Gimli/Lake Winnipeg Beaches Development

[optimusREIM]

Originally Posted by Hecate

Yup. It’s a brutal setup, why would a company put more focus on the bottling facility than they do the production. Almost like they’re ashamed the most iconic whiskey in the country comes from Manitoba. If that distillery was in any American town, there’d be a massive tour of the facility with a gift shop and all kinds of merchandising as well as a tasting room. And they’d Have customizable bottling right there in shop.

Our floodway is the same way. One of the largest earth moving projects in human history, nothing to celebrate it. anywhere else in the world and there would be a massive interpretive centre with a tower to see the expanse of the floodway off into the distance, a small museum outlying the history of the floodplain and why the floodway was built and the machines used to build it. Along with gift shop and merchandising.

Couldn't possibly have anything that makes us look good ever exist..

[harls]

If they built a 'tasting room' for Crown Royal, imagine the freeway infrastructure it would incur.

[drew]

Originally Posted by esquire

^ I wonder what the economic rationale is for doing it that way vs. just doing it all in Gimli and shipping it out from there? That's a hell of a long way to haul the product just for the finishing stages.

So it's "Toronto, Ontario, Canada" on the bottle and not "Gimli, Manitoba, Canada." That's my only guess.

The website makes it clear where the whiskey is made and aged (Gimli) but you would never know if from the bottles.

[Hecate]

Originally Posted by drew

So it's "Toronto, Ontario, Canada" on the bottle and not "Gimli, Manitoba, Canada." That's my only guess.

The website makes it clear where the whiskey is made and aged (Gimli) but you would never know if from the bottles.

Exactly. There’s no other logical reason for it.

Even look at Manitoba hydro place. This is a building that deserves international recognition. People outside of Winnipeg could care less about it, if it was in Toronto it’d be on tshirts, First leed building of its size in North America, and the third most energy efficient office building in the world. It’s a marvel, right here in our own backyard. Why, when it was constructed, was the hydro museum not moved there? With tours of its efficiencies, gift shop and merchandising? Lol

[cllew]

Originally Posted by Hecate

Yup. It’s a brutal setup, why would a company put more focus on the bottling facility than they do the production. Almost like they’re ashamed the most iconic whiskey in the country comes from Manitoba. If that distillery was in any American town, there’d be a massive tour of the facility with a gift shop and all kinds of merchandising as well as a tasting room. And they’d Have customizable bottling right there in shop.

Our floodway is the same way. One of the largest earth moving projects in human history, nothing to celebrate it. anywhere else in the world and there would be a massive interpretive centre with a tower to see the expanse of the floodway off into the distance, a small museum outlying the history of the floodplain and why the floodway was built and the machines used to build it. Along with gift shop and merchandising.

We do have this for the floodway by the intake structure. Being that it is a govt park it does lack the gift shop but has the viewing platform.

https://www.gov.mb.ca/nrnd/parks/par...tral/duff.html

There was also a Duff Roblin floodway park in E. St. Paul off of Wenzil and PTH 101 that for some reason closed around 2008

[cllew]

Originally Posted by Hecate

Exactly. There’s no other logical reason for it.

Even look at Manitoba hydro place. This is a building that deserves international recognition. People outside of Winnipeg could care less about it, if it was in Toronto it’d be on tshirts, First leed building of its size in North America, and the third most energy efficient office building in the world. It’s a marvel, right here in our own backyard. Why, when it was constructed, was the hydro museum not moved there? With tours of its efficiencies, gift shop and merchandising? Lol

Other than parking being a bit of a pain, I had no problem visiting the Hydro Museum in their old Heritage distribution station on Harrow.

If Hydro did have space downtown it might be nice so see if they could put some of the old King St control panel equipment on display.

[CoryB]

Re Hydro Place. It was built at a time of greatly heightened security for physical infrastructure such as electrical grids. I am honestly a little surprised there were not dedicated elevators put in place to get from ground level to the meeting rooms on, I think, the sixth floor. They could still have an expected visitor list and kept the direct access behind a security desk but then could have signed someone in and let them go up to the meeting floor where their escort could have met them at the sixth floor security desk or had the sixth floor as semi-trusted space instead of the full security level the general building has.

In terms of Crown Royal and bottling, I think the issue might come down to difficulty finding the right level of skilled labour for operations in Gimli combined with limited infrastructure to move finished product to market and lack of local glass manufacturing. Aka are they going to buy bottles from Ontario and ship them to Manitoba and then ship back the finished product?

[dennis]

Some of the already dull shine will be taken off the Gimli distillery.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...lery-in-Canada

[BKB]

Originally Posted by dennis

Some of the already dull shine will be taken off the Gimli distillery.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...lery-in-Canada

They will be starting shortly on building two more barrel warehouses in Gimli with a possible four additional warehouses to follow.

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

quite often when i travel we love to hit up winerys, craft breweries, distilleries, so 100% agree, no idea why more isnt done w Crown Royal being made here in our Province.

FYI a bottle of Crown Royal is cheaper to buy in Minnesota than it is in MLCC stores!

Yeah but think of our great health care system….

[dennis]

Originally Posted by BKB

They will be starting shortly on building two more barrel warehouses in Gimli with a possible four additional warehouses to follow.

But it eill no longer be the source of all Crown Royal in the world.