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.
The World’s Second Largest Smoking Pipe was constructed in commemoration of early settlers who came from Saint-Claude in the Jura region of France, where the main industry was the manufacture of smoking pipes. This smoking pipe is 6 metres long, 1.5 metres high, and weighs 195 kilos. There is a display...
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The Yellow Quill Trail runs from the correction line south of Treherne to an area well north of the Assiniboine River and in the direction of
Portage la Prairie. This has been recorded in the June 13, 2006 edition of Hansard.