C.P.R. Depot and Royal Alexandra Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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- 1940
Photograph shows Canadian Pacific Railway depot and Royal Alexandra Hotel on Higgins Avenue. Date of photograph is approximate, ca. 1940.
C.P.R. Depot and Royal Alexandra Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Photograph shows Canadian Pacific Railway depot and Royal Alexandra Hotel on Higgins Avenue. Date of photograph is approximate, ca. 1940.
Caption (on file): "Shivering on the corner of Portage and Main on a cold, windy day waiting for traffic lights to change will now be just a memory with the opening of a climate controlled underground pedestrian concourse linking the four corners of Winnipeg's famous intersection."
Allan, Hugh
Aerial view of intersection at Portage Avenue and Main Street
Photograph shows aerial view of intersection at Portage Avenue and Main Street (after barriers closing intersection to pedestrian concourse). Also shows Bank of Nova Scotia (Trizec Building) under construction. Photograph likely taken from the top of the Richardson Building.
Allan, Hugh
Caption (on file): "Residents of Winnipeg who for a hundred years have fought the wintry winds at the corner of Portage and Main will now cross in summertime comfort with the provision of an environmentally controlled pedestrian concourse beneath Canada's most famous corner."
Allan, Hugh
Logan Avenue and Main Street [Aerial view]
Inscription (on recto): A160 3-9-43 Logan Ave and Main St Wpg [Winnipeg] about 4000' 5".
Logan Avenue and Salter Street [Aerial view]
Inscription (on recto): A161 3-9-43 Logan Ave and Salter St Wp [Winnipeg?] about 4000' 5".
Main Street, looking north, Winnipeg, Man.
Postcard showing Main Street looking north from Bannatyne Avenue. Date of postcard is unknown.
Postcard shows a view of Main Street from Portage Avenue looking north. Published by Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co., Ltd. Montreal and Toronto. Printed in Great Britain. Date of postcard is uncertain.
Main Street from top of Royal Bank Building, looking South, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Print shows a photographic image of Main Street looking south from atop the Royal Bank Building.
Postcard shows Portage Avenue, from Main Street looking west. Published by Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co., Ltd. Montreal and Toronto. Printed in Great Britain. Date of postcarcd is uncertain.
Main Street North, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Print is a photographic image of Main Street North. The McLaren Hotel, Hotel Cornwall and C.P.R. Station can be seen in photograph
Corner Portage Avenue and Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Print is a photographic image of the intersection of Portage Avenue and Main Street. Date of print is uncertain, [193-].
Portage Avenue and Main Street looking north
Scrapbook of Corporal Wallace – page 2
Page 2 of a photograph scrapbook made by Corporal John Wallace in April 1940. Photos consist of Portage Avenue looking west from around Vaughn Street, a rail line at Portage Avenue and St. James Street, troops in formation, and Mrs. and Shirley Gardiner. See general notes section for more details.
Wallace, John
Scrapbook of Corporal Wallace – page 9
Page 9 of a photograph scrapbook made by Corporal John Wallace in April 1940. Photographs depict a street in Gladstone Manitoba, a trolley bus in Winnipeg on Kennedy Street (between Ellice and Qu'Appelle), and the Butler family, acquaintances of Wallace. See page three of this scrapbook for more details on the Butler family.
Wallace, John
Scrapbook of Corporal Wallace – page 8
Page 8 of a photograph scrapbook made by Corporal John Wallace in April 1940. Photographs depict the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada near the Raleigh Apartments at Vaughan Street and Ellice Avenue, Memorial Boulevard (likely at Broadway, facing west with the Mall Hotel in the distance), a road outside Fort Osborne Barracks, and Corporal Wallace at the home of “The Dowlings” (likely on Beaverbrook Street).
Wallace, John