Winnipeg Program Schedule
Hotels
We strongly suggest staying at one of the hotels recommended below, all of which are within a 30-minute walk or short taxi to campus. The closest hotels to campus are the Alt Hotel (800 metres), and the Radisson (850 metres). If you have questions about hotels in Winnipeg, please do not hesitate to email the organizers.
Alt Hotel Winnipeg - 310 Donald Street
Delta Hotels Winnipeg - 350 St. Mary Avenue
Hampton Inn by Hilton Winnipeg Downtown - 330 York Avenue
Inn at the Forks - 75 Forks Market Road
Fairmont Winnipeg - 2 Lombard Place
The Fort Garry Hotel, Spa and Conference Centre - 222 Broadway
Mere Hotel - 333 Waterfront Drive
Radisson Winnipeg - 288 Portage Avenue
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.
By air
Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport
2000 Wellington Avenue
Phone: 204.987.9402
By rail
VIA Rail
123 Main Street
Toll Free (Canada and U.S.): 1.888.VIARAIL (842.7245)
By road
In Canada:
- The No. 1 Trans-Canada Highway (east-west) provides direct connection to all major urban centres in the country.
From the United States:
- Manitoba No. 7 South to connect with U.S. Interstate No. 29 and Minnesota No. 94 (border crossing: Emerson).
- Manitoba No. 59 to connect with Minnesota No. 59 and U.S. #2 (border crossing: Tolstoi).
Information sourced from the Tourism Winnipeg website; please visit the site for more details
Getting around UWinnipeg
Use one of our campus maps to navigate around UWinnipeg campus
Parking at UWinnipeg
Short-term parking on campus is available in several locations:
- The Axworthy Health & RecPlex has 100 indoor spots available for casual daily parking. The cost is $4 per hour during the day and a flat $5 for evenings and weekends. (You can access the parkade from Young Street).
- 439 Young Street (behind Wii Chii Waa Ka Nak—the building on Ellice Avenue at Young Street – it is the building with a star blanket painted on the front).
- Lot behind 520 Portage Avenue— (home of Global College, the United Centre for Theological Studies, and Menno Simons College).
- Metered parking on the street and at nearby lots and parkades.
Please see the UWinnipeg parking map for more information