576 Flora Avenue was the home of the Martin and Anastazia Bobowsky and their children Olga, Paul, Angela, Bill and Millie from about 1920 to 1924. It was located about a block east of 625 Flora where the family lived in 1917 – 1918. Angela’s memoirs, written about 75 years later, include a chapter recording her recollections of living on Flora Avenue as a young girl.
The Bobowsky family was enumerated living at 576 Flora in the 1921 Canadian census taken in June. There were no boarders living in the house. The 1921, 1922 and 1923 editions of the Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory list Martin at this address. The entry below is from the 1923 Directory, page 583.
According to the 1921 census 576 Flora was a four room detached wooden house. Old family snapshots that were probably taken at Flora Avenue show a wooden house with clapboard siding that probably did not have a basement. The 1921 census records the building as a wood house. The house at 576 Flora was probably demolished in the late 1940s and the land where it stood now forms part of the the parking lot of St. Vladamir & Olga Ukrainian cathedral which opened in 1951.
At the end of 1923 or beginning of 1924 the Bobowsky family moved to Burrows Avenue.