This is a thread to discuss Winnipeg's history, which has seemed to seep into discussion on other threads a number of times recently. Western Canada's oldest city, and one with an exciting history, I thought it deserved a thread of its own.
So, if you're excited about the Corydon streetcar line, think the Paris Building is going to give Portage Avenue a real boost, or excited that the Casa Loma will give Winnipeg another apartment building that exceeds three storeys, post here!
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At
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/data/census/1911/winnipeg/ there is a list of hotels in Winnipeg in 1911, which by my count, is a remarkable 84 hotels across the greater Winnipeg area. Today 14 of them are still in operation, though some have different names, and one with a new building. They are:
1) Mariaggi
McDermott [McDermot] corner Albert and Arthur
2) Northern
826-828 Main
3) Occidental
631 Main
4) Ontario
860 Main
(Now the Yale)
5) Richelieu
114 Higgins
(Now the King's, but would be more appropriately titled the Queen's)
6) Riverview
322 Nairn (Elmwood)
7) Stock Exchange
910 Logan
(Now in modern, motel-style building)
8) Sutherland
785 Main corner Sutherland
9) Vendome
308 Fort
10) Wellington
287 Garry
(Now the Garrick)
11) West
786 Main
(Now the "New" West)
12) Winnipeg
214-216 Main
13) Wolseley
186-188 Higgins
(Now named the Mount Royal. "Wolseley Hotel" is still inscribed in stone below the cornice)
14) Woodbine
466 Main
Absent from this list, though I'm certain they were in operation in that year, the Bell, the Windsor and the McLaren.
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