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The Red River Exhibition (or "The Ex" for short and historically as Manisphere) is a ten-day festival hosted every summer, in June, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The event takes place at Exhibition Park and features a midway, concerts, stage shows, and agricultural exhibits. The park is operated by the Red River Exhibition Association, a not-for ...
This is a list of bus routes in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Winnipeg Transit provides public bus service to the city of Winnipeg, operating 90 bus routes, [1] 4 On-Request services and 5,167 bus stops [2] as of September 2024. Many routes on this list have more than one ultimate destination, even on trips travelling in the same direction.
During the Red River Ex annually in the month of June, Winnipeg Transit operates a shuttle between downtown Winnipeg and the Red River Exhibition grounds. When the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are playing at Princess Auto Stadium during the summer and early fall months, Winnipeg Transit operates several shuttle buses to and from the stadium. These ...
Transport in Winnipeg involves various transportation systems, including both private and public services, and modes of transport in the capital city of Manitoba.. According to Statistics Canada, in 2011, the dominant form of travel in Winnipeg was by car as a driver (69%), followed by commute trips using public transit (15%), as a car passenger (7%), walking (6%), bicycle (2%), and other ...
Switching to "Spine & Feeder" meant that Winnipeg Transit has significantly changed its ideology since 1973, when it began promoting BRT, as the "Open Busway" ensured a "one-seat ride" and "spine & feeder may require a transfer to and from a feeder bus in the Fort Garry, Fort Richmond, and St. Norbert communities. The advantage of the spine ...
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 ...
Selkirk is located in the Interlake Region of Manitoba, about 22 km northeast of the provincial capital Winnipeg on the Red River. A vertical lift bridge over the Red River connects Selkirk with the smaller town of East Selkirk. The city mostly borders the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews, except to the east, where it borders the Rural ...
Since the Red River was an important means of transportation in the early settlement and parish, much of St. Andrews' history can be seen along River Road.The parish of St. Andrews was situated between two major fur trading centres of the Hudson's Bay Company, Lower Fort Garry (near present-day Selkirk) and Upper Fort Garry (located in present-day Winnipeg).