1950 – Princess Elizabeth Building, Riverview, Winnipeg

Built as the Princess Elizabeth Hospital, one of a group of three hospitals named after British Royalty and known collectively as the Winnipeg Municipal Hospital. The Princess Elizabeth was built as Canada’s first long-term care facility. The other two hospitals on site were the King Edward Memorial and the King George Hospitals. These facilities were recognized for their advanced treatment of communicable diseases like typhoid fever, diphtheria, smallpox, and tuberculosis.

Built over several years, the building is a comfortable modernism, finished externally in brick with a landmark entrance. The plan is long with swept back wings allowing maximum light into all windows.

Now the hospitals are known as the Riverview Center. The Princess Elizabeth building is the only remaining original building, the others being demolished and a new facility constructed in the 1990s. It now houses the centre’s administration offices.

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