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Absolutely love Winnipeg. During the summer it is such a treat to live in Winnipeg, with all the outdoor patios and venues in the city and the many lakes and beautiful beaches just outside the city. You gave a good sample of downtown, but there is so much more to see. The Exchange District (beyond Main Street), Assiniboine Park, Osborne Village and amazing restaurants. 12:12 Fun fact: Building on the left (Union Bank Tower) was the tallest building in the Commonwealth when it was constructed. Is now a part of the Red River Polytechnic campus in the Exchange District.
Thank you for this useful info! I agree that Winnipeg is completely underrated, and I look forward to discovering more of the city with each visit! Thanks for these local tips 😀
Very , very underated city. Exchange District, Osborne Village, The Forks and all the summer/fall festivals, surrounding lakes (Grand Beach, Winnipeg Beach, Falcon Lake ect). Excellent restaurants and many different cultural foods.
Great job! Winnipeg gets such a bad Rep but I love it! Sure it has some negatives but there's also so much to explore that residents take for granted and instead focus on the bad.
Thanks for sharing your experience in Winnipeg. I wished that I did the same while I was there this past summer. I didn't get a chance to visit the attractions due to a funeral, but I'm sure I'll be back again.
I simply LOVE WINNIPEG! I would never out of here to any other major cities such as Toronto or Vancouver. So many things to do and I’m out and about in a beautiful lake in about 1hr from the city core. Besides, it has one of the best fishing spots in the country! You missed showing the Assiniboine Zoo. But you made me cry featuring my vieux quartier de Saint Boniface. thank you so much for the video!
Not a problem! I am glad to have showcased a city that deserves much more positive attention. Thank you for your comment and for checking out my channel 🙏
It's nice to see the city through fresh eyes like this. Nice work. Lots of little things residents don't really notice because they've become normal after living here for so long.
Just to make note that you were touring downtown Winnipeg , I 'd like to add that there's also a hockey arena for the jets and a baseball stadium for the goldeyes for added entertainment .
Winnipeg is worth visiting. Some things to see in Winnipeg: the Forks Market, the Canadian Human Rights Museum, the Royal Canadian Mint, the Manitoba Legislative Building. The pace of life is slower than the hustle and bustle of other Canadian cities like Toronto, Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver.
Just a historic note. The cathedral was lost to a fire in the late 1960’s. All that is left is the front facade. The new cathedral is found behind the ruins. It was designed by architect etienne gaboury, who also designed the mint in Winnipeg and the pedestrian suspension bridge that you showed in your video.
When I visited (just for an afternoon), I went in with low expectations (due to it's reputation of being "boring") and I was pleasantly surprised. While it's no where near as nice as Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver, it's worth spending a day there for sure. I'd like to go again some day.
I had planned to travel back to Winnipeg last year but the covid stopped me. Thx for sharing the moments in Winnipeg, the city where I had both good&bad memory as a student 10 years ago.
Sir, a fan from China. I’m admitted to U of Toronto, Waterloo, and UBC. (And possibly McMaster) But also schools in the US. Your traveling videos made me want to come to Canada for college despite the fact that I’m a huge NBA, NFL, and MLB fan!! Could you please do a series of travel vlogs to Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, or the three provinces in northern Canada? Appreciate the good work!!
Great to have you check out my channel! I hope you get the chance to relocate to Canada. I’ve not been able to make any vlogs of the Maritime provinces due to their strict COVID restrictions but I plan to visit there after they settle down a bit more. I live in Nunavut territory in northern Canada, so expect to see a lot of content from there in the coming months! The Yukon & NWT will take a while (again due to covid restrictions). Thank you for watching 🙏
Dave I'm from here. That part of Main St was known as Bankers Row think 14. The walking bridge, used to be the old road one, was damaged from the 97 flood and replaced by the new one beside it. Nutty Club building was built in 1905. U did a nice job showing part of the downtown area.
Taste of Sri Lanaka is by far my favourite place to eat at The Forks, pretty much tradition for me - if I'm at The Forks, I'm eating Sri Lankan. If you're ever here again, you absolutely have to try it.
Sounds great! I saw that place but wasn’t sure of the food or what would be good. What dish(es) would you most recommend? I’ll be in Winnipeg again in the coming months and will try it!
@@DrifterDave Anything really! I don't like eggplant at all, but theirs is ridiculously good. Whatever sauce or spices used, it's fantastic. Eggplant curry on savoury rice with butter chicken. SO GOOD!
In one other's video vlog I heard this guy complaining that there was no night life in Winnipeg. But, he probably didn't venture out to really find out that, yes, there is an abundance of night life. Tons of places to enjoy the evening...nightclubs of all kinds, karaoke lounges, sidewalk cafes...night time is beautiful in Winnipeg. :-)
Its a meh here, i live here in the peg but nothing special. One thing i'd say if you were gonna visit winnipeg, downtown area is the scariest part as their is so much bad people, anywhere outside is fine unless your gonna watch the jets hockey game. But due to the virus, maybe not the best time
@@DrifterDave Just saying, that spot you were saying had a lot of aggressive homeless people is odd in just how many there are there, you literally could not have chosen a more unusual spot to judge the downtown on. Also as I Winnipeger I can tell you that most Winnipegers are irrationally afraid of many parts of our city, often without very good reason. Even the most dangerous places are not a dangerous as people think. Those blocks around Portage and Main are some of the worst parts of downtown though.
@@ndv135 Very good to know! I'll be returning to Winnipeg in the future, so any local tips that you might have to offer on what else to see and do would be greatly appreciated! 😎
@@DrifterDave During a normal years there are a LOT of festivals in the summer, including one of the largest fringe theatre festivals in North America, and the Folk Festival, which is held outside of the city at Birds Hill Provincial Park (which is also a nice place). The Manitoba Museum, which is another museum in town is a pretty nice museum too, it has a exhibit that has recreated a section of turn of the century Winnipeg streets, which most people who come here like. Around the city you can find regions with various different cultural routes, many communities along the Red still speak French as their first and primary language, and I can see that you have already been to Dauphin and Gimli. A bit of a hidden gem is the Our Lady of Immaculate Conception Church in Cooks Creek, a small village North-East of Winnipeg, it is very large, and intricately decorated, with a large grotto next to it, (and I mean large). You also didn't make it into the sort of main part of the Exchange District, which is more so west of Main Street. A lot of the ethnic restaurants in Winnipeg are down a street called Ellice Ave, in a area called the West End. The Assinboine Park Zoo has one of the worlds best Polar Bear sanctuaries in the world, and the Zoo is ranked very highly for its conservation work, if not necessarily its size. A smaller local thing is the ruins of a Monastery just south of the city in a town called Saint Norbert that you liked the St. Boniface Cathedral you might like it. Fort Gibraltar is a recreation of the old British Fort of the same name, and Lower Fort Gary, like 20 minutes north of the city is a very well preserved historic fort, that has both a museum in the visitors centre, and a living museum in the fort itself, with people in costume playing the part of various historical occupants of the fort, (not this year though, for obvious reasons). Also the Cathedral in Cooks Creek holds and annual Medieval Festival, and Gimili hosts an annual Viking festival. Also like someone else I saw in the comments I would have to recommend the West side of Lake Winnipeg, Grand Beach is the most famous, but there are countless other more secluded and not as busy beaches along it too, like Patricia and Hillside. One very cool thing in the Whiteshell is the Bannock Point Petroforms, which are a collection of ancient petroglyphs, (images made of stone laid out on bare rock that form pictures or other shapes) which is defiantly a Manitoba highlight. Also almost forgot the Narcisse Snake Dens, which play host to one of the largest annual snake migrations, they return to the dens every year to mate in the pits and caverns. Some areas that are cool are also Osborne Village, Corydon Avenue, and some parts of a neighborhood called Wolseley, which has some old buildings with cute little corner shops in them.
Thank you for the wealth of information! I'll be printing these tips out and keeping them for my next visit to Winnipeg! Thank you for sharing these suggestions with the community 🙏
Every city has its issues! Hopefully it cleans up the worst of its social problems. Though, there's still beauty to be found here and I did enjoy my short visit to the city.
If you are white and conservative then Winnipeg is not for you, the best of Canada? B.C. and Alberta, I have a border with both provinces and this area is beautiful.
I am a born and bred Albertan! And I'd agree with you that it's the best place in Canada (though I am very biased!). Are you in the NWT or Montana then? Both would be two of my favorites!
