Robert Logan had purchased it. 

 The present residence of Alexander 

 Logan, formerly mayor of the city, is 

 in the neighborhood of the old fort. Logan 

 Avenue is a memorial of this well known 

 family. As beyond this estate lay the 

 Point Douglas common , these four families 

 may be said to have the preeminence as 

 our F. F. W's. 



WINNIPEG. 



The investigation of Hudson's Bay com- 

 pany affairs by the Imperial Parliament 

 in 1857, and the expedition sent by Can- 

 ada under Dawson and Hind to explore the 

 Northwest, led to a slow, but decided 

 movement of outsiders to the hitherto 



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sealed and unknown territories of the 

 Hudson's Bay company. The prophecy of 

 a city at the junction of theRedand Assini- 

 boine rivers was made at this early date. 

 There was great unwillingness on 

 the part of the settlers to leave the 

 banks of the rivers, but in 1862 the 

 first house in the village of "Winnipeg was 

 erected by McKenny & Co, Connected 

 with this enterprise was Dr. Schultz, who 

 had come to Red River in 1860. This 

 house, which until two or three years ago 

 stood at the corner of Main street and 



Portage avenue, was on the site now oc- 

 cupied by the handsome building of the 

 Western Canada Loan and Savings com- 

 pany. This was then a swampy corner, 

 but by degrees a few buildings grew up, 

 and the outline of our beautiful Main 

 street of to-dav began to be dimly seen. 

 Once begun, the movement to build up 

 a town led to division, and in 1871 a num- 

 ber of houses were built on Main street 

 opposite Point Douglas, now a short dis- 

 tance on this side of the C. P. R. station. 

 Thus there were three points. Fort Garry, 

 Winnipeg and Point Douglas, three gan- 

 glia or centres placed along Main street, 

 and in their interests they were very far 

 from responding to the same sympathetic 

 throb. 



EARLY MAIN STREET MERCHANTS. 



The buildings, as they stood in 1870, 

 may be easily mentioned, and the merch- 

 ants of Main street have been called 

 by a writer of that time the "original 

 founders of Winnipeg." First there was 

 the Red river hall building erected by 

 Andrew McDermott, immediately south 

 of the present Merchants' bank, a long 

 building with several shops beneath, and 

 a hall and several rooms above. The 

 writer performed a marriage in the upper 

 part of this building. This erection was 

 burnt down in the early days. Mr. Ban- 

 natyne had two buldings on the corner 

 of Main and Lombard streets. Farther 

 up the street on the corner of Main and 

 Water streets, Dr. Schultz erected the 

 brick block, a part of which still remains. 

 Messrs. Lyon, Higgins and Gingras had 

 occupied buildings further north on Main 

 street, and Messrs. Fonseca, Barber and 

 Hon. John Sutherland were the promo- 

 ters of Point Douglas. To the list of 

 founders may be added Wm. Drever, who 

 had built a house near the southwest 

 corner of Main street and Portage avenue. 

 This became a fashionable headquarters 

 known as the "Munro boarding house," 

 in which the writer passed a winter. West 

 of the Drever house, near the line of the 

 present Fort street, was a branch store of 

 the Hudson's Bay company used during 

 the winter of 1871 by the late Gilbert 

 McMicken as land office and dominion 

 police headquarters. To the list of mer- 

 chants of the earliest time may be added 

 the names of H. S. Donaldson, R. Patter- 

 sou, J. H. Ashdown, Alexander Begg and 

 Archibald Wright. 



THE LEADING HOSTELRY. 



Early in October, 1871, the writer re- 

 members arriving in Winnipeg in the 

 stage by which at that time, at a distance 

 of 400 miles, the railway in Minnesota was 

 reached. Our company alighted in front 

 of the chief hotel of Winnipeg, on the 

 west side of Main street, immediately 

 north of the Mclntyre block. The writer 

 had not expected to see in Winnipeg a 

 beautiful or entrancing spot, but the sight 

 of the western hamlet on that clear 



