in the province of Ontario to Lake Winnipeg in…

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Gimili Art Club and Gallery

Located near the harbor, this gallery showcases works by local Interlake artists. It is closely associated with the Gimli Seawall murals, which depict the region’s Icelandic heritage, local wildlife, and maritime history.