{"product_id":"portage-and-main-sabrina-janke-9781773371450","title":"Portage and Main: How an Iconic Intersection Shaped Winnipeg's History, Politics, and Urban Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"For more than a generation, Winnipeg's famous intersection was hidden behind concrete walls, its significance slowly fading from our collective memory. Just as the physical place is being reintroduced to our city, this timely and compelling book reintroduces us to the people and stories that shaped its legacy.\" -- Brent Bellamy, Creative Director at Number TEN Architectural Group and columnist at \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePortage and Main: How an iconic intersection shaped Winnipeg's history, politics, and urban life \u003c\/i\u003eexplores stories of Portage and Main throughout Winnipeg's history and the complicated relationship between the city's oldest intersection and culture of the urban environment that grew around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty years ago, Portage and Main was closed to pedestrians as part of a downtown renewal project. This left an intersection void of pedestrians, and the promised vision of a revitalized city never came to fruition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2025, Portage and Main will open to pedestrians once again. With a city struggling to balance the demands of its sprawling suburbs with its need to invest in downtown, the future of this iconic crossroad is in flux once again. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinnipeg historians Alex Judge and Sabrina Janke, hosts of the \u003ci\u003eOne Great History\u003c\/i\u003e podcast, describe how open, closed, or somewhere strange and in-between, the intersection's history reflects the ideas of what Winnipeg is, could be, and has been. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the case, one thing is clear: Portage and Main is far more than just an intersection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sabrina Janke,Alex Judge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1773371452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773371450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Great Plains Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Sabrina Janke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48114031034623,"sku":"9781773371450","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_10be7f7c-92ea-4954-9936-16415025739b.jpg?v=1769618679","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/portage-and-main-sabrina-janke-9781773371450","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}