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Canadian Signature Experiences The following Winnipeg experiences are part of Destination Canada's CSE Collection. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights' Exploring a Canadian Landmark half-day experience begins with a guided tour through vibrant galleries full of human rights stories. A gourmet lunch is served in a beautiful location beneath the glass "cloud," where the conversation continues with the tour guide. The focus then shifts to the building's unique architecture and exotic rock faces, and guests take home pieces of the Museum itself (alabaster and basalt) in an elegant gift box. humanrights.ca/visit/tours/exploring- canadian-landmark Experience Winnipeg's own "Da Vinci Code" on a Hermetic Code Tour at the Manitoba Legislative Building. This provincial icon is full of occult clues concealed in its architecture including hidden hieroglyphic inscriptions, numerological codes and Freemasonic symbols so intelligently masked they have escaped historians and visitors for nearly 100 years. heartlandtravel.ca A Prairie Legacy: The Bison and its People at FortWhyte Alive offers an experience full of wildlife, cultural history and environmental education. It begins with a close-up encounter of 30 grunting, munching bison and visits to a Plains Cree tipi and Pioneer Sod House. Snowshoe in winter or paddle a Voyageur canoe in the spring and summer, and savour bush tea and bannock cooked over a campfire. fortwhyte.org/ecotours Head to the Arctic without ever leaving the city at Journey to Churchill: Discover the Magic of the North in the Heart of the Continent. Witness majestic polar bears swim and play from underwater viewing tunnels, and wander across authentic landscapes that showcase other northern species like caribou, wolves and Arctic fox. Go behind the scenes at the laboratories of the Leatherdale International Polar Bear Conservation Centre to see the progress being made in environmental protection and wildlife conservation, as bears are rescued and transitioned to safety. assiniboineparkzoo.ca/zoo/home/ explore/canadian-signature-experience Be part of important research by banding a real, live bird as part of Oak Hammock Marsh's Bird in the Hand experience. Learn why Oak Hammock Marsh is such an important stop during migrations – there can be up to 400,000 avian visitors daily during fall migration. Paddle a long Voyageur canoe in these wetlands that over 300 bird species call home. oakhammockmarsh.ca/learn/signature- experience/ Salvador Maniquiz Mike Peters Mike Peters Mike Peters Courtesy of Oak Hammock Marsh 21 Legends + Tales • Volume 10 • 2023

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