Leif Norman photographer
full time arts and culture photographer in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
Jane’s Walk, Winnipeg, Wolseley 1912, May 5 2012
Winnipeg Walks:
Wolseley 1912
Guided by George Tacik
Date Saturday, May 5, 2012
Start Time 10:00 am
Duration 2 hours
The walk is about a portion of Wolsely as it was a hundred years ago, in 1912, at the height of a boom period when Winnipeg was the third largest city in Canada and was promoted as the Chicago of the North. It starts at Westminster United church, then goes west along Westminster Avenue, south along Walnut Street, east along Dundurn Avenue, south along Maryland Street, west along Wolsely Avenue, north along Chestnut Street, and west along Honeyman and Knappen.
Jane’s Walk is a series of free neighbourhood walking tours that helps put people in touch with their environment and with each other, by bridging social and geographic gaps and creating a space for cities to discover themselves.
Since its inception in 2007, Jane’s Walk has happened in cities across North America, and is growing
internationally.
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building. She had no formal training as a planner, and yet her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduced ground-breaking ideas about how cities function, evolve and fail that now seem like common sense to generations of architects, planners, politicians and activists.
