The Forks - A Winnipeg Gem

I always enjoy myself being in crowded places. As an International student in Winnipeg, the Forks is one of the first places I think about when I have no exams coming and want to hang out with my friends. It is also a place whose history taught me to acknowledge my prejudice towards Indigenous Peoples and appreciate the land that supports my studies.

The Forks is Downtown Winnipeg’s public place for gathering, celebration, recreation. It is located at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, right next to the one and only Winnipeg’s inter railway - Winnipeg’s Union Station, and to the South of Main Street.

Over the past two centuries, the Forks has experienced many transformations and developments, from a place for Indigenous Peoples to hunt bison over 6000 years ago, trade fur with the European in 1738, to the base of many railways built to accommodate immigrants to Western Canada. The area now remains to its true core of a location for important dialogue and correspondence.

Sunny TP, Winnipeg