The Royal Canadian Mint

 The Royal Canadian Mint  another great place to go.

Winnipeg facility

The Winnipeg Mint is our high-tech, high-volume manufacturing facility. Every single Canadian circulation coin is produced here – literally billions each year. Established in 1976, the Winnipeg plant occupies a 14,864 m² state-of-the-art facility.

Visit the Winnipeg boutique at 520 Lagimodière Blvd. to add to your coin collection, find exciting gift ideas and take home some Mint memorabilia. OR take a guided tour and discover the wonders of high-speed, high-volume coin production.

Ottawa facility

The Royal Canadian Mint's headquarters occupy the historic building in central Ottawa where the Mint was founded in 1908. Today, the Ottawa facility produces hand-crafted collector and commemorative coins, gold bullion coins, medals and medallions. This is where the master tooling is done to create the dies that strike coin designs for both circulation and commemorative issues. The Mint's gold refining and advanced engineering operations are also located here in Ottawa.

Visit the Ottawa boutique at 320 Sussex Drive to add to your coin collection, find exciting gift ideas and take home some Mint memorabilia. OR take a guided tour to learn more about the exacting skill that goes into precision coin design.

Vancouver Store

The Royal Canadian Mint is extending its newest retail location in downtown Vancouver. Located at 752 Granville Street, between Georgia and Robson streets – it's the perfect destination to discover unique gift ideas, exciting new souvenirs, collector products and more!

The Manitoba Museum

The Manitoba Museum this is another great place to go. We haven't been yet but still want too, lol.

Type: History Museums, Natural History Museums, Observatories/ Planetariums

Activities: Shopping

Owner description: This museum provides ­a unique journey through the province of Manitoba, the world and the universe. Explore diverse ecological environments and blast off on an interactive tour of the current night sky.

Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site

Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site is an all time favorite of mine. I would love to go there again (was there when I was in grade two) would love to share it with my children.

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Winnipeg 

“What a great place to visit”

Reviewed 3 September 2012 

 

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We hadn't been to the fort in more than 30 years. Wow, has it changed. Back then it was a site under development with many parts closed and under construction. Now it is a world class tourism site with knowledgeable staff and guides in period costume.

Faithfully maintained as it would have been 160 years ago, we were educated and entertained by all of the "actors" as they played their part.

Lots of parking, reasonable prices, and a restaurant that serves fresh tasty food at prices that are fitting for the establishment. This is an attraction that tourists and locals should see.

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Visited September 2012

Asile Ritchot / Ritchot Orphanage

The Asile Ritchot / Ritchot Orphanage is a place that I want to take my children to for a field trip day soon. I think that it would make an interesting day.

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Asile Ritchot / Ritchot Orphanage (3514 Pembina Highway, Winnipeg)

The first building on this site, erected sometime in the 1870s, was the home of Joseph Lemay. On his death in 1892, it was donated to the local church and, in 1903, Father Noël-Joseph Ritchot arranged the donation of the building and surrounding land to les Soeurs de Misericorde, who operated it as an orphanage from 1904 to 1948. In 1911, they undertook a major expansion, constructing the present three-story brick building.
When Asile Ritchot closed in 1948, the building was used as a seminary by the Oblate Order. In 1970, the X-Kalay Foundation (later renamed the Behavioral Health Foundation) began using it for the treatment of people with drug or alcohol addictions.