This was the first location of Ms. Purdy’s Women’s Bar, which opened in 1984. It was located in the historic MacDonald Block. Ms. Purdy’s was a Lesbian bar and meeting place, which was almost exclusively for women, but men were allowed in for concerts. It moved to a new location in 1990.
Sources:
* http://heritagewinnipeg.blogspot.com/2015/09/heritage-on-main-macdonald-and-fortune.html
* http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/commercialhotel.shtml