Category: Manitoba

Clearwater Lake is a lake in Manitoba, Canada. It is the main geographical feature of Manitoba’s Clearwater Lake Provincial Park, located northeast of The Pas in western Manitoba. What is there to do in Clearwater Lake Manitoba? Trails. Canoeing. Fishing, Hunting & Trapping. Geocaching. Hiking. Paws in Parks. Trail Conditions. Winter Trails & Experiences. What […]

For marketing purposes, Travel Manitoba considers Northern Manitoba to encompass everything north of the 53rd parallel. Where is Northern Manitoba located? Manitoba is bordered on the east by Ontario, on the south by North Dakota and Minnesota, on the west by Saskatchewan, and on the north by Nunavut. Northeast Manitoba follows the Hudson Bay shoreline. […]

Manitoba’s unique terrain transforms from rolling hills and slopes (or escarpments) in the Riding, Duck and Turtle ‘mountains’ to wide fertile southern plains in the Red River Valley and rugged mineral-rich Precambrian outcroppings of the Canadian Shield to the east and north. What kind of landscape is Manitoba? Since most people still think of Manitoba […]

It is Canada’s fifth-most populous province, with a population of 1,342,153 as of 2021, of widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the north to dense boreal forest, large freshwater lakes, and prairie grassland in the central and southern regions. What is the landscape in Manitoba? Since most people still […]

Natural Resources and Northern Development. Manitoba Forests make up about 26.3 million hectares of the province’s 54.8 million hectare land base. The Northern Coniferous or boreal forest is our largest forest zone. How many forests are in Manitoba? Today there are 15 designated provincial forests in Manitoba, totaling almost 22,000 km2. Where are the most […]

Four of them are right here in Manitoba: the Bloodvein River, Seal River, Hayes River and Red River. Three of those rivers, the Bloodvein, Hayes, and Seal, are known internationally for the wilderness paddling opportunities they offer. What are the 3 main rivers in Winnipeg? Lake Winnipeg, the last remains of glacial Lake Agassiz, lies […]

Deep in the boreal forest about 215 miles (346 kilometers) northwest of Winnipeg, North America’s largest land mammal holds domain over a 250,000-acre (100,300 hectare) forest wilderness. Where is the boreal forest location? The world’s boreal zone is often called “circumpolar” because it circles the Northern Hemisphere, forming a ring around the North Pole, just […]

But more than three-quarters of Manitoba is actually boreal forest, part of the largest intact forest ecosystem remaining on the planet—the 1.2 billion acre (485,000 hectare) Canadian Boreal. Is Winnipeg in the boreal forest? At the heart of Canada’s boreal forest, one of the world’s largest intact forest ecosystems, lies Lake Winnipeg. This map shows […]

provincial Crown Corporation. Manitoba Hydro is a provincial Crown Corporation and one of the largest integrated electricity and natural gas distribution utilities in Canada. We are a leader in providing renewable energy and clean-burning natural gas. Is Manitoba Hydro federally regulated? Our electricity and natural gas rates are regulated by the Public Utilities Board of […]

A “biome” is a major ecological type or region. The Boreal Forest (or Taiga) and the Great Plains (or Prairies) are examples of biomes. Manitoba lies within these two biomes. What biome is Manitoba? Manitoba is the meeting place of several major terrestrial ecosystems – prairies, boreal forest, and tundra. What kind of forests are […]