Trappers' Life
February 13 - 17
Celebrate life in the north during the 97th-annual Northern Manitoba Trappers' Festival in The Pas. Test your skills as a trapper during canoe packing, trap setting, moose calling and bannock baking contests. The three-day festival includes an arts and crafts show, a dog race and beard growing contest. For more information call 204-623-2912 or click here.

Quest For Fur
March 15
Relive the early days of Canada's fur trade during the Hudson Bay Quest, a 330-kilometre dog-sled race from Gillam to Churchill in Northern Manitoba. This traditional, self-sufficient sledding expedition traces the history and route of the fur trade used by The Hudson’s Bay Company and Churchill-area traders. For more information call 204-675-2887 or click here.

Churchill's polar bears are a bunch of bruisers. While females tend to cubs, young males kill time wrestling, pawing and playfully pummeling each other in a 'sparring' ritual. Researchers don’t yet know the reasons behind the feats of strength and brawn but one thing’s for sure—polar bear sparring is a spectacle everyone should see. [READ STORY]

Home owners transform their living rooms into concert halls during house concerts performed by touring indie rock, folk, roots and blues acts. [READ STORY]

Loaded with fur pelts caught on traplines across northern Manitoba, modern-day trappers descend on Thompson every year to sell their wares to the highest bidder. The Thompson Fur Table connects aboriginal trappers, visitors and buyers to Canada's fur-trading roots. [READ STORY]