The Federal Building was constructed at the height of the Great Depression under Canada’s Public Works Construction Act of 1934. At the roofline of the horizontal seventh floor are carved wheat shafts. Architect George Northwood then accented his Art Deco design with an 11 story tower. The government structure was finished in 1935 using local Tyndall stone and unemployed construction workers. It has become a landmark along Main Street in downtown Winnipeg.
