1904 – Scott Block, 272 Main Street, Winnipeg
This five-storey brick structure with sandstone front,
This five-storey brick structure with sandstone front,
The oldest Chicago School skyscraper still standing in Western Canada was built for the Union Bank of Canada and once boasted the tallest flagpole in the British Empire.
Originally conceived as the Cauchon Block,
Formerly a seedy, down-at-hell rooming hotel,
Montreal architect H.C.
Built to replace an earlier building on the same site,
Unbuilt 14-storey proposal for an office building on the east side of Main Street,
Shortlived bank headquartered in Toronto that was created by Dominion statute in April 1884 to 1912.
The present structure at 389 Main Street is the third Bank of Commerce Building to stand on its site.
The McLaren family were a prominent Winnipeg hotelling family owning a number of establishments including the Brunswick (Main and Rupert),