Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

We would like to tell you a bit about our community, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada. Carberry is a small town of about 1200 people. We are located near the trans Canada highway, about 200 km from the capital city, Winnipeg.

Most of the children at out school are from the country, and they ride the bus to school. We have an elementary school with about 300
students, and a High School that has about the same number.

The main thing that we farm around Carberry is potatoes. We grow lots of potatoes and take them to the potato plant just outside of town. It is called Midwest Foods. They make french fries to sell to McDonald's restaurants in western Canada.

Carberry is close to a provincial park called Sprucewoods Park. It got that name because lots of spruce trees grow in the area. We also have maple trees, poplar trees and elm trees. It is fun to go to Sprucewoods Park because you can do things like hiking, canoeing, swimming, and mini-golf. In the winter you can go sledding, skating, cross-country skiing and skidooing. One of the things that Sprucewoods Park is known for is its desert. Yes, we have a desert in Manitoba, in the middle of the prairies. That is very unusual, so lots of people come to hike in the desert. If you are lucky you might see a snake or a skink (that is a type of lizard).

Manitoba has many interesting animals. Some of them are deer, moose, bear, lynx, cougars, fox. porcupine, bison, beavers, skinks, and squirrels. One animal you can see in northern Manitoba is the polar bear, but that is very far from here.