{"id":41390,"date":"2024-11-05T16:37:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T16:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41390"},"modified":"2024-11-05T16:37:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T16:37:41","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-winnipeg-history-among-ruins-of-air-canada-window-park-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41390","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (global) doorstep\u2019: Winnipeg history among ruins of Air Canada Window Park demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Corner_Portage_Avenue_and_Main_Street_Winnipeg_Manitoba_by_Photogelatine_Engraving_Co_Commons_Wiki_051124.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Corner_Portage_Avenue_and_Main_Street_Winnipeg_Manitoba_by_Photogelatine_Engraving_Co_Commons_Wiki_051124.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41391\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Corner_Portage_Avenue_and_Main_Street,_Winnipeg,_Manitoba.jpg\">Corner of Portage Avenue and Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba<\/a> by Photogelatine Engraving Co: Publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winnipeg history buffs and heritage organizations are shocked and angered to find pieces of the city&#8217;s past left in ruins during the demolition of the downtown Air Canada Window Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>CBC News writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local historian Christian Cassidy\u2026 discovered the ruins on Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it was first built in 1985, the park incorporated remnants from now-demolished buildings in the city, including two stone columns from the Northern Crown Bank\u2026 and stone balustrades from Devon Court Apartments&#8230; \u2018The most prominent structure in the park was probably the silver cast-iron column from the McIntyre Block, which stood on Main Street from 1899 to 1979\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/heritage-items-destroyed-winnipeg-air-canada-park-1.7331474\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: Corner of Portage Avenue and Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba by Photogelatine Engraving Co: Publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Winnipeg history buffs and heritage organizations are shocked and angered to find pieces of the city&#8217;s past left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,29,49],"class_list":["post-41390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-conservation","tag-heritage","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41392,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41390\/revisions\/41392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}