Guest Houses 1910 -Current

The Western Canada Fire Assurance Underwriters’ Association published a map in 1915 showing every building in the area of Winnipeg Beach south of Boundary Creek, the area owned by the CPR. It shows three rooming houses on Railway and Central. The Winnipeg Beach Gazette of July 27, 1934 contains ads for 15 rooming houses, some of which also offered board. And there were other rooming houses which did not advertise, but relied upon word-of-mouth, such as Park-A-While on Park Ave. and Linger-Longer on Grove, operated by sisters for an exclusively Jewish clientele. Several existing heritage cottages have numbers on doors, and/or are subdivided into small rooms, indicating that they formerly functioned as rooming houses.

Source: Manitoba Heritage

Researcher: Wally Johannson