The Forks
The Forks is where the Red and Assiniboine Rivers meet. The Forks has been a Manitoban meeting place for thousands of years. First Aboriginal Peoples and then fur traders would gather together at the Forks. Today it is Winnipeg's most popular tourist spot. Click on the links below to read the notes made by a journalist, Kip Park, during his interviews with the General Manager of the Forks Market, the Senior Archaelogist at the Forks, and the President and CEO of the Forks Renewal Corporation to see why The Forks is considered by many Manitobans to be such a historically-, culturally-, and environmentally-important landmark. Then write a paragraph or two in your own words on why you think or don't think that The Forks is a historically-, culturally-, and environmentally-significant Manitoban landmark.