Ross House Museum - Winnipeg

Name: Ross House Museum - Winnipeg
Address: 140 Meade St N, Winnipeg, MB R2W 3K4, Canada, W, 2, Canada

4.3/5 ★ based on 8 reviews

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Home of the oldest building in Winnipeg

About Ross House Museum

Prior to the invention of photography and its wide-spread use, these intricate and beautifully drawn lithograph prints were as close as you could get to a "Bird's-Eye View" that would be recognizable as such today. This print hangs in our Display Room gallery at the Ross House Museum and provides not only a phenomenal view of the growing city, but a glimpse at some of the breath-taking architectural landmarks lost to time.

This map from W. G. Fonseca may not be as accurate as our Google Maps of today, but this view, along with other maps, accounts, and photographs from the period provide important information not only for historians, but everyone who wants to know a bit more about the city they live in.

Us at Ross House have done a bit of research, locating the buildings pictured around Forseca's map that are still standing, and have found information about the buildings that have sadly been lost to time. Hopefully, by learning a bit about this map, you're able to better appreciate the city around you and how much Winnipeg has changed over the course of almost 140 years.

Thank you to Ferron Guerreiro for their research, Jim Smith for their valuable knowledge about maps, and the Museum's curator Eric Napier Strong.

- Alyssa Homeniuk, Curatorial Assistant

Contact Ross House Museum

Address :	140 Meade St N, Winnipeg, MB R2W 3K4, Canada
Phone :	📞 +99
Postal code :	2
Website :	http://www.rosshousemuseum.ca/
Categories :	Museum , Tourist attraction ,
City :	W

140 Meade St N, Winnipeg, MB R2W 3K4, Canada

Best Museum in Canada

B	Brent Oig on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It big part of Winnipeg history
D	Doug T. on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Areal gem just minutes from the city centre.
D	David Carey on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Go for the visit. Great way to spend some time.
B	Brant Fenske on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Staff on hand to share the history of this house built in 1853 with only hand tools.
K	Kathleen Christensen on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Loved the community location and the 19th century homey feeling
R	Ryan Cormack on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Nice little museum. Tour was about 40 minutes. The focus is on the Ross family, early Scottish/Metis settlers in the mid 1800's.
S	Shane McComb on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Very interesting and neat. Everyone is very pleasant and helpful to answer questions, when going for a tour.
T	Tiffani Sawatzky on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ After months of Putin building up tens of thousands of troops near the Ukrainian border and a series of failed diplomatic talks, Russia is now waging a full-out war on Ukraine. Tensions escalated quickly when, on February 21, Putin delivered an hour-long combative speech that essentially denied Ukrainian statehood. He recognized the independence of two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine where Moscow has backed a separatist rebellion since 2014 and sent so-called peacekeeping forces into the region. As experts said, that was likely just the beginning, setting the stage for a much larger conflict. Days later, that larger conflict materialized. On February 24, Putin announced he was launching an assault “to defend people who for eight years are suffering persecution and genocide by the Kyiv regime,” a reference to a false claim about the government in Ukraine. Putin claimed that the Russian military seeks “demilitarization and denazification” but not occupation. He demanded Ukraine lay down its weapons or be “responsible for bloodshed.” Soon after Putin’s speech, reports emerged of explosions around cities, including Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine and the capital Kyiv. The Ukrainian foreign minister called it “a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.” By the afternoon in Ukraine, Russian troops and tanks had entered the country on three fronts: from Belarus in the north, from the east of Ukraine, and from the south.