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town in Manitoba, Canada

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capital city of the province of Ontario, Canada

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Sights (4)

Esplanade Riel

Footbridge in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

588m

49.89077778-97.12694444

The Forks, Winnipeg

historic site, meeting place and green space in Downtown Winnipeg located at the confluence of the Red River and the Assiniboine River

1.0km

49.88694444-97.13055556

St. Vital Park

Regional park in St. Vital (Winnipeg), Canada

5.3km

49.8285-97.1404

Assiniboine Park Zoo

11km

49.86916667-97.23055556
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Winnipeg

Canada
Someday we will visit Winnipeg or begin to dream about going there! However, for now its not on our radar. Let us know in the comments if you think that should change!

Winnipeg

Winnipeg is Manitoba's capital and largest city, and stands midway on the Trans-Canada Highway and railway. With 700,000 inhabitants, The Peg dominates the Canadian Prairies and is as diverse as the whole of Canada.

Winnipeg was named the Cultural Capital of Canada in 2010 by Canadian Heritage. As of 2012, there are 26 National Historic Sites of Canada in Winnipeg. One of these, The Forks, attracts four million visitors a year. It is home to the City television studio, Manitoba Theatre for Young People, the Winnipeg International Children's Festival, and the Manitoba Children's Museum. It also features a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m) skate plaza, a 8,500-square-foot (790 m) bowl complex, which features a mural of Winnipeg skateboarding pioneer Jai Pereira, the Esplanade Riel bridge, a river walkway, Shaw Park, and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The Winnipeg Public Library is a public library network with 20 branches throughout the city, including the main Millennium Library.

Winnipeg lies at the bottom of the Red River Valley, a flood plain with an extremely flat topography. It is on the eastern edge of the Canadian Prairies in Western Canada and is known as the "Gateway to the West". Winnipeg is bordered by tallgrass prairie to the west and south and the aspen parkland to the northeast, although most of the native prairie grasses have been removed for agriculture and urbanization. It is relatively close to many large Canadian Shield lakes and parks, as well as Lake Winnipeg (the Earth's 11th largest freshwater lake). Winnipeg has North America's largest extant mature urban elm forest. The city has an area of 464.08 km (179.18 sq mi).

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Climate

Average temperatures

Jan

-6.7°C
Precipitation: 584.2 mm

Feb

-9.4°C
Precipitation: 355.6 mm

Mar

-5.6°C
Precipitation: 406.4 mm

Apr

0°C-12.2
Precipitation: 254 mm

May

15°C-7.2
Precipitation: 25.4 mm

Jun

32.2°C-5
Precipitation: 0 mm

Jul

21.7°C-3.3
Precipitation: 0 mm

Aug

23.9°C-3.9
Precipitation: 0 mm

Sep

11.1°C-7.2
Precipitation: 0 mm

Oct

2.2°C-11.7
Precipitation: 127 mm

Nov

-3.9°C
Precipitation: 533.4 mm

Dec

-7.2°C
Precipitation: 508 mm