Description

This 1905-built, pillar-post home in the Winnipeg Francophone city of St. Boniface was the birthplace and childhood home of famed author Gabrielle Roy, whose novel The Tin Flute, penned while she lived in Quebec and was earning a living as a journalist, established her as a writer of international repute. The book attracted so much attention that the reclusive Roy returned to Manitoba to live. She continued to write while teaching in northern Manitoba, and later while living in Winnipeg again. Her childhood home was restored and turned into a museum in 2005.