In March 1961, Winnipeg city council approved the $8.4-million Burrows-Keewatin project. Work began to clear nearly 50 acres (about 20 hectares) of land west of Main Street and north of the Canadian Pacific Railway yards — an area often called “the slums” of Winnipeg.
The project made headlines, with one in the Winnipeg Tribune on Oct. 17, 1963, calling it a “Big step out of the slums into a bright new world.”
Lorry Mulvaney’s mother, Rhoda Mulvaney, was interviewed for that article, as one of the first people to move into the complex. It would soon house 165 families.
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