Is There a Future for Winnipegâs Landmark Department Store?
The Hudsonâs Bay Companyâs now-closed downtown department store is surrounded by warm memories â and significant challenges in a post-pandemic world.
Published Jan. 1, 2021Updated Jan. 7, 2021
While it was already on death row, Hudsonâs Bay Companyâs presence in downtown Winnipeg ended with unexpected abruptness. After announcing that its much diminished former flagship outlet would be shut in February, the retailer permanently locked the doors of the 600,000-square-foot store at the end of November. Less than two weeks later, a crew arrived and stripped it of its signs.
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Fire at historic McKenzie Seeds building in downtown Brandon causes only minor damage
Smoke poured out of a vacant seed packing facility in Brandon, Man., Wednesday night after a fire broke out on the building s third floor, but the damage was relatively minor, a fire department official says.
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Posted: Dec 24, 2020 9:28 AM CT | Last Updated: December 24, 2020
Firefighters put out a small fire on the third floor of the McKenzie Seeds building in downtown Brandon, Man., on Wednesday night.(Riley Laychuk/CBC)
Smoke poured out of a vacant seed packing facility in Brandon, Man., Wednesday night after a fire broke out on the building s third floor, but the damage was relatively minor, a fire department official says.
Add heritage experts to Winnipeg Hudson s Bay building advisory committee, group asks mayor
A group representing Manitoba’s provincial heritage agencies is urging Winnipeg’s mayor to add it to a committee struck last week to help decide the fate of the city’s historic downtown Hudson’s Bay building.
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Committee should be as well rounded as the uses it imagines for the building: historical society president
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Posted: Dec 21, 2020 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 21, 2020
The Hudson s Bay Co. building on Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard opened on Nov. 18, 1926. The company officially closed the location on Nov. 30, 2020.(Tyson Koschik/CBC)
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Gordon Goldsborough, president and head researcher with the Manitoba Historical Society, says he doesn’t believe the exclusion of historical perspectives was deliberate in the creation of the Bay Downtown Advisory Committee, but he does hope the omission can be corrected.
Historical societies in the province are knocking on the door, asking to be included in the newly-minted committee considering the future of downtown Winnipeg’s Bay building.
Historical societies in the province are knocking on the door, asking to be included in the newly-minted committee considering the future of downtown Winnipeg’s Bay building.
Sign of the times: The Bay s illuminated name goes dark, comes down from Portage Avenue landmark
Friday marked the end of an era in downtown Winnipeg as the Hudson s Bay Company sign was removed from the top of the six-storey building the corner of Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard.
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