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THE FORKS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

The Forks National Historic Site ranks at the top of visitor to-do lists, thanks to its marketplaces, Sunday summer farmers’ market, Children’s Museum, Manitoba Theatre for Young People, traditional Indigenous Oodena Celebration Circle, Festival Park and Stage with free concerts, Riverwalk and summer boat rides along the Assiniboine. In winter, the river becomes a skating, skiing and snowball-throwing playground, with warming huts designed by an assortment of international architects. Around the borders of The Forks is the Beaux Arts 1911-vintage Union Station rail terminal, the post-contemporary Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and the elegant cable-stayed Provencher Bridge with the little restaurant, Mon Ami Louis, halfway across it (www.parkscanada. gc.ca/forks).