


The Business Development Bank of Canada, the holder of the loan, tried to sell the property, but the former owner refused to let solicitors onto the site, located just east of Winnipeg on the Trans-Canada Highway.īDC brought in a receiver to take over the assets and undertakings of the property.

COVID-19 related measures forced it to stay shut for the better part of two summers. The blaze marks the final slide for the one-time popular water park that was forced to close when the then-owners defaulted on a loan worth more than $850,000. Seaton said the fire was fully involved when crews from two of the department’s fire halls arrived. The fire, which gutted the former restaurant and gift shop, is under investigation.īrian Seaton, fire chief in the RM of Springfield, said Monday the fire broke out around 3 a.m.

“When I got closer, I realized it was Fun Mountain and I called it in to 911.” “When I saw the glow, I thought it was going to be Fun Mountain,” he said. Stein was driving home on the east Perimeter Highway when he saw an orange glow in the sky ahead of him and he started heading for it. That was the place to go.”Ī fire destroyed a building at the former Fun Mountain water slide park east of Winnipeg Saturday night. “I spent most of my childhood there,” said Stein, “especially as a teenager. Stein said, like many Winnipeggers, he spent a lot of time zipping down the slides when the days of summer seemed like they would never end. Steve Stein couldn’t help but think of long-ago summers as he watched flames destroy a building at the former Fun Mountain water slide park east of Winnipeg.
