WP2144 WPG - WINNIPEG LOOKING EAST

nobody@ipernity.com (Canafornian) — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 03:20:55 +0000

POSTCARD

Date: Posted October 15, 1914 from Winnipeg to Iceland.

Publisher / Photographer: Lyall Commercial

Notation: A great view east from the McIntyre building across Portage. Three main buildings (left to right) the Union Trust Building, The Merchants Bank Building, and the Grain Exchange Building.

Small sign on the Union Trust Building reads: "For Office Space - This Building - Apply Union Trust Co. Ltd. - Ground Floor".

WP1892 WPG - MAIN STREET WINNIPEG (LK. N FR. PORTAGE)

nobody@ipernity.com (Canafornian) — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:35:34 +0000

Canafornian has posted:

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Date: Not evident. Unposted. Likely 1911 - see below.

Publisher / Photographer: Lyall Commercial, Winnipeg

Notation: Nice animated scene with a combination of transportation modes - walking, streetcars, bicycles, automobiles and horse-drawn conveyances. The Streetcar on the left is #190 and on the St. Boniface run and the one on the right, #132, is on the Broadway run. The usual Portage & Main policeman is to the front right of streetcar #190.

Of particular interest in the image:
* To the right, on the east side of Main Street, the open girders are the framework for the Union Trust Building at the Lombard intersection. This would date the image being taken either in the fall of 1911 - or the spring of 1912, when the earliest construction took place.

Further information on the Union Trust Tower / Union Tower Building found at: www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/Documents/Heritage/ListHistoricalResources/Lombard-191-long.pdf

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WP2144 WPG - WINNIPEG LOOKING EAST

WP1892 WPG - MAIN STREET WINNIPEG (LK. N FR. PORTAGE)