Festival du Voyageur

February 14th to 23rd 2025

This unique ten-day celebration, reliving the fur trade era, is held each February in St. Boniface, Winnipeg’s French Quarter. It celebrates the joie de vivre of the fur traders. It’s a place of sights, ceremony, and celebration – a reflection of Canada’s unique French-Canadian heritage, and a showcase of historic and cultural treasures. Events include snow sculptures, over 150 shows, an outdoor winter paradise, historic interpretation in a rebuilt fur trade fort, French-Canadian cuisine and lots of ‘joie de vivre’.

The following is a sample tour itinerary:

Friday

Take in the opening ceremonies of the Festival and enjoy dinner at a local restaurant

Saturday

• Pancake breakfast at the Festival’s Sugar Shack
• Visit the Festival du Voyageur winter theme park (entertainment, snow sculptures, sleigh rides, sled dog rides, native encampment, etc.)
• Tour Fort Gibraltar, a nineteenth-century interpretive fur trade fort, where costumed interpreters relive life in the fur trade era
• Lunch at one of the many Festival sites
• Visit the Manitoba Museum, one of Canada’s best museums
• Enjoy a night of entertainment at a Festival site. After a traditional meal (included), toe-tapping entertainment will have you dancing the night away

Sunday

• Enjoy a city tour, including Winnipeg’s French Quarter
• Shop and browse at the Forks Market, Winnipeg’s meeting place
• Lunch at one of the Forks’ restaurants (not included)
• Departure

Email reservations@tourismeriel.com for more details and booking inquiry.