Manitoba: Looking Directly Toward Hudson Bay Near Churchill

The day we were here at Prince of Wales Fort National Historic Site, across the Churchill River from Churchill, there were two polar bears in and out of the river and walking along the shore.

Visitors to that shore and the fort, and guides and masons working at the fort, are guarded every day by men on 4-wheelers with rifles capable of “lethality.”

We never saw those bears and were hurried along into the fort and back again to the boats. The bear danger is not taken casually.