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About Downtown Peggy

Peggy lives, works and plays right downtown in the heart of the city – she’s an urban gal and she wouldn’t have it any other way. She loves riding her bike or taking the bus if it’s rainy (any chance to use her giant HBC-striped umbrella is ok with her!)

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Did you hear? In the rubble of an century old staircase, inside the Paris building on Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg, construction crews have made a fascinating discovery - a series of love letters more than a hundred years old. One is stamped June 11th, 1918. "Apparently they were just sitting as a group together, not in any box or anything," said Sonya Berthin, General Manager for the building management company, McCor Management. "Everything was quite dusty." Once the dust was blown away the words on the yellowed paper almost lept off the page. Addressed to a woman named Becky Rusoff in Winnipeg from someone in Halifax named 'Soko', the author writes "it's a funny thing this love business. It has wrecked this calm exterior I have built around me. It's even painful. I understand the bride's tears at a wedding." In another playful letter, Soko tells Becky he got a photo of himself taken so he could send it to her. "So this is me," Soko writes. "My God! How the truth hurts. I feel desperate enough to grow a moustache." The picture of Soko wasn't found amongst the debris, and there wasn't any explanation for how the letters ended up here in the first place. Berthin hopes someone can solve that mystery. "I think it would be nice if we could find the rightful owners, and pass it on so everyone can kind of just go down memory lane." That stroll down memory lane could happen in the near future. CTV News has been able to learn more about the couple in the letters. 'Soko' is Hyman Sokolov, and it seems he and Becky Rousoff got married. Their grandson Stephen Sokolov says he thinks it's wonderful the letters have been found. He says his grandfather was a lawyer, and for a time, worked out at the Paris Building. Stephen believes his grandfather must have brought the letters to work. Then at some point, they were somehow sealed into the stairwell, and forgotten for decades. He hopes to get a chance to see them soon. Reposted article from @ctvwinnipeg #finditdowntown #onlyinthepeg

Have you ever noticed that this @truenorthsquare building is in the shape of Manitoba? So much beauty in the details! #finditdowntown

Wishing a Happy Easter to all celebrating today! 🐰💕 #finditdowntown

Love how our whole city gets behind our @nhljets! Saw this beautiful mural @bell_mts ‘s office building last week. For a list of venues showing the game downtown - check out the link in my bio! #gojetsgo #wearewpg #wearewinnipeg #finditdowntown

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