Winnipeg’s Wealthy Beginnings Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour
Winnipeg, Canada
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Product ID: 1344
2 hours 30 minutes
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Offered in: English and 1 more
Explore Winnipeg’s historic Broadway and Memorial district on a flexible GPS-guided audio walking tour. Stories play automatically as you follow the 2.5 km route past grand buildings, monuments and leafy boulevards.
Highlights include WAG-QAUMAJUQ, MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE BUILDING, UPPER FORT GARRY, MANITOBA CLUB, FORT GARRY HOTEL and UNION STATION. Hear how wealth, politics and railway growth shaped the city.
Start whenever you like, pause for photos or museum visits and finish at your own pace. Download before you arrive; no mobile data or signal is needed during the tour.
- No time constraints, take as long as you like to complete the tour
- Download on WIFI before (no signal required or data used during tour)
- Live GPS map shows route & your location
- Flexible dates - tour is yours to keep and enjoy anytime on Tripvia Tours.
- Tour guide commentary automatically plays at each point of interest
- Attraction tickets
- Headphones (optional - audio will play from device speaker too)
- Smartphone or tablet
- WINNIPEG RAILWAY MUSEUM: closed for Union Station upgrades; exterior viewing only.
- FORMER HUDSON’S BAY BUILDING: redevelopment underway; exterior viewing only.
- Parking fees
- In-person tour guide
Meeting point
Memorial Boulevard & Portage Avenue, Memorial Blvd & Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3C 0E8, Canada
Tour starts at the iconic Hudson's Bay Building, one of 6 original departments stores in Canada.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.
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FORMER HUDSON’S BAY BUILDING. See the landmark department store being transformed into Wehwehneh Bahgahkinahgohn, a major Indigenous-led redevelopment.
Duration: 5 minutes
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Winnipeg Art Gallery
WAG-QAUMAJUQ. Admire the striking art gallery and its internationally celebrated collection of Inuit art.
Duration: 5 minutes
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Manitoba Provincial Archives
MANITOBA ARCHIVES BUILDING. See the stately home of Manitoba’s provincial records and stories.
Duration: 5 minutes
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FORMER VAUGHAN STREET JAIL. View the imposing surviving jail building and its sombre place in Winnipeg history from the exterior.
Duration: 5 minutes
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POWER HOUSE BUILDING. Pass this utilitarian heritage structure that once helped serve the surrounding government complex.
Duration: 2 minutes
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LAND TITLES BUILDING. Admire the grand civic architecture of an institution central to Winnipeg’s early growth.
Duration: 5 minutes
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DEVON COURT APARTMENTS. See an elegant early apartment building that reflects Broadway’s fashionable residential era.
Duration: 5 minutes
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TUCKWELL’S SCHOOL FOR BOYS. Picture the vanished private school through the tour’s historic image at this former-site stop.
Duration: 5 minutes
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MONARCH LIFE BUILDING. Notice the refined architecture of this prominent early Winnipeg office building.
Duration: 5 minutes
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KENMORE AND PRINCETON APARTMENTS. Admire two buildings once counted among Winnipeg’s most luxurious residences.
Duration: 5 minutes
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Winnipeg Railway Museum
UNION STATION AND WINNIPEG RAILWAY MUSEUM. View Winnipeg’s grand railway landmark from outside; the museum remains closed during station upgrades.
Duration: 5 minutes
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MANITOBA CLUB. See Western Canada’s oldest operating private club, founded in 1874.
Duration: 5 minutes
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UPPER FORT GARRY FRONT GATE. Pass through the surviving gateway to the fur-trade post that shaped early Winnipeg.
Duration: 5 minutes
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UPPER FORT GARRY PROVINCIAL HERITAGE PARK. Explore the urban park marking a pivotal site in Winnipeg’s founding story.
Duration: 5 minutes
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FORT GARRY PLACE AND PRAIRIE 360. Contrast a modern residential complex with Winnipeg’s distinctive revolving tower.
Duration: 5 minutes
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FORT GARRY HOTEL. Admire Winnipeg’s landmark château-style railway hotel, an enduring symbol of the city’s boom years.
Duration: 5 minutes
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Naval Museum of Manitoba
NAVAL MUSEUM OF MANITOBA. Pass the museum’s exterior and discover Manitoba’s surprising naval history.
Duration: 5 minutes
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PATERSON BLOCK. See this handsome historic apartment block along Winnipeg’s grand Broadway corridor.
Duration: 5 minutes
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GLINES HOUSE. Admire one of the tour’s distinguished heritage homes and the story preserved in its architecture.
Duration: 5 minutes
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GILROY HOUSE. See a graceful heritage residence linked to one of Winnipeg’s early prominent citizens.
Duration: 5 minutes
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DALNAVERT MUSEUM. Admire the beautifully restored Victorian home, now a museum preserving Winnipeg’s early social history.
Duration: 5 minutes
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ROBERT BURNS STATUE. Meet Scotland’s celebrated poet in bronze on the Manitoba Legislative Building grounds.
Duration: 5 minutes
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BEE BETTER MANITOBA BUTTERFLY GARDEN. Take a short optional detour through a pollinator-friendly garden near the Legislative Building.
Duration: 5 minutes
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LOUIS RIEL STATUE AND FOUNTAIN. See the towering memorial to Manitoba’s Métis leader beside the Legislative Building grounds.
Duration: 5 minutes
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THE GOLDEN BOY. Look up to Manitoba’s iconic gilded figure shining from the Legislative Building dome.
Duration: 5 minutes
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Manitoba Legislative Building
MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE BUILDING. Circle the monumental Beaux-Arts landmark and admire its celebrated architecture from the public grounds.
Duration: 5 minutes
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ALL SAINTS’ ANGLICAN CHURCH. View the historic stone church that has anchored Broadway since the late 19th century.
Duration: 5 minutes
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SIR WILLIAM STEPHENSON MEMORIAL PROVINCIAL PARK. Finish beside the statue honouring the Winnipeg-born intelligence legend known as Intrepid.
Duration: 5 minutes
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Winnipeg
HISTORICAL PLAQUES. Pause along Broadway to discover markers that preserve the people and events behind Winnipeg’s early prosperity.
Duration:
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Winnipeg
MOUNT ROYAL APARTMENTS. View the 1926 brick apartment block at 36 Navy Way, a surviving example of Winnipeg’s early multi-family housing.
Duration:
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Manitoba Legislative Building
IN REMEMBRANCE OF STATUE (NEXT OF KIN MONUMENT). Honour the Winnipeggers who died in the First World War at this solemn Legislative Building grounds memorial.
Duration:
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Wheelchair accessible
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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