Getting To and Around Winnipeg

Winnipeg is located on ancestral lands, on Treaty One Territory. These lands are the heartland of the Métis people. Our city is in the centre of North America along the banks of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. By May, Winnipeg is often green and warm and offers a lively restaurant scene, many accessible and affordable hotels, art galleries, museums (including the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, the only federal museum outside Ottawa), and more. Winnipeg features beautiful walking paths along the rivers, an urban and downtown national park (The Forks), the historic Exchange District, and the Classically-inspired Manitoba Legislature, all minutes from the University of Winnipeg’s campus and downtown hotels. We hope you will have time to explore this wonderful city during the conference.

Winnipeg’s airport is a mere 20-minute (and $25!) cab ride from downtown, and it offers connections across North America. At present, one can fly direct to Winnipeg from Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax; and Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, Orlando, and Miami.

American citizens generally require no travel authorization beyond a passport to travel to Canada for a conference. Many other nationalities do not require a visa or travel authorization beyond the inexpensive Electronic Travel Authorization; holding a US visa may also permit you to apply for and receive an Electronic Travel Authorization. Some visitors, however, will require visas, and we recommend investigating these issues as early as possible: see the Government of Canada's Immigration and Citizenship website. We cannot offer advice on these issues, and we cannot accommodate requests to present virtually in any case.