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May 15, 2025
Your Guide to Doors Open Winnipeg 2025
We’re just over one week away from our favourite weekend of the year! On Saturday, May 24th and Sunday, 25th, 2025, explore Winnipeg’s past through open buildings, fun events, and exclusive tours. Volunteers will answer questions while guided tours will maximize the immersive experience. Fascinating history and breathtaking architecture are yours to discover for one weekend a year, completely FREE! Let’s look at some of the best ways to prepare for Doors Open Winnipeg, what events are new this year, and more exciting news!
February 20, 2025
Warehouses, Churches, and Everything In-Between: The Many Faces of our Heritage Preservation Awards
As we lead up to the 2025 Annual Preservation Awards, we’re taking a look at two contrasting buildings with the same purpose, both recipients of a 2024 Heritage Winnipeg Conservation Award.
December 6, 2024
A Year in Review: Heritage Winnipeg’s 46th Trip Around the Sun
As the days get shorter and snow caps the rooftops, it’s only natural to spend time reflecting on the year that’s passed. Before we pull out the garlands and the nutcrackers, we’re taking a moment to look back at Heritage Winnipeg’s many accomplishments in 2024 while looking forward to the year ahead of us.
October 25, 2024
Forty and Fabulous: When Buildings Become Heritage
“Everything old is new again,” was supposedly first said by Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift, who lived from 1667 to 1745, while others have attributed it to a Chinese proverb. Just as the quote suggests, the old words themselves have faded into obsolescence only to rise in popularity and become new again, with one of its…
December 22, 2023
Delivering The Holidays: Winnipeg’s Post Offices
December is a special time of year when regardless of our beliefs, we slow down and connect with people we love. Many of us will go through the ritual of sending Christmas cards, recapping the happenings of the year, and include a picture or two to share with friends and family. It is a tradition…
July 13, 2023
Building Futures: The Finnie And Murray Block
On the western edge of the Exchange District sits a handsome red brick warehouse, built at the height of Winnipeg’s early 20th century prosperity. While the exterior of the Finnie and Murray Block is nearly unaltered since it was constructed over 110 years ago, inside the changes have been dramatic, telling the story of a…
May 19, 2022
Celebrating Neighbourhoods: Doors Open Winnipeg 2022
It’s May, which means Heritage Winnipeg’s favourite weekend of the year is quickly approaching! That’s right, we are happy to say that our 19th annual Doors Open Winnipeg is happening on Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29! After hosting a safe and successful event in September 2021, we are looking forward to celebrating the…
July 8, 2021
Canada Historic Places Days 2021
Step back in time during Canada Historic Places Days! Whether exploring your community in person or traveling across the country virtually, July 2021 is your opportunity to learn about the rich heritage of the many historic places in Canada. Presented by the National Trust for Canada with the support of Parks Canada, Historic Places Days…
February 24, 2021
Heritage Winnipeg’s Annual Preservation Awards: A Retrospective
Since 1985, Heritage Winnipeg’s Annual Preservation Awards (APA) have been held in mid-February, to coincide with now Louis Riel Day and Heritage Week. The APA’s have recognized conservation excellence in historic commercial and industrial buildings including residential homes throughout Winnipeg, by honouring the dedicated owners, community leaders and professionals that undertake these projects and make…
December 18, 2020
Heritage Winnipeg: Farewell 2020!
According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2020 was the Year of the Metal Rat. A symbol of fertility and abundance, rats are also the first animal in the Chinese Zodiac, the start of a new cycle. As 2020 arrived inconspicuously on a cold winter’s night, excited party goers in Winnipeg had no idea what was starting…
October 28, 2020
The Haunting of Winnipeg’s Heritage
Living in an older (and slightly creepier) building does not always mean its haunted, but its not entirely out of the question either… Winnipeg has plenty of haunted structures with equally haunting stories to go along with them, so it would not be surprising if the buildings you pass on the street or happen to…
October 7, 2020
Making History: The 2020 Manitoba Heritage Summit
Heritage belongs to everyone. It roots us in the past, and guides us into the future. It builds bridges and reminds us we belong, uniting us as a community. It pulls on our heartstrings and it gives us hope, all while enriching our day to day lives. It is artifacts and art, stories and songs,…
September 3, 2020
Doors Open Winnipeg 2020: United in Celebration
Are you ready to celebrate Winnipeg’s built heritage? Then you do not want to miss Doors Open Winnipeg 2020, a FREE public event during the weekend of September 12th and 13th! Join Heritage Winnipeg in supporting the historic museums, businesses, religious institutions, arts & cultural centres, and walking tours that strive to protect, conserve, and…
October 2, 2019
Missing Heritage On Main: The McIntyre Block
The 1960s and 70s were not banner decades for heritage preservation in Winnipeg. Scores of historic buildings were torn down in the interest of civic redevelopment – replaced by modernist office towers and, more often than not, drab surface parking lots. Occasionally, some concessions were made (such as the creation of Old Market Square to…
September 10, 2019
Main Street’s Bankers’ Row – An Historically Significant Streetscape
At the close of the First World War an informed pedestrian walking south on Main Street from the gingerbread style city hall to Portage and Main would have marvelled at Winnipeg’s magnificent bank architecture representing most of Canada’s major financial institutions. Along the west side of Main Street our pedestrian would have passed the Union…