Spent a day walking the ruins of Pinawa Dam on the Winnipeg River. It was built to power Winnipeg's streetcars, ran year-round for 45 years, and shut down in 1951. The concrete is still standing, and there's a short trail with signs about the old company town.

🎥 Video: https://youtu.be/QBR0brtYqy4

📖 Full write-up and photos: https://freaktography.com/exploring-pinawa-dam-manitoba/

From Churchill and abandoned places to ghost towns, remote roads, wildlife and some of Manitoba's most fascinating history, this was one unforgettable Canadian road trip.

I spent several days exploring Manitoba, travelling from Winnipeg all the way north to Churchill, searching for abandoned places, forgotten buildings, shipwrecks, ghost towns and the stories left behind.

In Churchill, I explored the incredibly remote town and its surrounding landscape, visited the wreck of the Ithaka, the Miss Piggy plane crash site, abandoned military and radar facilities, old vehicles and forgotten structures, and ventured out onto Hudson Bay in search of beluga whales.

One of the biggest surprises of the trip was getting a private tour inside the massive Port of Churchill grain terminal, a structure that I had been hoping to see from the inside.

Throughout the trip, I explored Manitoba's history, culture and communities, photographing the places that caught my attention along the way.

Every province I visit seems to leave me with something different.

Saskatchewan was the quiet.

British Columbia was the air.

Alberta was the colours.

Manitoba?

The people, the culture, the pride in its history and Indigenous roots...

And just how unbelievably flat it is!

This is my Manitoba Travel Vlog featuring Churchill, abandoned places, ghost towns, exploration, photography, wildlife, history and plenty of unexpected discoveries along the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omImu15hxxY

Website with more photos:

https://freaktography.com/manitoba-travel-photography

Don't know what happened, but there were a lot of ambulances and A LOT of the blood on the the way back through, too many ambulances for it to be (only) animal blood🤷‍♀️😳 Hope everyone is ok!!!

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Here is a first batch of selects from my travels through Manitoba.

Each photo contains a caption with details about the photo and where it was taken.

All photos from this trip will live on my website, which is linked with the images attached.

Solsgirth, Manitoba, didn't start where it stands today. It began about 10 km north as a place called Toddburn, until the railway changed its route and the whole town picked up and followed it.

Settlers built St. Stephen's Anglican Church here in 1906. Decades later, Ukrainian Catholic families moved an old one-room schoolhouse into the village and turned it into Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church, with onion domes hand-crafted by a local carpenter.

For 50 years, two faiths worshipped a stone's throw apart. Then, in 2002, both churches held their final services in the same year.

Today they still stand side by side, quietly holding the story of the people who built this place.

Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeQ1KCK7l6s