WINNIPEG — Winnipeggers have been doing business at the intersection of Portage Avenue and Main Street since before Winnipeg existed.
Commerce started at the intersection when Henry McKenney built a store at the intersection of east-west and north-south cart tracks.
Today, the intersection boasts Winnipeg’s tallest buildings, as well as a reputation as Canada’s windiest and coldest intersection — an unverified claim made doubtful by the tall buildings surrounding the landmark spot, which both slow the wind and create an urban heat sink.
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Take a walk through more than a century at Portage and Main in our photo gallery, which starts with an 1870 watercolour and proceeds to today’s intersection, with the controversial barricades erected in the 1970s.
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