MHM The Barber House - Winnipeg MB
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PeterNoG
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This Manitoba Historical Marker is in front of The Barber House at 99 Euclid Avenue in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Waymark Code: WMM1K4
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date Posted: 07/03/2014
Views: 2
Badly damaged by an arson in 2010, it was restored in 2011.
Marker Name: The Barber House
Agency: The Historic Sites Advisory Board of Manitoba
Languages: English
Location:
99 Euclid Avenue
Winnipeg
Marker Text:
The Barber House
This is one of Winnipeg’s earliest buildings, constructed in 1862 by E.L. Barber (1834–1909) and continuously occupied for over one hundred years. Of American birth, Barber established prosperous mercantile and real estate ventures in the Red River Settlement. He laid out many of the streets in Point Douglas, then the estate of his father-in-law, Robert Logan (1773–1866), a fur trader who became a prominent settler and a councillor of Assiniboia.
In 1870 Dr. John Schultz fled to this house after escaping Louis Riel’s forces at Upper Fort Garry. Barber, Schultz’s real estate partner, smuggled him out of the colony.
Website: [Web Link]
Link to HistoricPlaces.ca or mhs.mb.ca: [Web Link]
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