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May 31, 2019
The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike: Veterans Protest With and Against the Strike
As 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, Heritage Winnipeg is commemorating the year by looking back at the events during this tumultuous period of history that helped shape our city. This article is part of a series of guest posts reflecting on the some of the places that bore witness…
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May 15, 2019
The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike: The Strike Shuts Down Winnipeg
As 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, Heritage Winnipeg is commemorating the year by looking back at the events during this tumultuous period of history that helped shape our city. This article is part of a series of guest posts reflecting on the some of the places that bore witness…
April 24, 2019
The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike: Breaking Point – Contract Negotiations Stall
As 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, Heritage Winnipeg is commemorating the year by looking back at the events during this tumultuous period of history that helped shape our city. This article is part of a series of guest posts reflecting on the some of the places that bore witness…
April 3, 2019
The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike: The Western Labour Conference in Calgary
As 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, Heritage Winnipeg is commemorating the year by looking back at the events during this tumultuous period of history that helped shape our city. This article is part of a series of guest posts reflecting on the some of the places that bore witness…
March 6, 2019
The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike: Population Growth and the Canadian Pacific Railway Station
As 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, Heritage Winnipeg is commemorating the year by looking back at the events during this tumultuous period of history that helped shape our city. This article is part of a series of guest posts reflecting on the some of the places that bore witness…
January 9, 2019
The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike: Walker Theatre Meeting Sets the Stage
As 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, Heritage Winnipeg is commemorating the year by looking back at the events during this tumultuous period of history that helped shape our city. The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike was the largest general strike in Canadian history, with nearly the entire working population of…
December 12, 2018
Winnipeg’s Original Christmas Headquarters: The Imperial Dry Goods Store
Before Winnipeg had Eaton’s, it had the Imperial Dry Goods Store. Built in 1899 by wholesale merchant Robert Jones Whitla, the Imperial Dry Goods Block was one of many buildings under Whitla’s control. Whitla, Irish-born, arrived in Manitoba in 1878 where he began selling dry goods out of a store on Main Street. Four years…
June 6, 2018
Heritage at Risk: The former Carnegie Library – City of Winnipeg Archives
The former Carnegie Library is located at 380 William Avenue, aptly named for the $75,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie, was built in 1905 as the city’s very first public library, and is currently owned by the City of Winnipeg. It was designed in the Classical Revival style by notable Winnipeg Architect Samuel Hooper (appointed provincial architect…
May 16, 2018
A Remnant of Film’s Golden Age: The Uptown Theatre
Many Winnipeggers will remember having birthday parties as a child at Academy Lanes Bowling – making funny nicknames on the machine, bowling the occasional strikes (more rolling into the gutter), and finally upstairs for pizza at dinnertime. Academy Lanes has been a staple of Central Winnipeg for many many years – but the building that…
July 11, 2016
Past Meets Present: Shards of Our Heritage
Over several decades the City of Winnipeg, Heritage Winnipeg, and the Winnipeg Foundation saved shards (pieces of building facades) from numerous historic buildings that were unfortunately demolished. The intention behind saving the shards was that they would one day return to the hands of the people in our city. Shards waiting for a new home….