Elmwood (Roxy) Park

Elmwood Park is a 2.68 hectare park located along the Red River in the Glenelm district of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Many residents, including myself, refer to Elmwood Park as Roxy Park; the name originating from the Roxy Theatre which was built in 1929. The theatre became Roxy Bowling Lanes and is currently set to be demolished to make way for condos. The Park has been a wonderful source of images that I have captured over the years.

"When the park was created in 1909 there was still a house on the site which had to be removed. In the early years and until the mid 1960s there was a full-time gardener who maintained the park from early May to the middle of October. Elmwood Park was full of flowers as every spring up to 1,200 flowers were planted by the gardener until the mid 1960s. In the early 1920s the first washrooms and wading pool were built, these original features were replaced in the 1970s by newer ones that exist today."

Jim Smith, Winnipeg Free Press