The most exclusive neighborhood in Winnipeg began in 1889 when John Henry Munson purchased a mansion along the Assiniboine River. He called his property Crescentwood. During the next twenty years, more of the city’s rich built lavish homes along Wellington Crescent. It is well worth a slow drive but it is better to take a tour. Then you can learn the history of the first owners – most of Winnipeg’s elite families. Plus you will hear side stories such as neighbors’ fate on the Titanic in 1912: J. J. Borebank died, Mark Fortune and his son drowned but his wife and daughters survived, and John Suckling refused to go on that voyage despite his wife’s protests.
