Close your eyes and hear the thunder of the buffalo hooves across this vast prairie; the pounding hooves of a fleeing white horse carrying young lovers from a midnight rendezvous; the creaking of the giant wheels of the Red River ox carts as families move west seeking new beginnings. These are a few of the "Echoes and Legends" of Manitoba's Central Plains. Built on a wealth of history, the Central Plains region is rich in diversity. Build your own "Echoes and Legends" as you visit our communities.
A Sioux Indian chief wished to marry the beautiful daughter of an Assiniboine chief. The Assiniboine, however, gave his daughter’s hand to a Cree chief with whom she was in love because the Cree offered a rare snow white horse as a gift. The angry Sioux pursued the Cree and his...
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Postage Stamp Province, Plaque at Williams Park. Here ran the west original boundary of the Province of Manitoba. On July 15, 1870 Manitoba officially became a Canadian province. It then measured about 130 miles east to west and 110 miles north to south, with an area of 13,928 square miles. Its...
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