* The world’s 10th largest freshwater lake
* Seven Manitoba Provincial Parks are located on the south basin of Lake Winnipeg including Hecla/Grindstone, Beaver Creek, Camp Morton, Winnipeg Beach, Elk Island, and Grand Beach.
* Each year, approximately 800 commercial fishers operate on Lake Winnipeg
* Over 23,000 permanent residents live in 30 communities along the shores of Lake Winnipeg.
* The Lake Winnipeg watershed is the second largest watershed in Canada and includes parts of four provinces and four U.S. States.
* The Lake Winnipeg drainage basin is nearly 1,000,000 km2 in size and is home to 5 million people.
* Several rivers flow into Lake Winnipeg including the Red, Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, the Poplar, Berens, Pigeon, Manigotagan, Dauphin, Fisher, and Icelandic rivers.
* Only one river flows out of Lake Winnipeg, the Nelson River.
* Lake Winnipeg, the last remains of glacial Lake Agassiz, lies on the boundary between the low-relief Interior Plains and the southwestern Canadian Shield.
* The surface area of Lake Winnipeg is about 23,750 km3. The lake covers about 3.7 % of the surface area of the Province of Manitoba.
* Lake Winnipeg is about 436 km in length, about the same distance as a drive to Brandon from Winnipeg...and back!
* At its widest point, Lake Winnipeg is about 111 km across.
* On average, the lake is about 12 metres deep but at a point off the north east shore of Black Island, Lake Winnipeg reaches its maximum depth of about 36 metres.
* With its many bays, harbours, and points, the shoreline of Lake Winnipeg is about 1,750 km long.
* The volume of Lake Winnipeg is 284 cubic kilometres (1 km wide by 1 km high by 1 km long), equivalent to more that 6 billion times the volume of a standard 14 by 28 foot backyard pool.
* Beach safety staff estimate that 395,100 people visited Grand Beach during the summer of 2002 while 87,800 made the trip to Winnipeg Beach.
* Over 460,000 people visited Grand Beach Provincial Park during the summer of 2002. In 2003, that number increased to over 609,000 people, up by 32 %!
* In 2001 - 2002, the total value of commercial fish production of Lake Winnipeg was $20,380,350.