{"product_id":"portage-and-main-how-an-iconic-intersection-shaped-winnipegs-history-politics-and-urban-life-sabrina-janke-alex-judge-released-nov-2025","title":"Portage \u0026 Main: How An Iconic Intersection Shaped Winnipeg's History, Politics, \u0026 Urban Life [Sabrina Janke \u0026 Alex Judge]","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortage and Main: How an iconic intersection shaped Winnipeg's history, politics, and urban life \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexplores stories of Portage and Main throughout Winnipeg's history and the complicated relationship between the city's oldest intersection and culture of the urban environment that grew around it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFifty years ago, Portage and Main was closed to pedestrians as part ofa downtown renewal project. This left an intersection void of pedestrians, and the promised vision of a revitalized city never came to fruition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2025, Portage and Main opened to pedestrians once again. With a city struggling to balance the demands of its sprawling suburbs with its need to invest in downtown, the future of this iconic crossroad is in flux once again. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWinnipeg historians Alex Judge and Sabrina Janke, hosts of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOneGreat History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e podcast, describe how open, closed, or somewhere strange and in-between, the intersection's history reflects the ideas of what Winnipeg is, could be, and has been. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhatever the case, one thing is clear: Portage and Main is far more than just an intersection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGreat Plains Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNov. 18 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePaperback: ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e222 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-1773371450\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Prairie Sky General Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45686091743466,"sku":"Raincoast","price":31.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/6387\/9980\/files\/81r4pHlLCfL._SL1500.jpg?v=1761947376","url":"https:\/\/prairieskygeneralstore.com\/products\/portage-and-main-how-an-iconic-intersection-shaped-winnipegs-history-politics-and-urban-life-sabrina-janke-alex-judge-released-nov-2025","provider":"Prairie Sky General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}