Hva som skjer i Winnipeg, Canada gjennom året

Toppsesong — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break i Canada

• Sesong

  Frozen river trail

  5. jan – 5. mar · vanligvisIssesong

  The Assiniboine and the Red are ploughed into a skating trail from The Forks, several kilometres long in a good freeze, with warming huts commissioned from architects each year. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Deep cold (15. des – 20. feb (vanligvis)), Christmas Day closures (24. des – 1. jan)

Travelt — Festival du Voyageur

• Festival

  Festival du Voyageur

  12.–24. feb · vanligvisStor festivalMye folk

  Ten days in the French quarter of St Boniface in the coldest part of February: snow sculpture, fiddle music in heated tents and a fur-trade past taken seriously. It is the largest winter festival in the west. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Frozen river trail (5. jan – 5. mar (vanligvis)), Deep cold (15. des – 20. feb (vanligvis))

Travelt — March break / semaine de relâche i Canada

Ingenting nytt starter i mars.

Fortsatt på gang: Frozen river trail (5. jan – 5. mar (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — en helt vanlig måned

• Fare

  Red River flood season

  1. apr – 10. mai · vanligvis

  Snowmelt on a flat, north-flowing river backs water up across the valley most springs, and the floodway around the city was dug for exactly this. The city itself rarely floods; the roads into it do. Kilde ↗

Skuldersesong — en helt vanlig måned

Ingenting nytt starter i mai.

Fortsatt på gang: Red River flood season (1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis))

Travelt — Summer break i Canada, skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Fare

  Mosquito season

  10. jun – 10. aug · vanligvisInsekter og sykdom

  A wet June turns the surrounding marsh into the worst mosquito ground in the country, and the city runs a fogging programme with published nightly zones. A dry June and you barely notice. Kilde ↗

Toppsesong — Canada Day, Winnipeg Folk Festival

• Helligdag

  Canada Day

  1. julNasjonaldagStengningerMye folk

  1 July is a statutory holiday across the country, moved to 2 July when it falls on a Sunday. Banks, government offices and many shops close, towns put on daytime concerts and parades with fireworks after dark, and hotels and ferries fill when it makes a long weekend. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Winnipeg Folk Festival

  8.–14. jul · vanligvisMusikkfestivalMye folkBestill tidlig

  Five days of camping and stages in Birds Hill Park north of the city in early July, running since 1974 and still the reason people fly in during summer. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Mosquito season (10. jun – 10. aug (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Folklorama, Summer break i Canada

• Festival

  Folklorama

  2.–16. aug · vanligvisStor festivalMye folk

  Two weeks of pavilions run by the city's own communities in halls all over town, each with its own food and dance show. It claims to be the largest festival of its kind anywhere. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Mosquito season (10. jun – 10. aug (vanligvis))

Travelt — Summer break i Canada

• Natur

  Fall goose migration

  15. sep – 25. okt · vanligvisFuglesesong

  Hundreds of thousands of snow and Canada geese stop at Oak Hammock Marsh, half an hour north of the city, from late September into October. Go for sunset, when the flocks fly back in from the fields to roost. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Nuit Blanche Winnipeg

  26. sepKunstfestival

  One late-September night of free art installations and performances from dusk to midnight in the Exchange District, downtown and St Boniface, with free transit between them. Kilde ↗

Skuldersesong — en helt vanlig måned

Ingenting nytt starter i oktober.

Fortsatt på gang: Fall goose migration (15. sep – 25. okt (vanligvis)), Nuit Blanche Winnipeg (26. sep)

Travelt — Santa Claus Parade

• Festival

  Santa Claus Parade

  8.–22. nov · vanligvisJul og nyttårMye folk

  Running since 1909, the city's oldest annual event: an evening parade down Portage Avenue on a mid-November Saturday, with block parties along the route. Dress for the cold. Kilde ↗

Toppsesong — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break i Canada

• Fare

  Deep cold

  15. des – 20. feb · vanligvisEkstrem kulde

  Weeks at a time below minus twenty with a wind off the prairie behind it, which is why downtown is connected by tunnels and skywalks. Cars are plugged in overnight here as a matter of course. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Christmas Day closures

  24. des – 1. janJul og nyttårStengninger

  Christmas Day is a statutory holiday nationwide: most shops, museums and many restaurants close and transit runs a holiday schedule. Boxing Day brings sales crowds to the malls where it is kept, and 1 January is another quiet, mostly closed day. Kilde ↗