Later Agricultural Industry Buildings

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The Winnipeg Grain and Produce Exchange moved to the new Grain Exchange Building in 1908 and with it, the center of business shifted to the east side of Main Street. Renamed the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, it had become the most influential institution in the development of Winnipeg. The Grain exchange Building was the largest office building in the Dominion at the time of its construction and from its two-storey trading floor, business was carried on with the rest of the world. Most of Winnipeg's grain companies conducted business from within the Grain Exchange Building and to this day, many still remain in the District. Main Street and Lombard Avenue also became the home of other financial institutions which had been attracted to Winnipeg by the Exchange. The Exchange moved to its new home at the southwest corner of Portage and Main in 1980.

	Buildings outside the exchange The buildings and their architects History of the business district Edwardian buildings and the beaux-arts school: a revival of historicism		Early agricultural industry buildings & agricultural machinery warehouses Theatres Public works Banks and other financial buildings Architectural terms		Newspapers and printers Hardware, dry goods and grocery wholesale warehouses Manufacturing and wholesale agents Later agricultural industry buildings