Article: Have yearn for yurt?

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The Brandon Sun
Article date:
July 12, 2009
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NUTIMIK LAKE - Manitoba is known for strange ethnic fusions, from foods like "Peking perogies" you find in some Winnipeg restaurants, to Red River jig music that blended early aboriginal-French-Scottish musical traditions.

But mixing the shelters used by wandering Asian nomads with Manitoba's lake experience?

Yurts so good, as far as many Manitobans are concerned.

Yurts are dome-shaped structures that have been popping up around lake country in provincial parks, such as Spruce Woods south of Carberry and Asessippi northwest of Russell.

For more than 30 years, the province has quietly provided "affordable" cottages for people to rent who might not otherwise have the financial means to do so.

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