Marvelous meetings in Canada's heartland province.

From city streets to country trails, Manitoba offers many attractive choices for your meeting agenda. Canada's heartland province is an ideal location for meetings and conventions. Enjoy excellent meeting and exhibition spaces, quality accommodations, and superb dining - all at competitive prices. In fact, some of Manitoba's best features have no price tag at all. Our years of expert convention experience, outstanding service, and genuine hospitality are yours with our compliments.

Winnipeg, Manitoba's capital, was the first Canadian city to develop a convention complex. Since then, 25 years have passed with Winnipeg and Manitoba hosting more than a million-plus convention delegates.

Classy Convention Facilities

The Winnipeg Convention Centre fills an entire square city block in downtown Winnipeg and is adjoined to one of the city's finer hotels. It features three floors of well-designed convention, meeting, and exhibit space. The third floor offers 78,000 square feet of pillarless exhibit space with a ceiling high enough to accommodate a 50-foot sailboat mast. It can host a meeting of 7,200 delegates theatre-style or a banquet for 5,000. Thirteen smaller seminar rooms can be used individually or joined to hold an additional 2,500 delegates. There are 4,500 hotel rooms to serve the meetings market in Winnipeg.

Besides the downtown convention centre, Manitoba offers several convention resorts. Two hours away from Winnipeg in Hecla Provincial Park, Gull Harbour Resort and Conference Center has an Icelandic-design central lodge with all the amenities attendees look for including comfortable, spacious rooms; a recreation wing with a gymnasium, swimming pool, whirlpool, and sauna; tennis courts; a par-72, 18-hole golf course along the shore of Lake Winnipeg; and miles of sandy beaches. Gull Harbour has 93 luxury rooms including four executive suites and 5,500 square feet of meeting space.

The Elkhorn Resort and Conference Centre located next to Riding Mountain National Park has 80 rooms for groups up to 200. Open year-round, this 150-acre resort features lodge-style rooms with fireplaces and chalets with fully equipped kitchens and sundecks with gas grills.

For a city-style meeting in the relaxed atmosphere of a rural setting, Brandon is hard to beat with its hotels, shops, dining establishments, and gently rolling landscapes. The Keystone Centre, one of Canada's largest indoor complexes, is the focal point of Manitoba's second-largest city and regularly hosts international events and sporting competitions.

Countless unspoiled lakes and vast forests provide exciting wilderness adventures. Hold a meeting amid natural surroundings. Fish for trophy-size fish and sample the mouth-watering, sizzling shore lunches. Test whitewater-rafting skills or go wilderness canoeing. Hike through a forest and photograph abundant wildlife. Enjoy the creature comforts of home in the meeting facilities at Manitoba's lodges and resorts.

After-Hours Activities

After your meeting or convention, take time to discover the beauty of Winnipeg. Located at the junction of two historic rivers - the Red and the Assiniboine. Winnipeg has a wealth of history, an appreciation for natural beauty, a plethora of recreation opportunities and rich cultural events.

Attractions range from the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden in Assiniboine Park and The Forks - a waterfront shopping, dining area with a theater, museum, boat and walking tours to the Winnipeg Art Gallery with one of the finest Inuit art collections, the Royal Canadian Mint, and much more. The Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra astound audiences each year with brilliant works.

Entertainment activities include the McPhillips Street Station and Club Regent casinos, horse racing, dinner theatres, comedy clubs, riverboat cruises, and more than 900 restaurants.

With more than 150 parks and 100,000 lakes, some of the best fishing lodges in the world are found here in the province. Enjoy some of the finest beaches in North America - just an hour's drive from downtown Winnipeg. Discover the parks and golf, hike, nature watch, and relax at a resort. Travel north to the Hudson Bay and visit Churchill, home to beluga whales and polar bears.