AC Page - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Information

Area Coordinator:

Date Formed: 1871

Districts:

Metropolitan Winnipeg is divided into Tuxedo, Assiniboia, Charleswood, St James, St Boniface, Fort Garry, St Vital, Transcona, Kildonan (Old, West, East & North) and Winnipeg City. Within the metro area the districts of: Point Douglas, Armstrong's Point (aka Fauberg St Germain), North End, Norwood, Fort Rouge, Tuxedo Park, Crescentwood, Cordova Heights, St Johns and Elmwood can be found. The city was also divided into census wards 1-6. Ref: Winnipeg in Maps 1816 - 1972; Alan J. Artibase; National Archives of Canada 1975

Articles:

Name	Type	Source
History and Live Theatre in Winnipeg by Barry McCarten	History	Manitoba Historical Society publication 1988, No16
The Archives of La Société historique de Saint-Boniface by Gilles Lesage	History	Manitoba Historical Society publication 1988, No16
A Founding Father of Winnipeg: James Henry Ashdown 1844-1924 by Lorne A. Shropshire	History	Manitoba Historical Society publication 1990, No19
A Trip Through Time in Transcona by Terry Patterson	History	Manitoba Historical Society publication 1987, No13
Influenza by Peter Wilton (The Spanish Ful epidemic of 1918)	History	Manitoba Historical Society publication 1992, No23
Historical Tour - Crescentwood, Winnipeg’s Best Residential District by Rosemary Malaher	History	Manitoba Historical Society publication 1992, No24
Winnipeg’s Selkirk Avenue in 1914 by Abe Padolsky	History	Manitoba Historical Society publication 1993, No26
German Canadians In Manitoba	History	German Society of Winnipeg (Deutsche Vereinigung von Winnipeg)

Books (These books are available via Inter-Library Loan at your local Library)

Winnipeg - Where The New West Begins by Erica Wells (Windsor, 1982, 287 pp)
Winnipeg 100 :One Hundred Year Pictorial History of Winnipeg by Edith Paterson (Minnipeg Free Press, 1973, over-sized paperback, 120 pp)
The Best Possible Face L. B. Foote's Winnipeg by Turnstone Press (1985, 10" x 9", 135 pp)
The Germans in Canada by K. M. McLaughlin (Canadian Historical Association, 1985, 22pp)
Winnipeg : An Illustrated History by Alan Artibase :1972 ; 100 Year pictorial history of Winnipeg
Winnipeg: Heart of a Continent by Christopher Dafoe :1977 ; National Museums of Canada, History of Canadian Cities Series : History and Photos of Winnipeg
WINNIPEG by George Mitchell & Mary Lile Benham :1974 ; Published by the City of Winnipeg on the 102nd anniversary. History and Photos (mostly circa 1974) of Winnipeg
Germans to America 1840 to 1897 by Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby editors (60 vol, primarily USA but many Winnipeg immigrants passed through NY) (Libraries holding these books)

Census Records

The Manitoba Historical Society has a list of Winnipeg streets and which census enumeration district they are in.(For 1911 census but applicable to earlier census')

1881 Canadian Census (searchable-courtesy Familysearch.org)

1901 Canadian Census for Winnipeg, Manitoba (searchable-courtesy AutomatedGenealogy.com)

1906 Canadian Census for Winnipeg, Manitoba (searchable-courtesy AutomatedGenealogy.com)

1911 Canadian Census for Winnipeg, Manitoba (searchable-courtesy AutomatedGenealogy.com)

Churches (German congregations as of 1913)

*Trinity Lutheran Church (Evangelisch-Lutherische Dreieinigkeitsgemeinde) Duffern & Slater then Flora & King	Immanuel Lutheran Church (Evangelisch-Lutherische Immanuel Gemeinde) College & McKenzie	St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Evangelisch-Lutherische St. Paulus Gemeinde) Watt St. at Tweed
Ev.-Lutheran Church of the Cross (Evangelisch-Lutherische Kreuz Gemeinde) Alexanderm NW corner Chambers St	First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Louise Bridge (Erste Evangelisch-Lutherische Gemeinde su Louise Bridge) 418 Tweed St	Christ Lutheran Church (Evangelisch-Lutherische Christus Gemeinde) 592 Aberdeen
Holy Cross Lutheran Church (Heil. Kreuz Gemeinde) 708 McCalman	First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Louise Bridge (Erste Evangelisch-Lutherische Gemeinde su Louise Bridge) 418 Tweed St	Redeemer Lutheran Church (Evangelisch-Lutherische Erloseser Gemeinde) 779 Manitoba
St. John's Lutheran Church (Evangelisch-Lutherische St. Johannes Gemeinde) 370 McKenzie St	First German Baptist Church (Erste Duesche Baptisten Gemeinde) &Monkman	North End Chapel (Nordend Kapelle) Manitoba, SW corner McKenzie
Westside Chapel (Kapelle an der Westseite) 1401 Ross	Zion Reformed Church (Reformierte Zions Gemeinde) Alexander, SE corner Ellen	Salem Reformed Church (Reformierte Salems Gemeinde) Andrews, NE corner Burrows
Ebenezer Church of the Evangelical Association (Ebenezer Gemeinde der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft) 331 Alexander	St Joseph's Church - German Catholic (St. Joseph's Gemeinde) 493 College

(*) Trinity Lutheran Church: Church books 1888 - present; A digital copy of 1888 - 1915 is archived at the GRHS library and is now being indexed.

Cemeteries

Name	Location	Search
Elmwood	88 Hespeler Avenue, Winnipeg	Manitoba Genealogical Society(not on-line)
Brookwood	3001 Notre Dame Ave, Winnipeg	City of Winnipeg Search
St. Vital	St. Vital Park and Bishop Grandin Blvd, St. Vital	City of Winnipeg Search
Transcona	Dugald Road and the east Perimeter, Transcona	City of Winnipeg Search

Letter Archives Search (use "Winnipeg" as your search keyword)

Maps :

1908 & 1920 Maps of Winnipeg Courtesy Manitoba Historical Society. High Resolution
Modern Map of Winnipeg Courtesy Google Maps

Photo Album :

Winnipeg 100 :One Hundred Year Pictorial History of Winnipeg by Edith Paterson (Minnipeg Free Press, 1973, over-sized paperback, 120 pp)
The Best Possible Face L. B. Foote's Winnipeg by Turnstone Press (1985, 10" x 9", 135 pp)

Websites relating to Winnipeg Manitoba :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg - Wikepedia article on Winnipeg

Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1918 Registry - (searchable database) Libraries and Archives Canada

1940 National Registration - (searchable database) Libraries and Archives Canada (Compulsory registration of all adults in Canada from 1940 to 1946)

Canadian Passenger List Indexing Project - (searchable database) Nanaimo Family History Society

Canadian Immigration Records (1925-1935) - (organized by date arriving) ArchiviaNet - Library and Archives Canada

SS Augusta Victoria; Nesselrode, South Russia -> NY -> Winnipeg, April 1890 - Passenger Manifests stored at the US National Archives and available via inter-library loan.

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