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Winnipeg
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Whale-Watching
Seasmoke Whale-Watching
There are no other tours on earth quite like ours!
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Bed & Breakkfasts
Greenwoods inn
Green Woods Inn is a beautifully converted Victorian country home sitting in two acres of grounds surrounded by lakes, rivers and countryside in an area steeped in Ontario's history.
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312 Seaton
312 Seaton, is a detached Victorian home on a quiet tree lined street in downtown Toronto‚s historical "Cabbagetown".
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Accomodation on the Beach
Alert bay, BC
250. 974 5225
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A Good Knight B&B
Calgary, Alberta
Tel.
403.270 7628
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Manitoba
Destination profile
Manitoba, is one of Canada's three Prairie Provinces. The other two are Alberta and Saskatchewan. Manitoba lies midway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Winnipeg, Manitoba's capital and largest city, is the main transportation center linking eastern and western Canada.
History
The geographical area now named Manitoba was originally inhabited by Ojibwa, Cree, Dene, Sioux, and Assiniboine peoples, along with other tribes entering the area to trade. The Whiteshell region, with many petroforms, may have been a trading centre, or even a place of learning and sharing of knowledge. The first European to reach present-day Manitoba was Sir Thomas Button, who visited the Nelson River in 1612 and may have reached somewhere along the edge of the prairies. 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. An important French-Canadian population (Franco-Manitobains) still lives in Manitoba, especially in the Saint-Boniface district of Winnipeg.
There are two possible sources of the name "Manitoba". One is the Assiniboine words "Mini" and "tobow" meaning "Lake of the Prairie". The other more likely source is the Cree word "maniotwapow" meaing "the strait of the spirit or manitobau". This latter name is derived from the sound produced by pebbles on a beach on Manitoba Island in Lake Manitoba. This noise is linked to the superstition among the Assiniboine of the "manito" (or spirit) beating a drum to create the noise.
The territory was won by Britain in 1763 as part of the French and Indian War, and became part of Rupert's Land, the immense monopoly territory of the Hudson's Bay Company.
EXTERNAL LINKS
* Government of Manitoba
* The Manitoba Historical Society
* Architecture of Manitoba
* The TimeLinks Image Archive
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