MANITOBA (Canada)

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Manitoba is a business-oriented prairie province with an emerging high-technology industry. Manitoba is the most eastern of the three prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba). It's main natural resource is wheat, as it is an ideal province for farming. Enjoy the beaches and grass capped sand dunes of Manitoba, where you have over 100,000 lakes to choose from!

Summers in this province are sunny and hot, whereas winters are bright but bitterly cold. Don't miss out on festivals such as Folklorama, and Festival du Voyageur, which celebrates Manitoba's French Canadian history. If you love to golf, there are over 120 public and private golf courses to choose from including the Miniota Golf Course and Camp Site, the Sandhills Golf and Country Club, and the Restin Golf Course.

Enjoy exhilarating adventure tours at Manitoba's resorts including J.D's Hunting and Fishing Lodge, or Jimmy Robinson's Famous Sports Afield Duck Club. Relax at the end of the day in Manitoba's capital city, Winnepeg, at the 5-star Fairmont Winnepeg

Lots of attractions, activities and sightseeing adventures are waiting to be explored in Manitoba's smaller centres. Drive east of Winnipeg to find the Mennonite Heritage Village museum and the Links at Quarry Oaks golf course in Steinbach. The Whiteshell Provincial Park area near the Ontario border offers beaches, campgrounds and golf courses.

North of Winnipeg, the attractions are the Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site of Canada , Birds Hill Provincial Park  and the white sands of Grand Beach on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg. On the west shore is the resort community of Winnipeg Beach, Gimli, the largest Icelandic settlement in the world and Hecla Island with its replica Hecla Island Icelandic Village .

West of Winnipeg on the Trans Canada Highway to Portage la Prairie and then on to the Yellowhead Highway takes you to Neepawa and the Margaret Laurence Home . Continuing west leads to Clear Lake, a popular beach town with a golf course in Riding National Park .

Head south from there and you come to Brandon, Manitoba's second largest city  - see the contemporary and historical art exhibition at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba . Drive south of Brandon to the U.S. border and discover the International Peace Garden .