Northend violence

Wow!

As a resident of the North End, I find most of the remarks here border on truly ignorant (in the dictionary sense).

Can you be more specific? Which posts are ignorant? Or is it the posters themselves that are ignorant? Is it because we don't understand the north end and her residents?

The north end seems to attract an unusual amount of controversy eh? Why do you suppose that is so?

incognito wrote:Wow!

As a resident of the North End, I find most of the remarks here border on truly ignorant (in the dictionary sense).

As a former resident of the North End, if your remarks are about my remarks, I must remark that I added a question mark, remarking that I was just a kid when I lived there, and have expressed my views of the situation remarking at a remarkable distance of 30 years away... Remarkably, I don't think things have changed to better in these unremarkable years gone by...
signed, remarCABLE Electrician.

Now that must have taken some time to come up with.

Pavolo wrote:Now that must have taken some time to come up with.

You mean the smiley heart?
Kung-fu-scious said:
"A clock can stop sometimes, but it can't stop time."

Grasshopper was told never play on Selkirk Street as it is to busy with cars to, especialy in front of the Merchant .

Didn't Grasshopper say the street was too busy with certain peeps?

incognito wrote:Wow!

As a resident of the North End, I find most of the remarks here border on truly ignorant (in the dictionary sense).

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. -author unknown

That quote can sum up all the people in the north end who turn a blind eye on what is going on.

I grew up in the north end. I attended Inkster school from k-6, I then attended Andrew Mynarski very briefly. We then moved to Garden City and I attended Jefferson Jr High, a way better school then Andrew was.

I moved out of my parents place and resided in Point Douglas for a few years...now that was an eye opening experience. Hookers hanging out in front of brothers grocery, dirty needles and used condoms littered the area. I then moved to Bannerman and Scotia, a nicer area but cross Main Street and yikes....trouble! I lived on Bannerman for 6 years. I then moved to the west end, I lived on Sherbrook...now that was an experience. You didn't need cable all you had to do was sit in front of your window and watch.

I now reside on a quiet street in the Maples....we've been here 4 years and neither of our vehicles have been touched, no graffiti on our property...nothing. Almost all living on our street are either seniors or younger families and almost all own their home.

So incognito, I have lived in the north end so I know what I'm talking about. There are pockets that are decent but they are becoming fewer....

Goth_chic wrote:I grew up in the north end. I attended Inkster school from k-6, I then attended Andrew Mynarski very briefly. We then moved to Garden City and I attended Jefferson Jr High, a way better school then Andrew was.

I moved out of my parents place and resided in Point Douglas for a few years...now that was an eye opening experience. Hookers hanging out in front of brothers grocery, dirty needles and used condoms littered the area. I then moved to Bannerman and Scotia, a nicer area but cross Main Street and yikes....trouble! I lived on Bannerman for 6 years. I then moved to the west end, I lived on Sherbrook...now that was an experience. You didn't need cable all you had to do was sit in front of your window and watch.

I now reside on a quiet street in the Maples....we've been here 4 years and neither of our vehicles have been touched, no graffiti on our property...nothing. Almost all living on our street are either seniors or younger families and almost all own their home.

So incognito, I have lived in the north end so I know what I'm talking about. There are pockets that are decent but they are becoming fewer....

Sounds like both the North End AND the West End are shitty areas. My father lives off of Colony, and some of the stories he's told me of the area would be enough to convince any person to not set foot in the area.

so, exactly where is the north end anyway?

What streets/intersections make up its boundaries?

Anywhere that crime takes place north of the tracks can be considered "the north end" I figure. Some reporters think that the boundry can be extended to "north of Portage Avenue".

yeah yeah... but seriously

I'm serious. Kinda.

It's the same as trying to define what our "downtown" is bounded by....Roslyn Road has a downtwon sign near it for example....is that the downtown? Same with the North End.

Personally anything north of portage is the north end. Anything south of portage is the south end anything east of main is the east end and anything west of main is the west end.

We are the City of Winnipeg as defined when all the mini cities joined up after all. Why should we be hamstrung by some long gone notion of what makes Winnipeg up?

It just makes it easier for reporters to write about the city this way.

The reporters are always bashing the north end...cause nothing bad ever happens there...

Ya. Really.

soo.. no one knows what used to define the northend? Little wonder then when a reporter makes a mistake and thinks something is in the northend.

according to the CBC. The North End does not even exist.
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/features/urbanmyths/index.html

As I remember it, going back 50 years, it was the tracks to W.K., the Red River to McPhillips-ish.

It's still the same I reckon...more or less a bit.

ahh but then that would include parts of point douglas too.. cant include point douglas in your description that would be wrong.

Heh...ya..it becomes "not me"....shades of someone from the old forum eh?

well that is sort of the reason I want to know what actually defines it. Like more then 1/3 of Winnipegers ( number pulled out of my ass ). I was not born and raised in Winnipeg so I never recieved a tour of the area with some official saying this part is the north end.. this is not.. etc etc. So when these articles do come out and some one says it is or isn;t the north end I have a fair idea of if it is or not. But nothing 100%.

So I am doing a google map. That will make it simple to determine. I just need the actual boundaries so I can make sure.

http://tinyurl.com/northend1

From a 20 years + north ender (and proud of it) the boundaries are the tracks between Logan and Dufferin to the south, north to Carruthers (one block north of Lansdowne st), east is the Red River and West is Fife Street with parts of the west boundary being Keewatin (along the Burrows area to include the co-op housing developments and the Shaunessy Park area). Just wanted to point out a couple of concepts, yes there is violence in the north end and yes it can be dangerous in some isolated neighbourhoods but there is violence in all areas of the city, it just may be more inside - you don't see the large grow ops in the north end, rather prevalent in the more "affluent" ares such as Linden Woods, Whyte Ridge and others. So if SH*t runs downhill and the big bosses are running the show for the little guys, look at the "affluent" areas for the root causes as the little criminals who are shooting off their guns are getting those guns from the higher ups in their gangs who operate out of the homes and "offices" in the "affluent" areas. It is people who continue to stigmatize the North End as being a bad area of town who make it so. At least when I sit out on my front porch in the summer I know who my neighbours are and we speak to one another and watch out for one another. Can that same be said about your neighbours in other areas??????? Most, but not all, like to keep to themselves for fear of having to acknowledge a neoghbour. I have lived in a more "affluent" area in North Kildonan and came back to the north end because of the community aspect of it and the lack of community in the neighbourhood I left.

so it includes parts of point douglas then?