The Forks

Winnipeg was the first stop on our trip west on the Yellowhead Highway -- we'll check out Saskatoon and Edmonton before getting to the Rockies.

The Forks refers to the convergence of the Assiniboine and the Red Rivers, where the historic rail yards are being redeveloped with markets and museums and restaurants.

Crews were still  cleaning up the mud from this past year's floods.  I suspect it was Mrs. Holbrook in 5th Grade who suggested the Monongahela was the only river in the U.S. that flowed north - but she must not have known about the flood-prone Red River that regularly overflows it's banks in Fargo and Grand Forks before heading north to threaten Winnipeg and to dump all that American top soil into Lake Winnipeg.  Eventually it reaches Hudson Bay, via the Nelson River.