[1] Some points of interest along Academy Road include: The Uptown Theatre building opened in 1931 as an atmospheric-style movie palace during the golden age of cinema.
[3][4] With the bowling alley relocating in April 2018, construction began in 2019 to transform the building into a mixed-use commercial and 23-suite apartment complex, adding additional floors.
[2][6] Acquired in 1915, the site (615-621 Academy) originally served an orphanage of the Children’s Home of Winnipeg, opening on 18 March 1916 by Mayor Richard Deans Waugh.
The 2-storey schoolhouse held 4 classrooms, and—though not really a public school—its operating costs were covered by the Winnipeg School Division, who also provided its teaching staff.
[6] With the Children's Home relocating to Assiniboine Avenue in February 1945, following World War II, the former buildings at 615 Academy were taken by the federal Department of Veterans Affairs as an annex to its convalescent hospital at Deer Lodge in St.
[8][10] Operating as a high school (grades 8-12) until 1967, it brought in thousands of children from other schools—holding 600 students from First Nations throughout Manitoba (and Northern Ontario), aged 15 to 20.
Though few had formal hockey training, the rosers were made up of young Indigenous men from Cree, Ojibway, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Sioux First Nations.