Historic Sites of Manitoba: Safeway Store (630 Rosser Avenue, Brandon)

This one-storey brick building on Rosser Avenue in Brandon was constructed in 1929, at a cost of about $18,000, as a grocery for Safeway Stores Limited. The building has been extensively renovated from the original, and was occupied by a Habitat for Humanity Restore at the time of a 2022 site visit.

The former Safeway store at Boissevain

The former Safeway store at Brandon (July 2022)
Source: Jordan Makichuk

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.84831, W99.94683
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Manitoba Business: Safeway Stores Limited

Sources:

“New Brandon post office cost $150,000,” Winnipeg Tribune, 14 September 1929, page 6.

This page was prepared by Jordan Makichuk and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 17 November 2022

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