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Rooster Town, also known as Pakan Town[1] or Pakan Ville[2] was a Métis road allowance community in Manitoba, Canada, located in modern-day Winnipeg.

Copper kettle sculpture in north Fort Garry marking the former Rooster Town community.

This Métis settlement existed from the early 1900s to the late 1950s. The difficulty of procuring affordable housing close to other members of the Métis community had led families to the decision to build their own housing on the land.[3] Originally located near what is now Corydon Avenue in Winnipeg, the community was slowly pushed further south to a more permanent location near where Grant Avenue now runs, in order to accommodate new, higher-income housing development.[4]

The area was given the name Pakan Town or Pakan Ville by residents of the community, for the abundance of hazelnuts that grew there.[1]

The peak population of Rooster Town was from about the mid-1930s to 1945, with close to 250 residents.[5] As of 1951, the homes had neither roads, plumbing nor sewers, and were served by a single water pump for which residents needed to travel a mile to access.[6] That year the Winnipeg Free Press reported on the area, quoting school trustee Mrs. Nan Murphy describing the homes as "a picture of filth and squalor", saying they were crowded, with residents sometimes sleeping four to a bed. She suggested that the only solution was "to condemn the area and move the people out".[6] Negative stereotypes about the area were common in newspaper reporting of the time. [7] Lawrie Barkwell, senior historian at Louis Riel Institute, has described Rooster Town as a "working-class community with a vibrant culture."[8]

Throughout the 1950s, many residents left under pressure from developers to relocate. During that time, Winnipeg city council sold the land to a developer, and in 1959 then-mayor Stephen Juba and city council evicted the homes, despite protest from the residents. The houses were burnt down or bulldozed to make way for Grant Park Shopping Centre and Grant Park High School.[5][7]

Recent scholarship, such as the book Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901–1961 by Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock and Adrian Werner and an article by David G. Burley in Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, explore the long-hidden history of this community.[9][10]

In 2019, the city of Winnipeg installed a public art piece, titled the Rooster Town Kettle at the Beaumont Station of the Southwest Winnipeg Transitway. Designed by Métis artist Ian August, the five-meter tall sculpture resembles a copper kitchen kettle, and is large enough to hold the amount of daily water that would be required for 250 people, the size of the Rooster Town community at its peak. The piece is intended as both a symbol of the Rooster Town settlement and the plight of Indigenous communities still under boil-water advisories.[11]

In 2022, the city of Winnipeg renamed the former Pan Am Pool Park, located at Grant Avenue and Cambridge Street, to "Rooster Town Park" to honour the Métis families who were forced out of their homes.[12] The sign was unveiled by Philip and Frank Sais, whose families lived in Rooster Town, and city councillor John Orlikow.[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b Peters, Evelyn; Barkwell, Lawrence. "Rooster Town: A Metis Road Allowance Community". Winnipeg Public Library.
  2. ^ "Pakan Ville / Rooster Town: Home". Winnipeg Public Library. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  3. ^ "Rooster Town". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  4. ^ Tait, Maren (November 15, 2018). "Winnipeg's History: Rooster Town". Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties. Retrieved 2025-09-21.
  5. ^ a b "Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community". news.umanitoba.ca.
  6. ^ a b "Village of Patched-Up Shacks Scene Of Appalling Squalor". Winnipeg Free Press. 1951-12-20. pp. 1, 8.
  7. ^ a b Niigaan Sinclair (16 October 2018). "City newspapers hastened demise of Rooster Town". Winnipeg Free Press. pp. A5.
  8. ^ "Rooster Town: the Winnipeg community that nobody remembers". The Uniter.
  9. ^ "Rooster Town". uofmpress.ca.
  10. ^ David G. Burley (2013). "Rooster Town: Winnipeg's Lost Métis Suburb, 1900–1960" (PDF). Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine. 42 (1): 3–25. doi:10.3138/uhr.42.01.01.
  11. ^ Zoratti, Jen (2021-08-07). "Tough art, tough subjects". Winnipeg Free Press. pp. G1. Retrieved 2025-09-21.
  12. ^ PURSAGA, JOYANNE (2022-11-17). "Effort to rename city places, markers proves popular". Winnipeg Free Press. pp. B1, B3.
  13. ^ "REMEMBERING ROOSTER TOWN". Winnipeg Free Press. 2022-08-24. pp. B1.

Further reading

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  • Evelyn Peters; Matthew Stock; Adrian Werner (2018). Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901–1961. University of Manitoba Press. ISBN 978-0-88755-825-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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