WINNIPEG — It’s been 75 years since one of the worst floods in the city of Winnipeg’s history.
At the time around 100,000 residents were evacuated. The 1950 flood was one of the largest evacuations for its time in Canadian history, reports the city.
To mark the historic flooding, the City of Winnipeg has digitized nearly 200 photos. The images provide a glimpse of the massive relief effort that took place when the Red River spilled its banks.
“Given the flood’s anniversary, it was important for us to make these records easily available,” said Jarad Buckwold, digital archivist with the archives and records control branch.
The photos were taken by David Portigal and are from a group of negatives the City of Winnipeg Archives had received.
They’ve been added to the archives’ River City: Records of Flooding in Winnipeg digital exhibit in the Resources and Archival Research section. The exhibit looks at archival records of significant flood events in the city’s history.
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