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The Port of Churchill is a privately-owned port on Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.Routes from the port connect to the North Atlantic through the Hudson Strait.As of 2008, the port had four deep-sea berths capable of handling Panamax-size vessels for the loading and unloading of grain, bulk commodities, general cargo, and tanker vessels.
Churchill is a subarctic port town in northern Manitoba, Canada, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, roughly 140 km (87 mi) from the Manitoba–Nunavut border. It is most famous for the many polar bears that move toward the shore from inland in the autumn, leading to the nickname "Polar Bear Capital of the World" and to the benefit of its burgeoning tourism industry.
The river can be crossed over an all-weather permanent bridge in the community of Berens River First Nation in Manitoba. [5]The Ontario Government announced funding in 2009 for "…design, surveying, environmental assessments and other steps required before construction can begin" for a permanent bridge on the existing winter road between the all-weather road connecting to Ontario Highway 125 ...
Caddy Lake is a lake on the Whiteshell River in south-eastern Manitoba, Canada near the Manitoba–Ontario border. [1] [2] McGillivray Creek drains into the lake on its west side. [4] It is within Whiteshell Provincial Park [5] near West Hawk Lake. [1] The lake has a surface area of about 300 hectares (740 acres) and a maximum depth of 5.7 ...
Delta Marsh consists of an extensive open marsh located near the south shore of Lake Manitoba, approximately 24 km north of the town of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.The marsh extends for nearly 30 km along the shore of the lake, and has a breadth of up to 4 km.
Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation (Ojibwe: Gaa-wiikwedaawangaag) is an Ojibwa First Nation in Manitoba, Canada As of the 2016 Canadian Census , it had a population of 2,515; [ 1 ] while the First Nation's website reported a membership of 6,905 individuals as of December 2019.
In 1980, both First Nation bands in the area (#39 and #40) planned to develop 350 cottage lots on Indian Bay, Shoal Lake. This project was opposed by the City of Winnipeg because of concerns about the safety of its drinking water, which is drawn from Indian Bay. [ 7 ]
Turtle Mountain Provincial Park is situated on the Turtle Mountain (plateau), one of a number of significant geographic features located along the Manitoba Escarpment, the Canadian portion of the Pembina Escarpment. [citation needed] It is located in the Southwest Manitoba Uplands Ecoregion, within the Canadian Prairies. [9]