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Seven Oaks House Museum, Winnipeg s oldest home, tells the story of a family and Manitoba in the 19th century By: Brenda Suderman | Posted: 3:00 AM CDT Sunday, May. 23, 2021 Save to Read Later
Writer Brenda Suderman and photographer Mike Deal continue to share stories and photos from inside the vaults and hidden corners of the city’s community-run museums. Recently they visited Seven Oaks House Museum at 50 Mac St., located midway between Main and Scotia Streets in West Kildonan. Considered the oldest house in Winnipeg, the property was completed in 1853 for John and Mary Inkster and their children. The nine-room Georgian style house, known for its large porches, cedar-shingled roof and symmetrical appearance, housed family members until the death of daughter Mary in 1912, who willed the large property to the City of Winnipeg. The museum operates on donations and a grant from the Cit
Up until last year, it was used as a storage facility for a local furniture retailer.
The building used to welcome visitors who entered Brandon on 18th Street.(Riley Laychuk/CBC)
Alyssa Wowchuk, administrator of the Brandon General Museum and Archives, had a chance to go inside not long before demolition crews moved in. The structure of the building is all very open concept, she said. I want to say it probably looked a lot like what it did during the time of the International Harvester company.
Exposed brick was visible in many areas, some floors were wide open and a few artifacts had been left behind, she said.
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Going back and digging into our history and evaluating truths is a must. We have a responsibility to fully examine who we are and where we came from. This process, however, cannot just be an exercise in breaking out an eraser and scrubbing controversial names off of buildings because we do not necessarily like who they are today through our rose-coloured glasses.
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It is this type of mentality that has led to some cities like Vancouver and Victoria to work toward eradicating our first prime minister from any public visage. It is a form of cancel culture that weakens us as a nation.
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Sorrow came to Russell this week in the form of fire, when a seemingly random act destroyed an historic house full of mysteries, ghosts, family memories and possible future stories.
Dubbed the Red House, 312 Pelly Avenue South in Russell has changed hands a scant four times in the 133 years since William James Barrett-Lennard (1857-1940) moved its bricks by ox and cart from the right bank of Bear Creek to a hill to what is now known as Russell.
The story line goes like this: the Boultons, the Drevers, the Falkevitchs and, most recently, the Flockners.