Winnipeg | Historical discussion - Page 30

metonymy · #**581** Posted **Jan 8, 2009, 4:35 PM**

Donald Street. Designed by George Creeford Brown and constructed in 1899. His most famous designs were the Public Markets Building and Wesley College.

metonymy · #**582** Posted **Jan 8, 2009, 4:44 PM**

Fort Garry Court, also designed by George Brown. 160 Main Street. Burned down in 1970s and demolished. Photos from UofM library.

drew · #**583** Posted **Jan 8, 2009, 4:53 PM**

Cool. Thanks for the info.

It's amazing how much better that corner at Broadway and Main looks without a surface parking lot...

Andy6 · #**584** Posted **Jan 8, 2009, 5:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by drew

Cool. Thanks for the info.

It's amazing how much better that corner at Broadway and Main looks without a surface parking lot...

I'll always remember all that ice hanging off the Fort Garry Court after that fire. It looked so creepy. I think 8 or 10 people died in what might have been the last major fire of the pre-smoke detector era.

metonymy · #**585** Posted **Jan 8, 2009, 6:33 PM**

That terrace post got me thinking of other lost Winnipeg terraces.

Wright's Terrace (1882, demolished 1950s) - Edmonton at St. Mary's

Houlahan's Terrace (1883) - 395-409 Alexander Avenue

Below were posted earlier in this thread
Wink's Terrace (location unknown)

Hutchison's Terrace (location unknown)

O'Brien's Terrace (location unknown)

1ajs · #**586** Posted **Jan 8, 2009, 8:56 PM**

1919 strike

1906 Street Railway Strike

the great aqueduct

Only The Lonely.. · #**587** Posted **Jan 9, 2009, 3:00 AM**

Nice picts 1ajs. I've never seen those shots of the General Strike before.

rgalston · #**588** Posted **Jan 9, 2009, 1:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

1919 strike

Thanks for posting these.

It sickens me to see this great black eye on our city be celebrated 90 years later.

metonymy · #**589** Posted **Jan 9, 2009, 4:52 PM**

Map of royal itinerary, 1939.

metonymy · #**590** Posted **Jan 9, 2009, 4:55 PM**

Winnipeg problems, patterns and influences, 1967.

Biff · #**591** Posted **Jan 9, 2009, 5:19 PM**

^^^ If you read all the little captions it looks like it was written in 2008. I especially like the "Under use of land Dominated by Parking"....yup that is 2009 for ya...

drew · #**592** Posted **Jan 9, 2009, 5:26 PM**

Great finds guys, thanks for posting.

Here is a question, when or why did the Broadway area change from a largely residential area to the one described above with a quasi financial district and other commercial influences?

Crazy that something made in 1969 is still pretty much entirely relevant today. Way to progress Winnipeg!

flatlander · #**593** Posted **Jan 9, 2009, 7:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by drew

Great finds guys, thanks for posting.

Here is a question, when or why did the Broadway area change from a largely residential area to the one described above with a quasi financial district and other commercial influences?

Crazy that something made in 1969 is still pretty much entirely relevant today. Way to progress Winnipeg!

I wonder if that happened roughly at the same time that two way streets were widened to become one way streets? Part of some 'master plan?'

Archiseek · #**594** Posted **Jan 9, 2009, 9:34 PM**

1900 - National Trust Company, Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: George Gouinlock

rgalston · #**595** Posted **Jan 9, 2009, 9:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by flatlander

I wonder if that happened roughly at the same time that two way streets were widened to become one way streets? Part of some 'master plan?'

The route system, street widening and boulevard tree removal, et c. all began south of Portage in the years immediately after WWII. The Master Plan came to halfway fruition in the 1960s and '70s. Planning bosses Bernie Wolfe and Earl Levin had a lot to do with that.

1ajs · #**596** Posted **Jan 9, 2009, 10:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Archiseek

1900 - National Trust Company, Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: George Gouinlock

witch corner is that?
bankers row?

j.online · #**597** Posted **Jan 11, 2009, 5:23 PM**

^ I believe that was at the SW corner of Main & McDermot

newflyer · #**598** Posted **Jan 11, 2009, 8:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by drew

Great finds guys, thanks for posting.

Here is a question, when or why did the Broadway area change from a largely residential area to the one described above with a quasi financial district and other commercial influences?

I believe the city wanted to relocate the downtown district from north of Portage Ave to South of Portage Ave, as the area known today as the Exchange Distrcit was a mixed use area with warehouses and light industrial. Winnipeg wanted to have a downtown worthy of a major metropolis ... sadly thats where the plans fizzled. Broadway today in mostly made up of govrnment offices and small office buildings... with a scatering of residential. the area south of Broadway is realitively heathy ... but the area just north of broadway is still hindered by seas of surface parking lots (ie: aound he Convention Centre)

On the plus side.. the relocation of modern downtown resulted in the large collection of untouched old building now known as the Exchange District.

It is so sad that people are fighting to save surface lots at the Forks... some people don't learn from the past. Large surface lots will not advance downtown.

1ajs · #**599** Posted **Jan 12, 2009, 12:57 AM**

having all the governemt offices on a strip is a good thing though being able to start at one end slowly make your way to the other end

newflyer · #**600** Posted **Jan 12, 2009, 2:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

having all the governemt offices on a strip is a good thing though being able to start at one end slowly make your way to the other end

.. yeah in case you need to file you taxes, file a land title app, apply for a rural grant and collect your welfare cheque .. all on the same day.

How convienent can it get...