We get up and the sky is still overcast and gray, but it's not raining. So we head down to "The Fork National Historic Site" with all the beautiful sights. There is Union Station (yes, another one), the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, The Forks Market, The Forks Historic Port, and the Oodena Celebration Circle, and so much more.
Union Station, Winnipeg, MB
The buildings at "The Forks"
Inside the Forks Market
The Forks Historic Port
The 8th and Final Fire, a prophecy of the Anishinaabe People
Oodena Celebration Circle
The Oodena Celebration Circle is a significant site honoring the area's Indigenous history and its role as a gathering place for thousands of years. Oodena, meaning "heart of the community" in Ojibwe, is a natural amphitheater designed to connect with the cultural history of The Forks and the forces of earth, water, and sky. Oodena features a 3 meter deep bowl, reminiscent of the archaeological layers of the site, and incorporates elements like celestial orientation markers, an Aeolian harp, and a fire pit symbolizing the connection to the earth and sky. Especially impressive are is the naked-eye observatory, looking through the markers at given dates and times to see celestial constellations.
We could spend the whole day down here, but we must go on and so we pick up TCH again and divert from it west of Portage la Prairie, MB and join Rt-16 or the Yellowhead Route as it is called. We continue through the prairie and endless wheat and corn fields or whatever is farmed here, and pass through Gladstone, MB, Neepawa, MB, moving up to Russel, MB, before crossing into the province of Saskatchewan (SK). In Yorkton, SK we call it the day as we didn't want to take a gamble on the weather which still can't make up its mind between sunshine and/or rain.
Along the way of the Yellowhead Route (Rt-16)
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." - Plato, ancient Greek philosopher
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