West End Dumplings

Local history and urban thoughts from a West End Winnipegger

Friday, 9 January 2026

Farewell, Eatons Catalogue

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  My latest Free Press Community Review column looks back at the history of Eaton's catalogue. It was 50 years ago this month that the ...
Thursday, 8 January 2026

Remembering Chan's Café and Chan's Moon Room (1941 - 1974)

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    © 2025, Christian Cassidy It is always fun to travel back to Winnipeg's post-war nightlife of big bands and supper clubs. When a mem...
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Sunday, 4 January 2026

West End Dumplings Turns 18!

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West End Dumplings is old enough to drink! Back in 2008, I started blogging after contributing information to a Winnipeg discussion forum fo...
Friday, 2 January 2026

Streisand visit turns 65!

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It has been 65 years since a 19-year-old Barbra Streisand appeared at Winnipeg's The Towers nightclub on Kennedy Street in July 1961. Fr...
Tuesday, 30 December 2025

Wolseley's Chesway Apartments reopen!

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I recently toured the newly reopened Chesway Apartments at Chestnut Street and Honeyman Avenue in Wolseley. It went from a fire damaged bloc...

Farewell, Old Bank Groceteria

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It is sad to see the former Old Bank Groceteria at 1521 Logan burned and boarded up. It was built in 1906 as one of the Canadian Bank of Com...

Remembering the McIntyre Block

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Winnipeg loves its surface parking lots, and one of its most noticeable nudges its way closer to being a half-century old this year. The McI...
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