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Gathering Activities
Airport Shuttle Volunteers
Airport Shuttle Volunteers
Airport Shuttle Volunteers
Many participants who arrived in Winnipeg by air were driven to and from the gathering site by local volunteers, Jamie, David, Boyd, Monique, Chantal, and Levi.
Camping Details
Airport Shuttle Volunteers
Airport Shuttle Volunteers
Gathering participants were housed in tents and cabins. The weather was pleasant except for a lightning thunderstorm that arrived on the first evening.
Sweat Lodge Ceremony
Airport Shuttle Volunteers
Bannock Point Petroforms
Six sweat lodges were conducted for gathering participants.
Bannock Point Petroforms
Eastern Beaches of Lake Winnipeg
Bannock Point Petroforms
Participants visited the Bannock Point Petroforms, a series of stone figures laid out on bedrock in the forms of turtles, snakes and humans, and also in abstract patterns. Anishinaabe and other First Nations people believe that they were left here long ago for the benefit of all people that might visit this site to receive their teachings and healing.
Eastern Beaches of Lake Winnipeg
Eastern Beaches of Lake Winnipeg
Eastern Beaches of Lake Winnipeg
Participants had the opportunity to visit one of Lake Winnipeg's eastern beaches:
Victoria Beach
Albert Beach
Hillside Beach
Traverse Bay
Belair
Lester Beach
Grand Beach
Grand Marais
Patricia Beach
Beausejour Manitoba
Eastern Beaches of Lake Winnipeg
Eastern Beaches of Lake Winnipeg
Beausejour is a nearby town located in the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead. It is 46 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, just west of the Canadian Shield and Whiteshell Provincial Park. The French name Beauséjour means "beautiful stay".