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Top left image: Via Rail Union Station at dusk (Photo: Salvador Maniquiz) Top right image: Winnipeg Airport (Photo: Gerry Kopelow) Bottom left image: The Golden Boy (Photo: William Au/Destination Canada) Eternal Youth and the Spirit of Enterprise, more popularly known as The Golden Boy, is the city's most popular figure. Sculpted in France and completed in 1918 by Parisian sculptor Georges Gardet, it was placed on top of the Manitoba Legislative Building in 1919. It is made in the likeness of the Roman God of Mercury (Hermes), carrying a sheaf of wheat representing the rich resources of Manitoba in his left arm, along with a torch to light the way in his right. After a major flood damaged much of Winnipeg in 1950, then-Premier Duff Roblin began a massive project to create a diversion around the city. At the time of construction in 1968, the Red River Floodway was the second-largest excavation project in the world after the Panama Canal. It has since saved the city from flooding many times, and is affectionately referred to as "Duff's Ditch." Designed by famed Argentinian architect César Pelli, who also created The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport is celebrated for its design that embraces an ethos of openness and connectivity. It was Canada's first LEED- certified terminal building when it opened in 2011 and was named one of the world's iconic airports by Travel Channel.