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A Manitoba Masterpiece
On the day the downtown Bay opened at 9 a.m. Nov. 18, 1926, it was the largest reinforced concrete building in Canada. The total budget for the store’s construction was $5,968,000. Here’s a snapshot of what went into the six-storey construction more than a year earlier.
Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba
Stonework includes 125,000 cubic feet of cut stone (locally cut Tyndall) and 1.5 million bricks.
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