A look back: Winnipeg’s downtown Bay

Posted: 12:23 PM CDT Friday, Oct. 2, 2020 Last Modified: 11:18 AM CST Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020

Winnipeg's downtown Hudson's Bay store is a mammoth icon of a bygone era of downtown department-store shopping. The building is 515,000 square feet -- almost twice the size of the Winnipeg Ikea store -- but over the years the company has closed off five of the seven floors.

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Winnipeg’s downtown Hudson’s Bay store is a mammoth icon of a bygone era of downtown department-store shopping. The building is 515,000 square feet — almost twice the size of the Winnipeg Ikea store — but over the years the company has closed off five of the seven floors.

Here’s a look back at the downtown Bay over the last 94 years.