Manitoba while additionally in the top 3 women's national champions, as well as multiple world champions in the sport. The province also hosts the world's largest curling tournament in the MCA Bonspiel. The province is regular host to Grand Slam events which feature as the largest cash events in the sport such as the annual Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic as well as other rotating events. Though not as prominent as hockey and curling, long track speed skating also features as a notable and top winter sport in Manitoba. The province has produced some of the world's best female speed skaters
A City in Winter A City in Winter A City in Winter is a novel by American writer Mark Helprin, first published in 1996. Considered a children's novel, it is mixture of war novel and a satire of bureaucracy, telling the story of a 10-year-old queen's quest to regain her throne. All three books in this trilogy, "Swan Lake", "A City in Winter", and the final novel in the series, "The Veil of Snows" abound in winter season atmosphere and fairy tale magic. This imaginative novel continues the story of "Swan Lake", in which an unnamed country girl hears from her beloved tutor the