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Current Rivers West Projects

CURRICULUM GUIDES
Rivers West curriculum guides help Canadian teachers use the Red River as an example when teaching the Manitoba curriculum. 

NEW FOR FALL 2010: French ressource guide for Places historiques au long de la rivière Rouge (sciences sociales - 4 à 6 année)

All three guides provide local information, encourage hands-on site-based learning and contain hundreds of activities and fieldtrip ideas that match curriculum outcomes. Check out the award winning "Habitat Means Home" guide (grade 4 science)  Red River Basin Water System guide (grade 8 science) and the new Historic Places of the Red River-vol 1 + 2 (grades 4-6 social studies).

Open Document

Rivers West is commited to the development of a greenway along Manitoba’s Red River as part of its overall plan to develop the Red River corridor as a destination. Manitoba’s greenway is part of a larger international initiative to develop a greenway along the Red from Lake Traverse in South Dakota to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba.

Rivers West has been working with the Manitoba Floodway Authority and the province of Manitoba to develop a greenway along the Red. 

 

2010 Greenway Activities

 

FIND GOLD ON THE RED CONTEST         

June 23 to August 2, 2010

                                                                                                                                               Rivers West Red River Corridor Inc., in collaboration with several partners, is encouraging people of all ages to participate in this contest while becoming acquainted with interesting sites located in various communities along the Red River Corridor                                                                                                                                                     

Winner week 1 is - Dana Myrowich
Location:  Hyland Park in RM of East St. Paul

 

Winner week 2 is  Marie Ziesmaan
Location:  Big sturgeon fish statue in Dominion City

 

Winner week 3 is -Angel Savard
Location: Louis Riel Monument at St. Boniface Museum 

 

Winner week 4 is - Ron Hucal
Location: Heritage Waterfront Monument, Selkirk Manitoba

 

Winner week 5 is - Leo Laramee.jpg
Location : Red River Valley Floods Interpretive Centre, Ste. Agathe

 

Winner week 6 is  Marie Ziesman.jpg

Location : Morris & District Memorial Museum, Morris 

 

BONUS LOCATION #1:          
Trappist Monastery Ruins, St. Norbert

Winner - Joan Wonnacott

Bonus location winner.jpg

 

BONUS LOCATION #2:
St. Andrews Lock & Dam, Lockport

Winner - Dana Myrowich and daughter:

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News & Articles 

CANADIAN RIVERS DAY 2010- ARMADA

ACCESS MANITOBA -Sustainable communities

Press Release    

 

Research Activities

The following research has been conducted which will be valuable in assessing and capitalizing on opportunities that exist along the new floodway/greenway:

                                                                                                                                            

Floodway Activity

Floodway Trail opinion survey (44 kB)

Floodway Recreation Consultation Study - watch the video
 

Flood Trail Plan and Drawings:

Access (5.3 MB)

Attractions (3.8 MB)

Climate and Buffers (7 MB)

Floodway Engineering (5.4 MB)

Floodway Sections (0.9 MB)

Landscape Units (6.8 MB)

Links and Loops (4.8 MB)

Opportunities and Constraints (5.7 MB)

Opportunities and Constraints (base) (5.6 MB)

    

Floodway Expansion Q & A

 

Greenway Activity

Greenway report (300 kB)

 

 

Map 1 (200 kB)

Map 4 (600 kB)

 

Map 2 (470 kB)

Map 5 (200 kB)

 

Map 3 (250 kB)

Map 6 (260 kB)

 

Greenway concept (500 kB)

Greenway existing conditions (380 kB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
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