Portage and Main

Winnipeg's Portage Avenue and Main Street, one of Canada's most famous intersections, turns 150 on Saturday. It was in 1862 that Henry McKenney purchased a parcel of land that "was low and swampy, covered with scrub oak and poplar" where the north-south and east-west ox cart paths crossed. There he built a store, a move some called crazy, since it was far from the Red River colony near the Forks.