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Chapter 5: Winnipeg

The ladies were quite as fashionably dressed as in England, but I thought them rather to showy to be quite in accordance with English taste…

Emma gives a detailed description of her first impressions of Winnipeg, including the people, the sidewalks and the mud. Emma's assessment of the people she sees reflects her English viewpoint, particularly in her encounters with Aboriginal people.

Chapter 5 of Emma Averill's journal
A of M, Emma Averill fonds, P267 | Read original | Read transcript
Main Street looking north from Portage Avenue showing the wide mud road and boardwalks. Main Street looking south from Graham Avenue showing the wide mud road and boardwalks.
Main Street looking north from Portage Avenue showing the wide mud road and boardwalks.
A of M, Stovel Advocate Collection 20

 Main Street looking south from Graham Avenue showing the wide mud road and boardwalks.
A of M, Streets – Main c1880 1
Group of Aboriginal people
Aboriginal people, as seen here at the corner of Notre Dame Avenue and Albert Street c.1881, would certainly have aroused the curiosity of newly arrived immigrants.
A of M,Transportation-Red River Cart 15, N1428


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