Going Downtown: A History of Winnipeg's Portage Avenue

by Russ Gourluck

Winner of the Manitoba Historical Society 2007 Award for Popular History?/Text>18 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894283651
• ISBN13: 9781894283656
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Great Plains Publications
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.0" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Microcosm of Winnipeg's Ups and Downs

It is interesting to note the startling growth of Winnipeg's downtown along Portage Avenue in the early 20th Century. It is equally saddening to see the gradual decline of the downtown area along Portage Avenue over the past several decades. The decline and ultimate demise of the venerable downtown Eatons store parallels what has happened to Portage Avenue. It remains to be seen whether or not the new MTS Centre hockey arena can revitalize the downtown area, keeping in mind the 1980s attempt to do the same with the Portage Place Mall was a failure. The Portage Avenue downtown area is similar to many mid western USA cities, in that it is almost completely deserted once the daytime white collar workforce has gone home to the suburbs. Still, there is a lot of history here, and even ex Winnipeggers who have moved elsewhere still have good memories of the street that defines their hometown.