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Business View Magazine
Riverside Lions
Providing housing, security, and hope for seniors
Riverside Lions Estates and Riverside Lions Senior
Residences are affordable, seniors housing facilities
in the St. Vital area of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Both buildings were founded by the Riverside Lions
Club, a 67-year member of Lions Club International,
the world’s largest service organization, with more
than 1.3 million members participating in 45,000
clubs, in over 200 countries.
Laura Devlin, is Riverside Lions’ Executive Director.
She recounts how the two housing projects came
into being: “The Riverside Lions Club incorporated in
1948, and from the start, the Club did a lot of work
in the community, especially in regard to supporting
schools, children, and families. And that continues till
today. In the early 1980s, they began the process of
planning and building a quality, affordable, barrier-free
residence for both adult persons living with a disability
and persons over 55 years of age. It became the first
apartment building of its kind in Canada designed to
provide adults living with a disability, incorporating a
quality housing design and highly-affordable rents. In-
corporated in 1982, and opening in 1984, Riverside
Lions Estates very quickly filled all 130 apartments,
and our waitlist built to a six-year wait, where it has es-
sentially remained ever since.”
