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The 14 storey Art District renderings above. Taking over a parking lot and retail strip mall containing Perth's and Dessert Sinsati...

Winnipeg emergency services in deadly winters cold is a pretty miserable task. And a deadly one as well. Over the years Winnipeg firefight...

The Exchange side of Lombard is like a movie set except in Winnipeg's case, the facade is not a few feet deep. Each building on the no...

Winnipeggers have been very protective of The Forks and how it is has grown. The area surrounding as well as had its controversies. The Go...

Gymboree across North America are set to close after going into bankruptcy.  Once again an American company saddled with debt from a ill c...

In the 1960s it was so hard to get a parking space on Portage Avenue. Well, not really. This picture was taken across the street from wh...

Seasons of Tuxedo continues to fill in month after month. While the focus has been on the Outlet Collection of Winnipeg mall, the surround...

In 1965 Portage and Main had two billboard clock. The first was a Coca Coca clock where the Richardson Building is now and could be seen t...

I had not seen Blade Runner 2049 when it first came out. Thanksgiving weekend in Canada is not as busy as the U.S. but it is busy enough. ...

The massive amount of reconstruction along St. James is the aftermath of Canada Inn Stadium being demolished and the land redeveloped. The...

For many decades Portage and Main was not exactly iconic in look. There was certainly the majestic Bank of Montreal branch pointed at the ...

On November 11, the sheer joy about the end of World War I swept Winnipeg as it did much of the country. Although there was much pride in ...

Salisbury House is a Winnipeg tradition and used to be right downtown. The first one in 1931 was just off Portage and Main and had what be...

This photo had been identified as 1967 but no evidence of Eaton's Polo Park under construction and completed in 1968 nor of the Winnip...

Since 1987 SK8 has operated in Winnipeg as one of the go to places for skateboarding in Winnipeg. The people who owned the store didn'...

It is tough to be in the restaurant and bar business in Winnipeg. Coming on the heel's of Pete's Place closing less than a year af...

For over 40 years Mike's Place was a fixture as old style men's barber shop on the south side of Portage Avenue east of Ferry Road...

It first started off with Mercedes Winnipeg opening not just a dealership but a large collision center at Kenaston and Rothwell. The deale...

On Southern Portage Avenue in the 1960s, the Winnipeg Supply clock let everyone know it was time to be dressed up like Mad Men and Women f...

Latinos Market just open on Osborne in the Village just as a year ago. The population of from Latin America in Winnipeg is small and numbe...