Summary
What's wrong with that? As hidden away as it is, I've been aware of the gate all my life. I've seen it on crests, stationery and promotions for as long as I can remember, and not just because I grew up in Fort Garry and identified with the gate far more than I ever have with Lower Fort Garry, the big impressive tourist attraction at Selkirk that I assure you I have visited less often than I have the little "forgotten" gate.
Winnipeg is filled with places where some things of significance took place. By that criterion we should be building interpretive centres everywhere in Winnipeg, starting, perhaps, by turning Main Street into a pedestrian mall lined with "interpretive" kiosks and peopled with actors in period costumes representative of the entire history of the city. And damn the costs. It's history!Which is not to say that it can't be improved upon. But does linking it with coloured pavements and planters and fake "period" buildings and carefully scripted "factual" story boards and maybe rides in York boats accomplish that? I think not.See the full content of this document
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Bigger Isn't Better
Friends of Upper Fort Garry could learn from Brussels
Gerald FloodHAD a call recently from a reader who said the Free Press should be ashamed for promoting the construction of a condominium project on the north bank of the Assiniboine River but neglecting to say tha...See the full content of this document
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