Landed today in Winnipeg, capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba, for a conference of four days of all colleges in Canada (Colleges and Institutes Canada). This was another "first" for me in this country that is so large in size. I had some time to walk around this evening...
The conference this year is hosted by Red River College. This is one of their campuses, one that has a focus on culinary skills and food technology.
Manitoba is right in the middle of the country; Winnipeg is close to the US border; they call it the region with a thousand lakes; fishing has to be one of your hobbies if you live here!
A rich history through the past few hundred years of the clashes and the mixing of the races between the "first nations" and the European immigrants, resulting in new cultures such as the "metis".
Winnipeg has a brand-new and sensational Canadian Museum for Human Rights, right next to the Red River, so rich a place of the "meeting of the peoples".
"The Forks" is the historic site where so many peoples met over the years on the shores of the red river. Nowadays the city created a nice area for people to again get together and enjoy each others company and eat & drink....
Back to downtown where the conference begins tomorrow....
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