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Monday 9 September 2024

My Winnipeg Free Press Community Review Columns

 
I have been writing a local history column called "What's in a Neighbourhood" in in the Free Press Community Review since July 2021. Here are links to my work. Also be sure to see my Real Estate News columns and Winnipeg Free Press columns!

Winnipeg's Civic Clock turns 50

Downtown's Port-a-Parks of the 1970s

Rainbow Stage's 70th Anniversary

Downtown Winnipeg's biggest fire

Charles Barber designed early Winnipeg's skyline

Winnipeg's inception a violent, messy affair

Downtown's Christmas lights date back nearly a century

Valour Road's forgotten hero

J P Robertson founded city's library system

Exhibit tells story of Manitoba's building blocks


Odeon Park to lose 'island' status


The demise of the Highland Park subdivision

WHAT'S IN A STREET NAME?

How Metro Route 90 became Lagimodiere Boulevard

The U of M's 'Avenue of Elms'


Winnipeg's short-lived numbered street system

Online archive offer glimpse of the past

A tale of two perimeter roads


Elmwood's annexation cost it many street names

Family waits 40 years to redress street name change

Did Winnipeg name any streets after Titanic victims?

The problem with Cecil Rhodes

Arlington Street's great lengths


When Portage Avenue was known as Queen Street

Main Street could have been Victoria Street

The origins of Winnipeg's Metro Route system

The women in Winnipeg's Street names

The wartime origins of some Winnipeg street names

Downtown's one-way street system turns 65

Make sure your beer's delivered to the right address - July 5, 2021

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