Home Playground's Big Renovation

 

What is now known as "Home Street Playground" at Sargent Avenue and Home Street has served the community for 79 years. It is currently undergoing major renovations that include a new lawn, playground equipment, and wading pool. The only items to stick around are some older trees and what is likely the original pool building.

The completion date was to have been July 1, but due to the wet spring, it has been pushed back to July 21.

September 13, 1947, WInnipeg Free Press

Kiwanis partnered with the city in the mid-1940s to fund the construction of several playgrounds that it would then turn over to the city to maintain and offer summer programming in through its parks staff. 

This playground cost $5,000, including the wading pool, and was officially opened on September 14, 1947, by George Jackson, president of the Kiwanis Club of Winnipeg, and Mayor Garnet Coulter.

For more about the post-war Kinsmen Playgrounds.