There’s a wonderfully quirky and little-known information archive in downtown Winnipeg that predates Google and probably has more hidden secrets than the search engine giant. It’s a rich resource for researchers, a rabbit hole for history lovers and a trivia buff’s bonanza. Did you know: Winnipeg’s first civic holiday was observed Sept. 16, 1874? That Winnipeg’s first professional photographer offered to trade photos for wood or flour? You can find, in this paper-based Winnipeg Public Library archive, the seating capacity of all of Winnipeg’s movie theatres in 1978, or the minimum wage rates for every year between 1921 (25 cents) and 2003 ($6.75). Welcome to the Where File — as in “where can I find this?” or “where do I go for that?” or “where are those?” Louis-Philippe Bujold goes through some of the entries in the Where File.