Walking videos in and around beautiful Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Plenty of gorgeous buildings, parks, sites and of course, dogs! Frequent visits to Downtown Winnipeg and The Exchange District, and highlighting many small businesses along the way.
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Filmed using iPhone X, DJI Osmo Mobile 3, uploads in 4K, lives in 1080 where possible.
Back in the late 80s when I was 14 or 15 years old I liked to go downtown on Saturdays and I would always get off at portage and Main and then start walking through the underground and then up through the skywalks that go along Graham into Eaton’s place and then Eaton into portage place and then I would end at the bay and then go home
Thank you! I started out life in the OZ village till 1983, loved that time. I think the skinny record shop at the start was a used comic book shop with an old German selling in the 60s. Cheers
This reminded me of the many years I spent in Winnipeg growing up. I’ve been in many of those building you walked past on Main Street and also Notre Dame. Some of those old building I could almost smell the mustiness. They mostly lacked good ventilation inside and usually had boilers providing radiator heat. One time many years ago almost all of the core area was heated by a underground core City boiler system providing heat to many buildings in and around the Exchange District.
A lot nicer on main from when I lived there in the mid-seventies. Mostly run down beer parlours and greasy spoons north of the museum and planetarium. The good ole hug n slugs as we used to say. LOL
Wow! I'm from Toronto and lived in Winnipeg from 82 to 89. Main Street sure has changed. I'm blown away by the condos and revitalization that's happened down there. I worked in the Commodity Exchange tower and I used to take a bus from Inkster and Keewatin, back when that area was new. Thanks for the memories and for showing me how the city has changed. Winnipeg will always have a place in my heart.
According to my dad, the bungalow apartments on the right behind the stop sign at the 2:15 mark are meant to mimic the architectural style of similar buildings in 1930's Los Angeles. The complex is even called the Buena Vista apartments, to keep the LA motif going somewhat. www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/buenavistaapartments.shtml legacy.winnipeg.ca/ppd/Documents/Heritage/HeritageResourcesReports/St-Marys-Rd-40-long.pdf
The Bankruptcy and Final Closing of EATON’s Downtown in 1999 was the nail in the coffin for Downtown . And the failure of Portage Place Mall. When I was a Little Girl my Mom Worked at EATON’s Downtown for 28years. In the 1970s& 1980s Winnipeg Downtown was vibrant and Exciting . Many Store , Restaurants and Movie Theatres were all Downtown . Also Nightlife. In the 1990s that started to slide . Today in 2024 it’s not so good anymore .
My great aunt and uncle lived on Ferndale but I think it was one or maybe two blocks further down. I used to go there many times in the sixties and seventies. I also wondered about those little villa flats that you mentioned...they used to all have chimneys that functioned. I alwys thought it would be so cool to go on a tour inside one of them.
Really good video - nice steady camera work, which is much appreciated for those of us walking or running "with" you on a treadmill. We'll be back in Winnipeg for a few days next fall and will undoubtedly walk these streets and areas, so thanks for the preview!
So, this was the very last video you've posted in over 2 years. I'm sure there are other parts of Winnipeg you could have shown since then, but this is it. :(
this is my favourite area of wpg. i used to live in the bldg at 11min24 sec. i love the crisp crunching sound of the snow. i'm glad to see they are not road-salting along here.
wpg traditionally didn't use road salt. it would seem they are using it like crazy in this video. i miss the traditional city bus colours of orange and beige.
Thank you so much. In a way you have finished a dream. I had recurring dreams about Portage and Main but did not realize it until you show it to us. I am so grateful. Blessings.
Now a Vancouver Island girl, it is wonderful to see the neighbourhood where I was raised. Our family home was on Girton Blvd. near the Assiniboine River. I "walked "the streets with you. Thank you so much.
At 9:08 you mentioned that there are some great porches as you pass by the place myself and a lifelong friend had rented from another friend (owner)15 or so years ago .Awesome porch is right,many beers had with many friends on the purple porch.
