{"product_id":"portage-and-main-how-an-iconic-intersection-shaped-winnipegs-history-politics-and-urban-life-9781773371450","title":"Portage and Main: How an Iconic Intersection Shaped Winnipeg's History, Politics, and Urban Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"For more than a generation, Winnipeg's famous intersection was hidden behind concrete walls, its significance slowly fading from our collective memory. Just as the physical place is being reintroduced to our city, this timely and compelling book reintroduces us to the people and stories that shaped its legacy.\" -- Brent Bellamy, Creative Director at Number TEN Architectural Group and columnist for the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePortage and Main: How an iconic intersection shaped Winnipeg's history, politics, and urban life \u003c\/i\u003eexplores stories of Portage and Main throughout Winnipeg's history and the complicated relationship between the city's oldest intersection and culture of the urban environment that grew around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty years ago, Portage and Main was closed to pedestrians as part of a downtown renewal project. This left an intersection void of pedestrians, and the promised vision of a revitalized city never came to fruition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2025, Portage and Main opened to pedestrians once again. With a city struggling to balance the demands of its sprawling suburbs with its need to invest in downtown, the future of this iconic crossroad is in flux once again. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinnipeg historians Alex Judge and Sabrina Janke, hosts of the \u003ci\u003eOne Great History\u003c\/i\u003e podcast, describe how open, closed, or somewhere strange and in-between, the intersection's history reflects the ideas of what Winnipeg is, could be, and has been. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the case, one thing is clear: Portage and Main is far more than just an intersection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSabrina Janke is a historian who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, whose work has appeared on the \u003ci\u003eCBC\u003c\/i\u003e, in the \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePrairie History Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the co-host of podcast One Great History, and a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Heritage Conservation and Promotion. Sabrina spends her free time exploring Winnipeg, crafting, and has become a reluctant birder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Judge is a Winnipegger born and bred, except for a brief stint living in Montreal and a year in the Cabbagetown district of Toronto. In addition to her day job, Alex co-hosts the One Great History podcast, which presents the great, not-so-great, and just plain bizarre stories of Manitoba history. Alex was presented with a Winnipeg 150 medal in 2024 for her work on the show. When not at the archives, Alex enjoys crafting, mystery novels and a newfound interest in woodworking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Great Plains Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52078238957842,"sku":"9781773371450","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1cdcd4e2-6518-408d-82c6-c0fedc49dd14.jpg?v=1772537809","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/portage-and-main-how-an-iconic-intersection-shaped-winnipegs-history-politics-and-urban-life-9781773371450","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}