Heritage Winnipeg Preservation Award winners announced
Heritage Winnipeg Preservation Award winners announced
WINNIPEG – The winners of Heritage Winnipeg’s 38th annual Preservation Awards have been announced. They were named at a free public event on April 17 at the historic Millennium Centre in Winnipeg’s Exchange District. “It was so wonderful to recognize an...
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Phipps-McKinnon building in Edmonton to become partial residential conversion
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B.C.’s Colquitz River bridges undergoing $35.5M retrofits
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Heritage Winnipeg Preservation Award winners announced
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