Winnipeg’s Wealthy Beginnings Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour
- 1–2.5 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Explore Winnipeg’s historic Broadway and Memorial district on a flexible GPS-guided audio walking tour. Stories play automatically as you follow the 2.5 km route past grand buildings, monuments and leafy boulevards. Highlights include WAG-QAUMAJUQ, MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE BUILDING, UPPER FORT GARRY, MANITOBA CLUB, FORT GARRY HOTEL and UNION STATION. Hear how wealth, politics and railway growth shaped the city. Start whenever you like, pause for photos or museum visits and finish at your own pace. Download before you arrive; no mobile data or signal is needed during the tour.
Inclusions
What's included
- No time constraints, take as long as you like to complete the tour
- Download on WIFI before (no signal required or data used during tour)
- Live GPS map shows route & your location
- Flexible dates - tour is yours to keep and enjoy anytime on Tripvia Tours.
- Tour guide commentary automatically plays at each point of interest
What's not
- Attraction tickets
- Headphones (optional - audio will play from device speaker too)
- Smartphone or tablet
- WINNIPEG RAILWAY MUSEUM: closed for Union Station upgrades; exterior viewing only.
- FORMER HUDSON’S BAY BUILDING: redevelopment underway; exterior viewing only.
- Parking fees
- In-person tour guide
Itinerary
FORMER HUDSON’S BAY BUILDING. See the landmark department store being transformed into Wehwehneh Bahgahkinahgohn, a major Indigenous-led redevelopment.
WAG-QAUMAJUQ. Admire the striking art gallery and its internationally celebrated collection of Inuit art.
MANITOBA ARCHIVES BUILDING. See the stately home of Manitoba’s provincial records and stories.
FORMER VAUGHAN STREET JAIL. View the imposing surviving jail building and its sombre place in Winnipeg history from the exterior.
POWER HOUSE BUILDING. Pass this utilitarian heritage structure that once helped serve the surrounding government complex.
LAND TITLES BUILDING. Admire the grand civic architecture of an institution central to Winnipeg’s early growth.
DEVON COURT APARTMENTS. See an elegant early apartment building that reflects Broadway’s fashionable residential era.
TUCKWELL’S SCHOOL FOR BOYS. Picture the vanished private school through the tour’s historic image at this former-site stop.
MONARCH LIFE BUILDING. Notice the refined architecture of this prominent early Winnipeg office building.
KENMORE AND PRINCETON APARTMENTS. Admire two buildings once counted among Winnipeg’s most luxurious residences.
UNION STATION AND WINNIPEG RAILWAY MUSEUM. View Winnipeg’s grand railway landmark from outside; the museum remains closed during station upgrades.
MANITOBA CLUB. See Western Canada’s oldest operating private club, founded in 1874.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
2.3
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Ratings come from 3 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Tour starts at the iconic Hudson's Bay Building, one of 6 original departments stores in Canada.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 10 travellers
- Operated by
- Tripvia Tours
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Wheelchair accessible
How it compares in Winnipeg
- Its from-price is 77% below the median of the 38 experiences we list in Winnipeg.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 9 of 38.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Winnipeg
Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba, stands where the Red and Assiniboine rivers meet, a prairie city with a historic warehouse district and cold winters.
Winnipeg sits on the flat prairie of southern Manitoba, at The Forks, where the Red and Assiniboine rivers join. People have gathered at the meeting place for thousands of years, and today it holds a market, riverside paths, and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, whose glass-and-stone tower is visible across the city.
Top-ranked sights in Winnipeg: Canadian Museum for Human Rights, The Forks Market.
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