Within the last eight months, a series of scandals has carpet-bombed City Hall.
At the heart of each of them is an Administration unable to respect its own procedures and laws. These are issues that affect every citizen of Winnipeg.
There is good development, bad development
...and there is the law.
In fighting inappropriate development, neighborhoods are steamrollered by the City's willingness to breach ethics.
Each of us has to follow the City's laws.
Doesn't the City have to obey its own laws, as well?
If the answer is YES, then the City needs to radically change the way it conducts its Planning, Property and Development business.
Doesn't the City have to obey its own laws, as well?
If the answer is NO, then why bother having public hearings at all? Why have laws at all? Why should citizens have to resort to the courts to get the City to follow its own laws?
…yet, if we aren't prepared to take on the fight for ethical processes, then what are we teaching our children?
The History
Historic Armstrong's Point received its name in the mid-1800s, when the land was first granted by the Hudson's Bay Company to Captain Joseph Hill.
When Captain Hill returned to England five years later, he left his batman James Armstrong in charge and the area gradually came to be known as Armstrong's Point. In the early 1880s when Hill heard that land values were escalating in the Canadian west, he returned to Winnipeg, reestablished his title to his property, and sold it to a syndicate headed by J. McDonald and E. Rothwell.
The Armstrong's Point Association was formed 58 years ago to "preserve the residential nature" of one of Winnipeg's most cherished neighbourhoods. Over the years, residents have come and gone, but still somehow, this peaceful, naturally beautiful setting remains, cherished by all who live here and visit here.
Of the 123 homes on the Point, 75 are on the city's Inventory of Historically Noteworthy Buildings. The ornamental Tyndallstone gates were erected in 1902 and were designated by the City as historically significant in 1993.
The Cornish Library, a Carnegie library built in 1915, was named after Winnipeg*s first mayor, Francis Cornish. Ralph Connor House, home to the University Women*s Club at 54 West Gate, has been designated municipally and provincially and was recently named a National Historic Site. Beechmount at 134 West Gate is on the Canadian Registry of Historic Places.
Welcome to the APA Website
This Website was launched to provide an online presence for the Armstrong's Point Association to share with the community news and events.
Just like Armstrong's Point, the website is a collection of old and new with a lot of heritage and pride.
