Day 2: Morden

Latitude/Longitude
49° 11' 0" N / 98° 6' 0" W

Average Temperature
Day in summer: 25 Degrees Celcius
Night in summer: 10 Degrees Celcius

Interior Plains contain hills, escarpment [cliffs], low mountains, forests, wide river valleys, sand dunes and prairie grass


Morden is a small town with a population of approximately only 6571. The creation of town dates back to 1882, when the Canadian Pacfic Railway was built in Morden. This town was designated as corn and apple belt in 1925 due to its long warm growing season. This allowed the prairies suitable for growing the best corns and apples in Morden.

Their economy is based on their farms and agriculture.

I decided to visit Morden to join the Corn and Apple festival. The festival was originated in 1967, to celebrate Canada's 100th anniversary. I was so excited to have fun in the festival. From Corn and Apple festival, I enjoyed everything for free! I had the chance to enjoy hot buttered corn-on-the-cob, ice cold apple cider, and lastly the amazing performances on stage by many well known performers.  Not only that, there were numerous amounts of street vendors, crafts, and food I could pick from.

After I spent time eating, drinking, and watching shows, I decided to visit the amusement park. The amusement park gave me more options. There were more than 20 rides I could pick from. I got on the rollercoaster and felt as if I was traveling back in time to when I was a little boy. I enjoyed the amusement park.

Then the marching band of men wearing kilts marched on. They were playing bagpipes, smashing on the drums, making enough noise to wake everyone up. I found it annoying and hard to listen to, but people seemed to enjoy it. Then two women with crowns stood on a moving platform waving at people. I did not know why they were up there, but it was interesting.

The festival was great. I spent my time without realizing.

Day 3: Churchill

Population: 1000

The only Canada's inland seaport


Churchill's Latitude is 58 Degrees 47 N
The Longitude is 94 Degrees 11 W

According to Census 2006, 56.41% of the population were aboriginal people.

Churchill is a part of Canadian shield region, made of granite and gneiss.

Churchill is where the Hudson's Bay Company built the first permanent settlement, Churchill Riverpost. It has the history of aboriginal people trading with Hudsonbay company,

I took the longest car ride to Churchill. I decided to go all the way up to Churchil in order to see polar bears and to examine the permafrost and its condition. I doubt the ice would be would last long due to global warming, so I thought it would be interesting to visit Churchill.
Churchill has subarctic climate, meaning it has long cold winters and short mild summers. The tourist attraction of this place is their animal polar bears.

I have visited Churchill to see polar bears. I planned to get on a special transportation bus called Tundra Buggy which allows many tourists to watch these dangerous hungry polar bears without risking any danger. However, it was in the summer when I visited and polar bear expedition only happened in October and November. I travelled all the way to Churchill to see polar bears, but I made the biggest mistake. Though I couldn't see polar bears, Churchill was also famous for another tourist attraction: birds. Churchill has more than 270 species of birds including Snowy Owl, Tundra Swan, American Golden Plover and Gyrfalcon. Plus, more than 100 birds, including Parasitic Jaeger, Smith's Longspur, Stilt Sandpiper, and Harris's Sparrow.
I enjoyed watching birds along with other tourist groups.

Tundra Buggy

Lastly, at night I saw a aurora forming in the night sky. It was very interesting.


The main problem in any permafrost region is their melting ice. Due to the rise in temperature, ice has been melting, leading to rise in sea levels. These ice were home to penguins, polar bears and many other animals, but destruction in these due to our endless creation of gases will soon lead to extinction of these poor animals. These problems must be resolved, or the main tourist attraction of Churchill, Polar bears, willl no longer exist.

Day 1: Winnipeg

What is the largest city in Manitoba? Winnipeg!

Which city in Manitoba has 50% of its province's population? Winnipeg!

The longitude of Winnipeg is 97° 10' 0" W
The latitude of Winnipeg is 49° 53' 0" N

Winnipeg's average temperature
Day: 23 Degrees Celcius
Night: 9.3 Degrees Celcius

What are my travel plans in this city?

After hours of research, I have carefully put together the trip outline.

Places to go (Just two):

Festival du Voyageur, the FORKS

The FORKS, Winnipeg

July 1st, 2011

I visited The Forks in the morning. Even though it was early, a crowd of people were in the market busy opening their stores. I saw stores selling souvenirs, food, and desserts. The restaurants looked really nice so I walked into one had the best breakfast. The market at the Forks had fabulous food stores selling gourmet cheeses, great quality meat, organic baked goods, and fine wines. I found the whole wheat cinnamon buns to be absolutely fabulous. I have never tried cinnamon buns as great as the one I tried that day.

After visiting the market, I decided to rent a bike at the Bee2gether Bike. I rented a red bike called Full Step Thru for $10 per hour.

The bike ride was fun;I rode it to my destination: Festival du Voyageur.

Festival du Voyageur

I rode my bike to Festival du Voyageur by crossing the bridge. I arrived at 2:30 PM,

The festival is indescribable with words; it was amazing to see how people can create such big event. I saw people gather in a circle of crowds and in the middle would be a person showing fancy magic tricks or often singing, dancing, playing violins, guitars, bongos, drums and many more. The festival was interesting thanks to all these people who have contributed their time and effort to perform such fabulous shows to us. At night, when it was dark enough, the fireworks shot out in the night sky. It was frightening to see huge fireworks when I am right under it. The administrators put a lot of effort for such a great event. The festival was the best in the trip I had so far. Inside each houses there were fun games happening between people. For example, we played a game in which two men lied on the floor facing the opposite directions, and they would only use their right leg, hook it around each other's leg, and pulled it down to win. The man with stronger thighs would win the game. I tried once, but was humiliated as I lost instantly. It was now late at night, I do not remember what time I headed to find a hotel. Then down the Inkster Boulevard, I found a place called Canad Inns. It seemed very nice so I decided to stay for a night. I got into a room, took a shower and got ready to sleep.

Then, I heard a wild scream outside. I looked outside the window, and I saw teenagers hijacking a car. I was shocked to see such a disaster. I never expected to see such gruesome crime during my trip to a place as wonderful as Winnipeg. Obviously the boys were not wonderful.
(Winnipeg was listed as the capital of car theft for NUMBER of years. It is dangerous during the night to walk alone or leave a valuable in a car, or even park a car. It is strongly advised to tourists that no one should be out in Winnipeg during the night.)

Day 1: Manitoba

Before I start my journey to Manitoba, I should research about it in my room!
yay

Demographics: 1,177,765 (in the year 2006)

James Chung researching on Manitoba before
he makes his wonderful trip for his summer vacation
He hopes it would be interesting!

Official Language: English and French

Manitoba is a province bordered by Saskatchewan, Ontario, Nunavut, and the American states of North Dakota and Minnesota. It is known to have more than 110,000 lakes, which covers 15.6% of the whole province. Its economy depends mainly on their agriculture, and other major industries such as transportation, manufacturing, mining, forestry, energy, and tourism. This province was where the red river settlements occured and has a history of Louis Riel and his execution. Manitoba was the 5th to join the confederation on July 15, 1870.

Since I am planning to make a trip in the summer, I researched about the climate of Manitoba. In July, the temperature ranges from 26 degrees Celcius in the day to 9 degrees celcius at night. At the lower part of the province, tornadoes occur approximately once every year, causing problems damaging properties. In 2007, on June 22nd, a tornado hit Manitoba Ellie damaging structures costing $39 million.This was the strongest tornado in North America since 1999. Amazing!

The forests make up 48% of the whole province land area, containing trees such as

"pines (mostly Jack Pine, some Red Pine), spruces (white, black), larch, poplars (Trembling Aspen, balsam poplar), birch (white, swamp) and small pockets of Eastern White Cedar(wikipedia)."

Now I should start on my journey!