Winnipeg

People on a busy Main Street during the First World War.

The ruins of Boniface Cathedral.

The Fort Garry Hotel looming over the old gate of Fort Garry. The fort itself was dismantled in the 1880s and only the gate remains.

A funeral procession for Archbishop Louis Phillippe Adelard Langevine leaves St. Boniface Cathedral.

A man poses with his dog team and sled by the old gate of Fort Garry. The sled is labeled Norway.

The first locomotive to arrive in Winnipeg in 1878, the Countess of Dufferin, has been preserved and put on display outside the CPR station.

Looking east on Portage Ave towards Main Street from Carlton during the roaring '20s. Winnipeg's commercial centre of gravity was shifting to this area from Main Street at the time.

The Fort Garry Hotel looming over the old gate of Fort Garry. The fort itself was dismantled in the 1880s and only the gate remains.

People mill about in a snow-covered Main Street during the winter of 1882. The City Hall at the end of the block, which doubled as a 250-seat theatre, would soon be demolished and replaced by the impressive 'gingerbread' City Hall.

A woman stands on the corner of Main and Bannatyne.

A streetcar trundles past the Union Bank Tower, seen at left. The tower is the oldest surviving skyscraper in Canada.

A view of how the "mushroom patch" of early Winnipeg, located at Main and Portage, looked like from Fort Garry.

A fantastically busy day on Main and Portage.

Looking south on Main Street towards some of the banks that gave the strip its moniker.

A view of the west side of Main. Only a handful of buildings survive.

Looking past the new Hudson's Bay department store down Memorial Boulevard towards the Legislature.

Ojibwa people have erected their tipis at the Forks, a type of housing perfectly suited to the harsh conditions of the prairies.

A large group of strikers marches down Portage Ave during the General Strike of 1919.

The Eaton's store on Portage has been decked out with flags and bunting to celebrate the end of World War II in Europe.

A postcard view of the YMCA Building on Portage Ave.