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The Forks (French: La Fourche) is a historic site, meeting place, and green space in downtown Winnipeg located at the confluence of the Red River and the Assiniboine River. The Forks was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1974 due to its status as a cultural landscape that had borne witness to six thousand years of human activity ...
The Museums Act. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights ( CMHR; French: Musée canadien pour les droits de la personne) is a Canadian Crown corporation and national museum located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, adjacent to The Forks. The purpose of the museum is to "explore the subject of human rights with a special but not exclusive reference to Canada ...
View of Downtown Winnipeg. / 49.89556°N 97.13861°W / 49.89556; -97.13861. Downtown Winnipeg is an area of Winnipeg located near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. It is the oldest urban area in Winnipeg, and is home to the city's commercial core, city hall, the seat of Manitoba's provincial government, and a number of ...
Winnipeg ( / ˈwɪnɪpɛɡ / ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. As of 2021, Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it Canada's sixth ...
The Provencher Bridge ( French: Pont Provencher) is a set of paired bridges — a four-lane vehicular bridge and a suspended pedestrian bridge (called Esplanade Riel) [1] [2] — across the Red River in Winnipeg, Manitoba . The bridge links downtown Winnipeg and The Forks historic area with St. Boniface, a Winnipeg community across the Red River.
500+. Website. www .salisburyhouse .ca. Salisbury House is a restaurant chain based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada . Known locally as "Sals", the chain is considered a Winnipeg institution. The first Salisbury House restaurant was founded in downtown Winnipeg in 1931 by Ralph Erwin (September 2, 1902 – June 5, 1983), [2] who named the venture ...
Fosters Freeze – Restaurant chain based in California, U.S. Friendly's – U.S. East Coast restaurant chain; Frisch's – American restaurant chain; The Forks Resort – Historic lodge in Bass Lake, California, US; Fuddruckers – American hamburger restaurant chain; Gourmet Burger Kitchen – Hamburger restaurant chain based in London, U.K.
Designated. 1989. Union Station is the inter-city railway station for Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is a grand beaux-arts structure situated near The Forks in downtown Winnipeg, and was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1976. [ 1 ] The station is also a Heritage Railway Station, so designated since 1989.