Canafornian's photos with the keyword: st. boniface

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Not Posted. Publisher / Photographer: Lyall Commercial

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Not Posted. Publisher / Photographer: Lyall Commercial. Notation: This photograph appears to have been used to produce the colour lithograph card "Interior of St. Boniface Cathedral" by Valentine & Sons (#106344), seen below:

POSTCARD Date: April 1916. Not Posted. Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified Notation: Of particular interest is the streetcar seemingly stranded on the bottom right of the image and the very long elevated wooden sidewalk that cuts diagonally across the picture and parallels the submersed streetcar tracks.

POSTCARD Date: Posted March 16, 1927. Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified. Notation: One of the few early postcard images I have seen that prominently shows the railway yards that occupy what we now known as "The Forks". As a bonus, the St. Boniface Cathedral is readily visible across the river.

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Unposted Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified Notation: Even though the photographer is unidentified, he did leave his/her fingerprints on the sidewalk, but I guess that won't actually help much with the I.D.!

POSTCARD Date: Postal stamp unclear, but written note dated July 5, 1915. Sent from 462 Stiles St., Winnipeg to Minitonas, Manitoba Publisher / Photographer: Meyers Photo, Winnipeg

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Unposted. Publisher / Photographer: Lyall Commercial. Notation: I have had some difficulty finding information on this building/business. The 1911 Henderson Directory has its address as 21-27 Notre Dame Avenue, St. Boniface. No such number exists today. Notre Dame begins at Tache - running east, with house numbers in the 100s. Checking with Hatheway's map of Winnipeg in 1911, it is evident that Notre Dame originally ran straight through Tache to the river bank - land now repurposed as Parc Joseph Royal. Given that the odd numbers on Tache are on the north side, it is likely that the St. Boniface Hotel was as well. In fact, I am pretty sure that it sat at the NW corner of Tache & Notre Dame. Back to the image on the postcard... I believe that the paved street on the right side of the picture was likely Tache and the dirt street on the left would have been Notre Dame.

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Unposted. Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified Notation: Located at 219 Provencher Avenue, the Town Hall was opened in the spring of 1906. To compensate for cost overruns, however, the builder had decided to modify the original plans and forgo the imposing tower in favour of a rather squat little dome. The public was outraged by the "behive" as it was dubbed, and by 1908 had forced the builder to rebuild the tower in keeping with the original plans. Further information on the St. Boniface Town Hall can found at: www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/historic/pdf-consv/Provencher%20219-long.pdf

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified Notation: This is a view of the rear & entrance of the chapel inside the Maison Chapelle - the mother house of the Mission Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate, in St. Boniface.

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified Notation: This is a view of the front & alter of the chapel inside the Maison Chapelle - the mother house of the Mission Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate, in St. Boniface.

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Unposted. Publisher / Photographer: Lyall Commercial Notation: In 1902, Archbishop Langevin had a wooden building constructed on Aleneau Street near the Normal School, as a residence for young women students. In 1904 it became the wotherhome for a new religious order that he began - the Mission Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate. A substantial addition was made in 1909. In the 1950's the building was replaced with a new Oblate convent, at 601 Aulneau Street.

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Unposted. Publisher / Photographer: Lyall Commercial Notation: This was the home of one of St. Boniface's most revered inhabitants - James Emile Pierre Prendergast (1858 - 1945). Among his many contributions to the city and the Province, made personally and professionally, he was the MLA for Provencher from 1892-1896, the MLA for Woodlands from 1892-1896, and the Mayor of St. Boniface from 1893-1896. During his lifetime, Judge Prendergast had several residences. This photographer, Maurice Lyall, was primarily active from 1911 through 1913. During that period, the address of the Pendergast home was 85 Rue Notre Dame Street in St. Boniface. I am assuming that this house would have been located on an earlier portion of Notre Dame to the west of Tache - likely on the north side of the street. Further information on Judge Prendergast can be found at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prendergast_(Canadian_politician)