Winnipeg’s Wealthy Beginnings Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour

See the landmark department store being transformed into Wehwehneh Bahgahkinahgohn, a major Indigenous-led redevelopment.

WAG-QAUMAJUQ. Admire the striking art gallery and its internationally celebrated collection of Inuit art.

MANITOBA ARCHIVES BUILDING. See the stately home of Manitoba’s provincial records and stories.

View the imposing surviving jail building and its sombre place in Winnipeg history from the exterior.

Pass this utilitarian heritage structure that once helped serve the surrounding government complex.

Admire the grand civic architecture of an institution central to Winnipeg’s early growth.

See an elegant early apartment building that reflects Broadway’s fashionable residential era.

Picture the vanished private school through the tour’s historic image at this former-site stop.

Notice the refined architecture of this prominent early Winnipeg office building.

Admire two buildings once counted among Winnipeg’s most luxurious residences.

UNION STATION AND WINNIPEG RAILWAY MUSEUM. View Winnipeg’s grand railway landmark from outside; the museum remains closed during station upgrades.

See Western Canada’s oldest operating private club, founded in 1874.

Pass through the surviving gateway to the fur-trade post that shaped early Winnipeg.

Explore the urban park marking a pivotal site in Winnipeg’s founding story.

Contrast a modern residential complex with Winnipeg’s distinctive revolving tower.

Admire Winnipeg’s landmark château-style railway hotel, an enduring symbol of the city’s boom years.

NAVAL MUSEUM OF MANITOBA. Pass the museum’s exterior and discover Manitoba’s surprising naval history.

See this handsome historic apartment block along Winnipeg’s grand Broadway corridor.

Admire one of the tour’s distinguished heritage homes and the story preserved in its architecture.

See a graceful heritage residence linked to one of Winnipeg’s early prominent citizens.

Admire the beautifully restored Victorian home, now a museum preserving Winnipeg’s early social history.

Meet Scotland’s celebrated poet in bronze on the Manitoba Legislative Building grounds.

Take a short optional detour through a pollinator-friendly garden near the Legislative Building.

See the towering memorial to Manitoba’s Métis leader beside the Legislative Building grounds.

Look up to Manitoba’s iconic gilded figure shining from the Legislative Building dome.

MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE BUILDING. Circle the monumental Beaux-Arts landmark and admire its celebrated architecture from the public grounds.

View the historic stone church that has anchored Broadway since the late 19th century.

Finish beside the statue honouring the Winnipeg-born intelligence legend known as Intrepid.

HISTORICAL PLAQUES. Pause along Broadway to discover markers that preserve the people and events behind Winnipeg’s early prosperity.

MOUNT ROYAL APARTMENTS. View the 1926 brick apartment block at 36 Navy Way, a surviving example of Winnipeg’s early multi-family housing.

IN REMEMBRANCE OF STATUE (NEXT OF KIN MONUMENT). Honour the Winnipeggers who died in the First World War at this solemn Legislative Building grounds memorial.