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A collection of breaking news briefs filed on Thursday, October 5, 2023
Festival du Voyageur to tear down Fort Gibraltar’s walls after platform collapse
10:27 AM
Festival du Voyageur has announced it plans to tear down the walls of the Fort Gibraltar historic site, in the wake of the dramatic collapse of an elevated platform in May that injured a group of schoolchildren and a teacher.
Grade 5 students from St. John’s-Ravenscourt School had gone to the popular historic site and museum in Whittier Park on May 31, when they heard a cracking noise before two sections of the platform collapsed and sent 28 people crashing to the ground from a distance of approximately six metres. Seventeen children and one adult had to be hospitalized.
The parents of one of the children, who was badly injured, filed a lawsuit against the City of Winnipeg, which leases the site, and the francophone festival, which operates it, in August.
The festival said in a statement Thursday that the premises of the site will remain closed to the public, while it plans to bring the fort’s walls down before the annual Festival du Voyageur commences in February next year.