When Winnipeg locals talk about "going to the coast," they mean the sandy shores of Lake Winnipeg, about an hour away. Part of the draw, says Joanne Liang, a senior buyer at the landmark H.P ...

and Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Although it lasted barely 50 years, the age of the steamboat forged a commercial network between the United States and Canada that exists to this day in the I-29 corridor.

A Manitoba fishing guide who lives on Lake Winnipeg in the winter says he often has to rescue unprepared and inexperienced fishers who become stranded on the ice. "When people come out here and ...