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Armstrong's Point (informally referred to as The Gates) is a neighbourhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is located in the West End of the city and in a large bend in the Assiniboine River. The land was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a residential district. ==History== The Hudson’s Bay Company deeded the land to Joseph Hill who arrived at Red River of the North in 1849 with a Pensioner Regiment. The area was originally called Point-a-Peltier. In 1854, returning to England, Hill put James Armstrong (1790-1874) in charge of the property. Hearing of Hill's death, the property was sold to Francis Evans Cornish, the first mayor of Winnipeg. In the early 1880s, Hill returned to Winnipeg, and reestablished his ownership of the land before selling it to a speculators' syndicate in April 1881 for $28,000. The speculators renamed the area Victoria Place, though officially it was known as Registered Plan 119. During the period of 1880 through 1920, houses were built on its four roads, Cornish Avenue, East Gate, West Gate, and Middle Gate. The first home was completed in 1882. Some of the buildings in Armstrong's Point that are historically significant are: * 20 West Gate, the Cornish Library, completed in 1915 * 40 West Gate, which became the French Consulate * 54 West Gate, the Ralph Connor House, which became a National Historic Site * 86 West Gate which became Westgate Mennonite Collegiate - demolished 1989 * 134 West Gate, which became the Japanese Consulate * 158 West Gate, which became St. John's-Ravenscourt School- demolished 1950 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Armstrong's Point」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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