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Originally Posted by Riverman
I did a short stint in high school at Garden City Collegate (was there for awhile but didn't complete grade 10) and at the time it was a newish up and coming Jewish community for people that rejected the establishment of River Heights and Tuxedo.
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Doubtful. It does not vibe with the demographics of Jews in Winnipeg. Many Jews obviously moved from the North End into West K and Garden City (probably after WWII is my guess), but once Jews were allowed to live in Tuxedo, it became a predominantly Jewish area is two decades (Jews were not allowed to live in Tuxedo until the 60s). We also have to keep in mind that the Jewish population has been declining for 50 years in Winnipeg. It's peak was the late 60's, when 20,000 Jews lived here in a city of 500,000 (4% of the population. Today, there are only 12,500 Jews in a city of 775,000 people (1.6% of the population).
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The Cantors of the grocery store fame located there for example. I deeply appreciate the friendships I made there and the understanding I gained of the Jewish community. I didn't know it at the time but the more uppity Jews of the south end referred to the area as Garbage Shitty.
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I worked IN river Heights for a Jewish owned business in the late 90s when I was young. I also worked as a non-Jewish worker at a Jewish Camp in Winnipeg Beach. Not once did I ever hear any Jewish people my age refer to Garden City as "Garbage shitty." And this is coming from someone who had several Jewish friends.