Festival du Voyageur set for 'world's largest kitchen party'

Festival du Voyageur is inviting you to what it calls "the world's largest kitchen party."

The annual winter festival the largest in Western Canada is set forFeb. 13-22. This will be the 46th version of the long-standing party.

Every winter since 1970, the festival has transformed a corner of Winnipeg's French Quarter into a celebration of voyageur, Metis and First Nations histories.

With the backdrop ofFort Gibraltar, the festival'straditional music, cuisine, costumes,snow sculptures and displays blacksmiths, furs, a trading postbring the past to life.

Activities include horse-drawn sleigh rides, a toboggan slide, snowshoeing tours, rolling maple syrup, a beard-growing contest,concerts and dances.