Darrell Gebhardt & Associates

The Royal Canadian Mint's proud history reached a new peak in 2007 with the Guinness World Records certification of the largest coin in the world: the masterpiece 100 kg, 99.999% pure $1 million gold bullion coin.

Take a look in your wallet. You may find a coloured Poppy coin from 2004. If so, you're holding a piece of history because it is the first coloured circulation coin in the world!

Over 1 billion circulation coins are minted each year at our high-tech plant in Winnipeg.

St. Leon Wind Energy is a 99 MW wind farm located approximately 150 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg in the town of St. Leon Manitoba. It is the first of its kind in the Province of Manitoba and one of the largest wind energy developments in Canada.

A single wind turbine-generator can generate up to 1.65 MW of power. The turbines start generating at a minimum wind speed of three metres per second, always turning at 14.4 rpm.

A 99 MW wind farm is capable of powering approximately 41,000 homes.

Union Station opened in 1911, and was designed by Warren & Wetmore, the architects responsible for Grand Central Station in New York City.

The trainshed, which includes a total of eight through tracks and four passenger platforms, houses the Winnipeg Railway Museum on two tracks and two platforms.

Union Station extends for some 350 feet along Main Street and is not quite symmetrical.

The exterior walls of Manitoba's Legislative Building and much of the building's interior are Tyndall stone, quarried at Garson, about 20 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.

The Legislative Building is located in the south part of downtown Winnipeg on 12 hectares (30 acres) of magnificently landscaped grounds.

This building is the third used by Manitoba's legislative assembly. The Main Street home of A.G.B. Bannatyne hosted the first assemblies. The second building used stood on the same grounds as the current one.

Seven Sisters Generating Station is Manitoba Hydro's largest producer of electricity on the Winnipeg River in southeastern Manitoba.

The generating station operates at a maximum capacity of 150 megawatts (MW) and can produce, when water conditions are ideal, an average of about 990 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity per average year.

When Seven Sisters had reached 50 years of age in 1979, a major six-year rehabilitation project was conducted to extend its productive life another 50 years.

Did you know that Churchill, Manitoba is the polar bear and beluga capital of the world?

Male polar bears can grow to more than 600 kg (1,320 lbs) and stand 3.05 metres (10 feet) tall.

Prime viewing times are in October and November, when the bears move from their summer habitat on the tundra back to seal-hunting territory.

Whiteshell Provincial Park is a 2,729 km2 park centrally located in Canada in the province of Manitoba. It can be found in the southeast of the province along the Manitoba-Ontario border, approximately 130 km east of Winnipeg.

The name of the park is derived from the cowrie shells that were used in ceremonies by the Ojibway, Anishinaabe, and Midewiwin.

In 1734, Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Verendrye was the first European to explore the area during his quest for a route to the Western Sea.

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