Wolseley, Manitoba
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Wolseley is a residential area in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, located in the west central part of the city. It is named for Colonel Garnet Wolseley, a British Army officer who came to Manitoba in 1870 to suppress the Red River Rebellion.
Wolseley, as a socially defined community, is bounded on the south by the Assiniboine River, on the west by Omand's Creek, on the north by Portage Avenue and on the east by Maryland Street. The electoral district named 'Wolseley' has wider boundaries to the north and west, and includes parts of the West End and St. James.
The area that is now called Wolseley was originally part of the Parish of St.James, and was annexed into the City of Winnipeg in 1882. It was developed primarily between 1905 and 1930 as an Anglo-Saxon middle class area.
Wolseley was home to an amusement park for several years before it closed permanently in 1909. Happyland included a 90-metre Doric-style entrance, a roller coaster, ballroom, Japanese tea gardens, ferris wheel, and a 240-metre circular swing.
Beginning in the 1950s, Wolseley began to deteriorate as many middle class families left the area to settle in Winnipeg's suburbs. Many homes were subdivided into rooming houses. In the 1980's, many young professional people returned to Wolseley and began rejuvenating and gentrifying the area. Today, Wolseley is once again seen as a desirable residential area, and is one of the most intact pre-1930 residential areas in Canada.
Wolseley has the reputation throughout Winnipeg for being very environmentally conscious, sometimes referred to throughout the city as the "granola belt". Businesses in Wolseley's small shopping district on Westminster Avenue corroborate the claim, among them a couple of organic food marts and small bakery, bookstore, used clotheing store, and yoga shop.
The neighbourhood's residents have also lived up to their reputation for environmentalism by fighting to keep pesticide-spraying trucks out of the area for several years. This action illustrates one of the realities of Wolseley - that it is not an entirely homogenous area. It is estimated that there are more residents who would prefer the spraying for mosquitoes than there are those who oppose it.
The area has a population of 7,830, of which 7.2% reported Aboriginal origin and 4.8% were visible minorities. The average household income is $47,106 or about 89% of the Winnipeg average. Fifty-six percent of dwellings in the area are owned, while 44% are rented. (Statistics Canada - 2001 Census).
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