Asper Jewish Community Campus

Here, in 1906, the Provincial Government established the Manitoba Agricultural College to educate students in the practice of farming. It was the first college of its kind in Western Canada, and only the third in the country. Samuel Hooper, the first Provincial Architect, designed the original College buildings, setting them in a formal Edwardian plan, in which the buildings were arrayed around a long oval drive. By 1913 the College had outgrown this campus. It was relocated to a new Fort Garry site, which later became the campus of the University of Manitoba. Later, the site housed the Manitoba School for the Deaf and then Fort Osborne Army Barracks. 

 

The 1997 Asper Jewish Community Campus includes a combination of new and reused historic buildings. Now called the Rady Jewish Community Centre, it houses a comprehensive cultural, educational, recreational and social multi-use facility for Winnipeg’s Jewish community.