Qualla: The Forks, Winnipeg https://qualla.com/the-forks-winnipeg en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/f/g/the-forks-winnipeg-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Forks, Winnipeg https://qualla.com/the-forks-winnipeg The Forks, Winnipeg: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-forks-winnipeg/ Photo credit Wpg guy, CC BY 3.0. Six thousand years before the first European fur trader paddled up the Red River, people were already gathering here. The Forks -- Nestawaya in Cree -- sits at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, and it has been a meeting place for so long that archaeologists excavating the site in the early 1990s unearthed a 3,000-year-old layer of soil they call "the archaic horizon," dense with artifacts from the bison hunt. Nakoda, Cree, Anishinaabe, and Dakota peoples all visited this junction. The Verendrye brothers wrote of "La Fourche des Assiliboiles" in 1738. Designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1974, The Forks today draws four million visitors annually to a place where horse stables became food halls, rail yards became gardens, and the frozen rivers themselves become skating trails that once held a world record.

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/f/g/the-forks-winnipeg-wp/cbfg-the-forks-winnipeg-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Forks, Winnipeg: Where Two Rivers Become One https://qualla.com/the-forks-winnipeg/ Photo credit Wpg guy, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name itself tells the story. "The Forks" comes from the North American usage of fork to mean the junction of two rivers, and the plural form is used because two rivers merge here rather than one splitting apart. The Assiniboine has followed its present course to this meeting ...

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/f/g/the-forks-winnipeg-wp/cbfg-the-forks-winnipeg-where-two-rivers-become-one.mp3 0:06 2 full The Forks, Winnipeg: From Rail Yards to River Walks https://qualla.com/the-forks-winnipeg/ Photo credit Ccyyrree, CC0. For most of the 20th century, The Forks was a tangle of railway infrastructure. The Forks Market itself began as two adjacent horse stables built for competing rail companies -- the Grand Trunk Pacific and the Great Northern -- whose stalls were eventually joined by a courtyard a...

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/f/g/the-forks-winnipeg-wp/cbfg-the-forks-winnipeg-from-rail-yards-to-river-walks.mp3 0:06 3 full The Forks, Winnipeg: Ice, Art, and Prairie Gardens https://qualla.com/the-forks-winnipeg/ Photo credit Ccyyrree, CC0. Winter at The Forks is not something to endure but something to celebrate. The River Trail -- a skating path carved along the frozen Assiniboine and Red Rivers -- once stretched 9.3 kilometres, briefly holding the record for the world's longest skating rink before losing the titl...

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/f/g/the-forks-winnipeg-wp/cbfg-the-forks-winnipeg-ice-art-and-prairie-gardens.mp3 0:06 4 full The Forks, Winnipeg: Monuments at the Meeting Place https://qualla.com/the-forks-winnipeg/ Photo credit Ccyyrree, CC0. The Forks collects meaning the way a river junction collects water. The Oodena Celebration Circle -- oodena is Ojibwe for "centre of the city" -- is a shallow amphitheatre commissioned in 1993 whose excavation uncovered that 3,000-year-old archaic horizon. Eight steel armatures r...

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/f/g/the-forks-winnipeg-wp/cbfg-the-forks-winnipeg-monuments-at-the-meeting-place.mp3 0:06 5 full The Forks, Winnipeg: A Living Crossroads https://qualla.com/the-forks-winnipeg/ Photo credit Ccyyrree, CC0. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, completed in 2014, rises from The Forks on a site of archaeological importance to First Nations history. It is the first national museum in Canada located outside of Ottawa. Throughout the year, The Forks hosts over 200 events, from Canada Da...

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