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“Pic of the Week”, February 4, 2022: Lady in the Park, Winnipeg
I enjoy interesting pieces of public art. Sometimes a bookish scene like this can qualify as interesting, at least to me.
Located in Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park, inside the English Garden, you can find this statue known as “Lady in the Park”. It’s a bronze created in 1994 by Prince Monyo Mihailescu-Nasturel, a Romanian-American artist. For years the statue was located at the Winnipeg home of entrepeneur Izzy Asper. After he and his wife Babs died, the Lady in the Park was donated to Assiniboine Park by the The Asper Foundation.
The cold and snow make the setting interesting, more so than a warm green summer scene. I like how someone placed a woolen hat on the lady’s head.
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Feb 3, 2022
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“Pic of the Week”, December 10, 2021: The Duck Pond, Winnipeg
The duck pond is a popular gathering spot in Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park. The character of the pond changes greatly with the seasons. In the summer it’s home to lots of ducks and geese, but with the coming of winter (when the wise waterfowl head to warmer climes in the south) it becomes a popular place to skate.
When I visited with my father a few months ago we drove through the park on a cold day and came across these scenes of people skating on the pond — everyone from kids just learning to people very experienced and fast on the ice.
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Dec 9, 2021
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“Pic of the Week”, October 1, 2021: Fall Colors, Birds Hill Park
There’s a nice deciduous forest in a small park just north of Winnipeg known as Birds Hill Provincial Park, which only covers about 8300 acres (3400 hectacres — tiny by Canadian standards). It’s rich in aspen and birch, and even has some oak trees, so when the leaves change color the scenery can be very nice. While it’s not nearly as dramatic as the colors one sees in eastern North America, where maple trees add beautiful shades of crimson and reds, the scenery is pretty nonetheless.
Birds Hill is a small park but because it’s so close to Winnipeg it’s quite popular, receiving about a million visitors a year. Besides a small lake, it has opportunities for camping, hiking, picnicing, horseback …
Sep 30, 2021
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“Pic of the Week”, November 22, 2019: Street Art sampler, Winnipeg
A few of the murals I saw while driving around Winnipeg this past summer. Over the years the number and quality of these has shown an appreciated increase throughout the city.
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Nov 21, 2019
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.All Trips / Central Canada / Manitoba / North America
Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site, Manitoba
I’ve visited many interesting and historic places in my life, and hope to see many more. Lower Fort Garry was the very first of these and, in a way, may have stimulated my desire to see and visit unusual destinations. As a boy we traveled here by school bus for field trips, learning of the fort’s history and seeing actors in period costumes telling us about the lives they lead in the 19th century. It was a hard life — much work, long bitterly cold winters, warm to hot summers filled with millions of mosquitoes. Not at all pleasant.
Lower Fort Garry was built as a Hudson’s Bay Company post in what was then Rupert’s Land (now is Manitoba). Fort Garry …
.All Trips / Car Culture / Central Canada / Manitoba / North America
Great Cars along the Highway…. Winnipeg
A beautiful classic car spotted while visiting my dad in Winnipeg. It was parked in the lot of a shopping mall — well removed from all other vehicles (wisely so, I think). One of my classic cars, a 1957 Chevy Bel-Air. Obviously lovingly maintained. I didn’t get to talk to the owner, but I think the photos tell their own story.
.All Trips / Central Canada / Manitoba
Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg, Canada
The Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg is home to the provincial government of Manitoba — not unlike a USA state capital building. It’s an imposing structure sitting in the heart of historic Winnipeg on the banks of the Assiniboine River, not far from “The Forks” (junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, the historic heart of the city). It’s home to the legislative assembly, its committees, and offices for the ministers of all government departments. Groundbreaking for the building occurred in 1913 but delays in its construction occurred because of material shortages in the First World War, and it was not completed until 1919. It’s official opening was in 1920 on the 50th anniversary of Manitoba’s founding.
The Legislative building consists …
Tagged architecture, goldlen boy, Manitoba Legislature, Winnipeg
.All Trips / Central Canada / Manitoba / North America
Royal Canadian Mint, Winnipeg, Canada
The Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting travel destinations on the prairies It is a place with a combination of artistry and craftsmanship, economics, money, and Canadian pragmatism.
There are two mints in Canada, one in the nation’s capital of Ottawa, and the newer one in Winnipeg. The Ottawa mint is a “low-volume, high quality” facility which makes special issue and bullion coins (eg. Maple Leaf gold coins). The Winnipeg Mint is a high-volume state-of-the-art factory that makes the money Canadians use on a daily basis. Every Canadian circulation coin is produced here –- that’s about a billion coins each year. The Winnipeg mint was established in 1976 …
