At least there are trees. Wait to you hit Saskatchewan and you don’t even have that.
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"My friend's wife left him in Manitoba, 5 days later he could still see her walking away."
Usually the jokes are about Saskatchewan, but Manitoba is substantially flatter. Much of Manitoba was the lakebed of glacial lake Agassiz - the largest lake to have existed in north america, and about 50 times the size of Missoula. When the ice dams broke, Lake Agassiz dumped so much fresh water into the North Atlantic that it disrupted global ocean currents, triggering a period of rapid global cooling known as the Younger Dryas.
Fun fact, if look up Niverville MB on the map (just outside of Winnipeg) you can see iceberg scours still present on the landscape - this is where icebergs scraped the bottom of the lake.
"I've heard every joke
I've heard every word you say"
I live in Manitoba. I could not hit the up vote fast enough.
Guys have you seen our fields? We got fields.
Yeah living here is dull as fuck, but here's a great story, I was driving on the highway 30 years ago and I saw a man stopped and staring out into a field. I had assumed he had car troubles and was staring out into the field in exhaustion, and I was stopping to be compassionate. He explained that he was visiting from China on a conference, and he had opportunity to rent a car. He was just staring into the canola fields, because he had never seen anything like that in his life - his reality was living in a highly congested city where a postage stamp of sky was visible for 18 seconds a day behind the smog & skyscrapers.
That's it, back to Winnipeg!
I had a shirt that said this
please and thank you! just in time to see the wild vs jets on tuesday next week. haven't been up there since the first incarnation of the moose moved up there from the cities.
It's got the world largest know congregation of snakes in the spring.
Go on...?
We have this famous area called Garson, where the Garson garter snake balls roll around in their mating routines. Garter snakes are very thin, like than a pinky finger and harmless
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Didn't realize this would be of interest! Here's a link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcisse_Snake_Dens
I don't know what the deal is with Garson I think it's the town? Weird that I live here and I don't really know the details, everybody just calls them to Garson snake pits. A bunch of snakes rolling around in a mating ball is not on my list of things to care about though
Look up Narcisse Snake Dens. I'm not from Manitoba but I went there once, it was awesome, judt thousands of thousands of snakes all in big piles mating or trying to get some action.
No, that's Ottawa when Parliament reopens.
I always forget manitoba exists it's bc, alberta, saskatchewan then ontario, quebec and newfoundland/labrador
Manitoba is the most vague provence
Oh hey! It's the ACE flag
Well, what are you waiting for? Get out there with a piece of chalk and list some attractions.
Winnipeg and Manitoba will always have a place in my heart for what it lost by the COVID pandemic. I was awarded a full paid interchange scholarship to do a semester on statistics on the Winnipeg university paid by the Canadian government, but it was sadly canceled because of COVID. I was already visualized my time there, all the people and friends I had, and then suddenly all the plans scrapped.

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