WP1922 WPG - (EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET FROM CITY HALL)

Date: Unposted. Likely 1910 (from note in the album this came from).

Publisher / Photographer: The (low) quality of this photograph and the fact that, along with three others, it came from a private photo album indicates that this was likely not a commercially produced postcard, but one taken as a personal photograph by an individual - likely a traveller/visitor.

The scene is likely taken looking east from the steps of the old City Hall. In the foreground are the Volunteer Monument - now adjacent to the Concert Hall, Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Monument - now at the English Gardens at Assiniboine Park, and the backside of the Boy with the Boot statue - now at the entrance to Assiniboine Park's English Gardens.

The following signage is evident on buildings on the far (East) side of Main Street, left to right:

- Foley Bros. Larson
- Open Evenings . New Method Dental Parlors . Operations
- Iroquois Hotel
- Thompson Block (499 Main St.)
- Thompson Undertaker
- MacPherson Fruit Co. (491 Main St.)
- McCarey's
- Blackwood (cover on the horse-drawn wagon)

More on the Volunteer Monument: www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/volunteermonument.shtml

More on the Diamond Jubilee Monument: www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/diamondjubilee.shtml