Hello all,
Today I'm excited to share photos of old world architecture in my hometown of Winnipeg. Please see photos attached below. (I didn't take any of these myself, as you can probably tell by the quality.)
These buildings have all been turned into banks, government offices, hotels.. Same as in any other city. I would express my disappointment, but I am not surprised whatsoever at this point. Most of the buildings labelled as "banks" appear to be abandoned, so I fear the city may have good reason to demolish them.
There's one cathedral in there too: St. Boniface cathedral, which only has its façade remaining (shown by the see-through hole). The rest of this cathedral apparently burned down in a fire.
And what's odd is that many of these buildings in Winnipeg only have their façades remaining (e.g. the Red River College building).
Or in other cases, you have buildings which look like a small fraction of something that was once much larger, as if the other 80% has been sliced off. The Birks building is a good example of this.
One of the most famous old world structures here is the Hudson's Bay building, which to this day is used as a clothing store. It's got a big, tacky sign on it that says "Hudson's Bay". I mention this building because it's quite large and relatively intact, and maybe that's how all these buildings would look if they hadn't been sliced at some point in time.
All of these structures are located in downtown Winnipeg, with the exception of one or two. If you live outside the downtown area, then you simply won't see any old world architecture. Besides this one area, Winnipeg is no different from any other city: generic apartment buildings, fast food places, walmarts, malls, and all that good stuff.
Here are a couple photos showing what downtown Winnipeg looks like with all the modern buildings mixed in with the old world structures:
And here are a couple photos from other parts of the city:
Lovely ain't it? There are probably a lot of Winnipeggers who'd be angry at me for coming online and "exposing" our city like this.
I've lived in Winnipeg for about 11 years, most of those years with my family. My family does not live downtown - we live closer to the walmart side of things. However, at one point in time I did have the pleasure of briefly living downtown. Every single day, I got to walk through the streets and enjoy the magical aura given off by the old world buildings, despite the fact that I had no idea what they were or how significant they were at the time. Before 2 weeks ago, I would've never questioned what they tell us these buildings are.. That was before I had ever heard any old world reset theories - before I had even found this forum. I had marveled at these buildings without understanding anything I was seeing.
Anyway.. I mentioned a fire earlier, and it turns out St. Boniface cathedral wasn't the only church building to suffer from a fire:
A look at some of Winnipeg’s dramatic church fires. I wouldn't be surprised if most of those churches were of the old-world style.
Another thing that Winnipeg has in common with every other city is that 99% of its inhabitants would never care about the old world architecture. They probably wouldn't even see much difference between the modern buildings and the old. People simply have no reason to care.
That being said, there are some websites that seem to be dedicated to preserving these old buildings. These websites refer to the old buildings as "heritage buildings."
Heritage Conservation - Planning, Property and Development Department - City of Winnipeg
MHS Resources: Historic Sites of Manitoba
Hermetic Code Tour - Discovering Winnipeg's Ancient Temple
The Official Blog of Heritage Winnipeg
The MHS (Manitoba Historical Society) also has an article on what buildings looked like then vs now:
MHS Historical Features: Winnipeg, Then and Now
Finding these links was exciting for me, but I bet these webpages will give me the same old propaganda about how some Canadian guy built all these splendid structures in the 1800s. I still plan to research the information on these heritage websites, and I will get back to you guys once I've done some more research.
Another thing to note is that Winnipeg has a reputation for being a rough city - a reputation which I believe it doesn't deserve. There's a stereotype here in Canada that bigger cities like Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver are all much better than Winnipeg. I wouldn't be surprised if this was all just propaganda due to the number of old world buildings that still stand in Winnipeg. The downtown area is known for being one of the roughest areas of the city, where all the homeless shelters are located. I wouldn't be surprised if this was also by design.
Winnipeg also has a famous stereotype of being constantly under construction - it's a common joke here. And now with this new Tartarian lens that I've acquired as of 2 weeks ago, I can see why there would be constant "construction" (aka demolition) here in Winnipeg. There's always some kind of construction/excavation going on, near those old world buildings. You'll see/hear machines constantly drilling in that area.
I wanted to get the word out about my city, and maybe someday some of you fellow old-world architecture lovers could come visit, if you're ever interested.
[Note: I know that one building has an inscription which says "Bank of Montreal", but the building in Winnipeg. Same goes for the pic titled "Bank of Nova Scotia".]
Today I'm excited to share photos of old world architecture in my hometown of Winnipeg. Please see photos attached below. (I didn't take any of these myself, as you can probably tell by the quality.)
These buildings have all been turned into banks, government offices, hotels.. Same as in any other city. I would express my disappointment, but I am not surprised whatsoever at this point. Most of the buildings labelled as "banks" appear to be abandoned, so I fear the city may have good reason to demolish them.
There's one cathedral in there too: St. Boniface cathedral, which only has its façade remaining (shown by the see-through hole). The rest of this cathedral apparently burned down in a fire.
And what's odd is that many of these buildings in Winnipeg only have their façades remaining (e.g. the Red River College building).
Or in other cases, you have buildings which look like a small fraction of something that was once much larger, as if the other 80% has been sliced off. The Birks building is a good example of this.
One of the most famous old world structures here is the Hudson's Bay building, which to this day is used as a clothing store. It's got a big, tacky sign on it that says "Hudson's Bay". I mention this building because it's quite large and relatively intact, and maybe that's how all these buildings would look if they hadn't been sliced at some point in time.
All of these structures are located in downtown Winnipeg, with the exception of one or two. If you live outside the downtown area, then you simply won't see any old world architecture. Besides this one area, Winnipeg is no different from any other city: generic apartment buildings, fast food places, walmarts, malls, and all that good stuff.
Here are a couple photos showing what downtown Winnipeg looks like with all the modern buildings mixed in with the old world structures:
And here are a couple photos from other parts of the city:
Lovely ain't it? There are probably a lot of Winnipeggers who'd be angry at me for coming online and "exposing" our city like this.
I've lived in Winnipeg for about 11 years, most of those years with my family. My family does not live downtown - we live closer to the walmart side of things. However, at one point in time I did have the pleasure of briefly living downtown. Every single day, I got to walk through the streets and enjoy the magical aura given off by the old world buildings, despite the fact that I had no idea what they were or how significant they were at the time. Before 2 weeks ago, I would've never questioned what they tell us these buildings are.. That was before I had ever heard any old world reset theories - before I had even found this forum. I had marveled at these buildings without understanding anything I was seeing.
Anyway.. I mentioned a fire earlier, and it turns out St. Boniface cathedral wasn't the only church building to suffer from a fire:
A look at some of Winnipeg’s dramatic church fires. I wouldn't be surprised if most of those churches were of the old-world style.
Another thing that Winnipeg has in common with every other city is that 99% of its inhabitants would never care about the old world architecture. They probably wouldn't even see much difference between the modern buildings and the old. People simply have no reason to care.
That being said, there are some websites that seem to be dedicated to preserving these old buildings. These websites refer to the old buildings as "heritage buildings."
Heritage Conservation - Planning, Property and Development Department - City of Winnipeg
MHS Resources: Historic Sites of Manitoba
Hermetic Code Tour - Discovering Winnipeg's Ancient Temple
The Official Blog of Heritage Winnipeg
The MHS (Manitoba Historical Society) also has an article on what buildings looked like then vs now:
MHS Historical Features: Winnipeg, Then and Now
Finding these links was exciting for me, but I bet these webpages will give me the same old propaganda about how some Canadian guy built all these splendid structures in the 1800s. I still plan to research the information on these heritage websites, and I will get back to you guys once I've done some more research.
Another thing to note is that Winnipeg has a reputation for being a rough city - a reputation which I believe it doesn't deserve. There's a stereotype here in Canada that bigger cities like Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver are all much better than Winnipeg. I wouldn't be surprised if this was all just propaganda due to the number of old world buildings that still stand in Winnipeg. The downtown area is known for being one of the roughest areas of the city, where all the homeless shelters are located. I wouldn't be surprised if this was also by design.
Winnipeg also has a famous stereotype of being constantly under construction - it's a common joke here. And now with this new Tartarian lens that I've acquired as of 2 weeks ago, I can see why there would be constant "construction" (aka demolition) here in Winnipeg. There's always some kind of construction/excavation going on, near those old world buildings. You'll see/hear machines constantly drilling in that area.
I wanted to get the word out about my city, and maybe someday some of you fellow old-world architecture lovers could come visit, if you're ever interested.
[Note: I know that one building has an inscription which says "Bank of Montreal", but the building in Winnipeg. Same goes for the pic titled "Bank of Nova Scotia".]
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