Halfway
Ontario Begins The Rural Municipality of Taché - Manitoba If our journey across Alberta, Saskatchewan and a large part of Manitoba was defined by long flat straight roads, we saw a completely different landscape in the last part of Manitoba and into Ontario. Our last stop in Manitoba, before crossing the longitudinal half-way point across Canada, was Birds Hill Provincial Park just North East of Winnipeg. So far all of the Provincial and National Parks have been great stays, well laid out, largely quiet camping spots with good facilities. We liked our stops in Manitoba and we joked about driving roads that had bends, hills and trees. Birds Hill was huge. Home to the annual Winnipeg Folk Festival , which was being set up as we left. Scrolling through the list of performers I recognized only one - Bruce Cockburn. We've got to know some Canadian folk singers, favourite so far is Stan Rogers (me) and The Janzen Boys (Fred). Tipped off by a good...