Rooster Town

Rooster Town was a Métis community in Manitoba, Canada, located in modern-day Winnipeg.

[1] The peak population of Rooster Town was from about the mid-1930s to 1945, with close to 250 residents.

[2] In the late 1950s, the remaining families' houses were burnt down or bulldozed to make way for Grant Park Shopping Centre and Grant Park High School.

[2][3] Lawrie Barkwell, senior historian at Louis Riel Institute, has described Rooster Town as a "working-class community with a vibrant culture.

"[4] Recent scholarship, such as the book Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901–1961 by Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock and Adrian Werner and an article by David G. Burley in Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, explore the long-hidden history of this community.