This photograph of Grove Street, which was situated in the North End of the city, shows a tenement house of the kind that sprang up in Winnipeg in the years after 1900. Winnipeg's Health Officer commented in 1912 that these tenements were "badly constructed, faultily designed, inadequately ventilated, poorly lighted, and badly kept". Yet despite a plentiful supply of land, the technical capacity to build better units, and the efforts of the Winnipeg Health Officer, the city's developers continued to build structures such as these.
