18 Factoids | Volume 8
STRUCTURALLY
SOUND
Located on the Esplanade Riel
pedestrian bridge spanning between The
Forks and St. Boniface, Mon Amis Louis
is the only restaurant in North America
located on a bridge.
The 17,000 cubic metres of concrete used in
the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has an
approximate mass of 35,000 tonnes, equivalent to around
3,000 full-grown male elephants. This also amounts to
an approximate volume of 2,125 loads from a standard
10-yard cement truck.
At the time of construction in 1968,
the Winnipeg Floodway was the
second-largest earth-moving
project in the world after the
Panama Canal. It has saved the
city from flooding many times
since it was constructed by
then-Premier Duff Roblin.
It is affectionately referred
to as "Duff's Ditch."
Winnipeg's Union Station was designed
by the same architects responsible for
Grand Central Station in New York City.
Built in 1904, the Union
Bank Tower—an 11-storey
Chicago-School-style
building at the corner of
Winnipeg's Main Street and
William Avenue was Western
Canada's first skyscraper.
Today, it is revamped to
be the home of Red River
College's culinary arts
students studying at Paterson
GlobalFoods Institute (PGI).
Photo
courtesy
Dan
Harper
Photography
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