Historic Sites of Manitoba: Mount Royal Apartments (36 Navy Way, Winnipeg)

This three-storey brick block on Navy Way (formerly a portion of Smith Street) in Winnipeg, measuring 60 feet by 115 feet, was designed and built in 1926 by owners Viglundur Andrjesson Davidson and Metusalem Jonsson Thorarinson at a cost of about $76,000. The building had 31 apartments in its original configuration.

Mount Royal Apartments, east and south elevations (April 2020) Source: Nathan Kramer Mount Royal Apartments, west and north elevations (April 2020) Source: Nathan Kramer Mount Royal Apartments (December 2020) Source: George Penner Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.88609, W97.13811 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Viglundur Andrjesson Davidson (1884-1938)

Memorable Manitobans: Metusalem Jonsson “Salli” Thorarinson (1888-1946)

Sources:

City of Winnipeg Building Permit 295/1926, City of Winnipeg Archives.

“Early Icelandic builders in Winnipeg” by S. Aleck Thorarinson, Logberg Heimskringla, 30 March 1967, page 7.

Mount Royal Apartments, 36 Navy Way by Murray Peterson, Peterson Projects, February 2008.

Find a Postal Code, Canada Post.

Preparation of this page was supported, in part, by the Gail Parvin Hammerquist Fund of the City of Winnipeg.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer, Gordon Goldsborough, and George Penner.

Page revised: 1 June 2022

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