1. Manitoba

2. Bird: Great Grey Owl
Tree: White Spruce
Flower: Crocus

3. History: The heart of the French and English fur-trading area, the Native Canadians were soon joined by settlers from Eastern Canada. Their descendents are known as the Metis.
Capital: Winnipeg
Geography: Plains, large lakes
(like Lake Winnipeg)
Climate: Continental, subarctic. Similar to the Dakotas
Language: 90% English, other Native and European languages

4. Economy: Cattle, wheat, sunflowers, canola oilseed, potatoes

5. Food Imperial cookies Pierogis and kubasa
Smoked goldeneye and rye bread
Farmer’s sausage & Kielke

6. Miscellaneous: Churchill, Manitoba is famous for the large numbers of polar bears that live near the city.

7. Lake Winnipeg

8. Great Plains

9. Lake Winnipeg

10. First Nations Camp

11. Canola Oilseed fields

12. Canola Oilseed fields

13. Winnipeg

14. Polar Bears

15. Churchill

16. Northern Lights