Do you agree with the experts?

What does community involvement mean for the region? 

This is the last post on Churchill.  With Polar Bear Season fast approaching, maybe this is also the most important...

Download Spotlight Magazine on Prairiemango

Welcome to the Beluga Whale Capital of the World

We're finally in Churchill and here is a preview of what to see...

Passing over lakes and rivers, it’s hard to imagine the amount of work that went into building this rail line...

Connecting with our local farms and experiencing first hand the lifestyle will help us understand and relate to the struggles that they are facing this year...***Video Inside***

 

The Winnipeg to Churchill train doesn’t stay in Manitoba for the duration of the trip. It dips into Saskatchewan for a few Kilometres...

For those who have not heard, the train trip to Churchill takes approximately 48 hours. It is often said that...

From my seat on the train, you can see the devastation on farmer’s fields that the wet weather has played throughout southern Manitoba this year...

We have to start somewhere and it might as well be Winnipeg. If you’re taking the train to and from Churchill...

What is sustainable tourism?  Is it Ecotourism?  Watch the video...

 

A few weeks back, the Agassiz Mountain Development Group played host to CJOB’s Richard Cloutier for his - Richard Cloutier Reports segment. 

What does it all mean???

Almost 2 years from first glimmers, Prairiemango is doing its first, ‘Year in Review’.  From first glance, and hopefully seconds, it’s been a productive and eye opening year. 

Audio File from CJOB - East Side of Lake Winnipeg 

A “Biosphere Reserve” is a designation of recognition from UNESCO for an area which demonstrates a “balanced relationship between humans and the biosphere.”

Having not been to Mt. Agassiz before this past July, it’s hard to believe that something so amazing is not being utilized.  For an outsider looking in, you hear of the who, what, when, where and why’s of the past, with ideas and vision for the future.  The reopening Mt. Agassiz seems to get the nod from all the folks around town as a need for the region. 

 

To build upon a past blog post called ‘A Mountain of Opportunity,’ I asked the question, ‘what type of investment needs to happen?’

 

This is my answer…

Manitoba, best known for its abundance of lakes, forests and farmland has a lesser known environment to gush over…mountains!

 

A mountain bike ‘gathering’ organized by the Agassiz Mountain Development Group ran for the first time on the East Escarpment trails in Riding Mountain National Park at the end of August. The objective is to familiarize Manitoban’s to the vast opportunities for unique recreational and nature experiences.

Heading up the #5 on my way towards McCreary, I’ve come to this area for dose of rural life and to get the lowdown on Mt. Agassiz.  This region is rich with diverse environments not commonly seen or associated with Manitoba.

In the distance overlooking McCreary, you have Riding Mountain National Park and neighboured with the East Escarpment, you have Mt. Agassiz Ski Area.  For those who don’t know, Mt Agassiz was the host for the 1979 Canada Winter Games.  Everyone I’ve met in the area boasts that this is the best terrain between here and the Rockies to the West and Lakehead to the east in Thunder Bay.