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The French River Provincial Park Visitor Centre is an information, education, and events centre along the French River in Ontario, Canada.The building opened in 2006 and was designed by Baird Sampson Neuert Architects in collaboration with the Government of Ontario, Ministry of Natural Resources. [1]
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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 ...
This is a list of museums in Manitoba, Canada.There are nearly 200 museums in Manitoba, with over 40 in the City of Winnipeg alone. [1]For this context, museums are defined as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or ...
Centre d'interprétation de la nature du Lac Boivin: Granby: Montérégie: website (in French), 1,114 acres Centre d'interprétation de la nature et marais Laperrière: Duhamel-Ouest: Abitibi-Témiscamingue: website (in French), open seasonally, natural history of the wetlands area Maison Girard Interpretive Centre: L'Isle-Verte: Bas-Saint-Laurent
This is a list of historic places in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, whether they are federal, provincial, or municipal. List of historic places [ edit ]
The French River flows through typical Canadian Shield country, in many places exposing rugged glaciated rock but also through heavily forested areas on the upper portion. . The mouth of the river contains countless islands and numerous channels which vary from narrow, enclosed steep-walled gorges, falls and rapids, to broad expanses of open wat
From Lake Winnipeg one could go southwest to the Assiniboine River, northwest to the Saskatchewan River, and from there to Lake Athabasca or northeast up the Hayes River to Hudson Bay. As such, the area was home to three posts: second Fort Maurepas (French, c. 1739), Fort Bas de la Rivière (NWC, 1792), and Fort Alexander (HBC, before 1800).