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Earn International Building
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The Earn Building is one of several pre-1900 buildings
on Princess Street that are the city’s oldest surviving
warehouses.
They symbolize Winnipeg’s rise as the major wholesale
distribution centre in Western Canada and represent the
outward growth of the city’s warehouse district from
its initial location east of Main Street near the Red River
and west of Main around Market Square. This growth brought
a rapid transition to the Exchange District with most of
the residential housing in the area being demolished and
replaced by warehouses.
