Building the Gingerbread City Hall

Winnipeg's Gingerbread City Hall was, for many years, a distinctive local landmark. It was demolished in 1962 amidst safety concerns and a larger push to modernize Winnipeg. Sabrina's not here to talk about that, though. Instead, we're talking about the construction of the Gingerbread City Hall and the many, many scandals that plagued it throughout the 1880s.