Fort Garry Place & Prairie 360

A point of interest on the Winnipeg's Wealthy Beginnings GPS-guided audio walking tour.

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Audio Transcript

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Alright. We're going to get a bit of a neck workout on this one. If you look to your left, or West, and look up. Way up. You’ll see a big, circular, glassed enclosure on top of the high rise. It looks a bit like a crown.

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Want a little adventure? Take the outdoor glass elevator 28 floors up alongside the building and you'll be inside that crown. Prairie 360, is a 200-seat revolving restaurant overlooking the city. Sunsets are spectacular and honestly, so are thunderstorms. Snowstorms can be very pretty too, but they’re much better from inside, looking out!

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Built in 1986, the base of Fort Garry Place, the body to that crown, is four stories of office space, shopping and parking. There are 3 towers rising from this complex, each with 900 apartments. The north tower, the one topped by Prairie 360, has 4 more floors than the other 2.

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You may have noticed that Garry is a popular name around here. That’s because Nicholas Garry, sent here in 1816 to navigate the merger of Hudson’s Bay Company and their arch-rival, The Northwest Company, influenced history in a huge and very unique way. He kept a diary of his experiences that has been read, re-read, examined, quoted, lectured on and written about throughout the years. It’s actually still available on Amazon.

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