Manitoba

01 / MB

Canadian Museum for Human Rights

One of the most architecturally striking buildings in Canada and one of the most thought-provoking museums in North America — galleries covering the Holocaust, apartheid, Indigenous residential schools, and contemporary human rights arranged around an alabaster ramp designed to enact a literal ascent toward enlightenment.

02 / MB

Churchill Polar Bears

The polar bear capital of the world — bears gather on the tundra around Churchill each October while waiting for Hudson Bay ice to form. Tundra Buggy tours provide close-range viewing from elevated vehicles. In July and August, several thousand beluga whales gather in the Churchill River estuary and can be seen from shore, by kayak, or by snorkelling.

03 / MB

Assiniboine Park & Zoo

Winnipeg's largest park encompasses an English-style formal garden, a concert pavilion, a nature playground and the Assiniboine Park Zoo — home to the Journey to Churchill exhibit, a world-class polar bear habitat and Arctic species complex. The zoo's conservation focus and the polar bear viewing are the primary draws.

04 / MB

Riding Mountain National Park

An elevated plateau of boreal and mixed forest rising from the flat Manitoba prairie, with Clear Lake at its centre and a small resort community called Wasagaming on the shore. The park has excellent elk and black bear viewing, good cycling trails, and a particularly pleasant beach.

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The Forks, Winnipeg

The confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers has been a meeting place for 6,000 years and is now the most successful urban space in Winnipeg — a market, restaurants, river trail (skating in winter), and the remarkable setting for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The Red River Mutual Trail, when open, is the longest natural ice skating trail in the world at 9.2 kilometres.