On the way to Wehwehneh: What it takes to transform downtown Winnipeg’s former Bay – CBC

Apr 17, 2023

$130M redevelopment inching forward as title transferred to Southern Chiefs, but financing questions remain

There were only three floors open to the public when the former Bay department store in downtown Winnipeg was shuttered for good in November 2020.

The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Manitoba flagship had been withering for decades, floor closure after floor closure, by the time the COVID-19 pandemic delivered the final death blow.

Above the main floor elevators once stood a broad mural, The Pioneer at Fort Garry, 1861, depicting interactions between settlers and Indigenous people along the banks of the Assiniboine River. The bucolic and somewhat problematic scene was squirrelled away to the Manitoba Museum in 2014.

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