The year 1957 saw Winnipeg embroiled in the scandal of the Wolseley Elm growing out of the center of Wolseley Avenue, surrounded by a curb and a fringe of grass that Ripley's Believe It or Not declared was the smallest park in the world.
En 1957 Winnipeg viuse envolta no escándalo do Olmo Wolseley, que medraba no medio da Avenida Wolseley, rodeado por un bordo e un pouco de herba e que foi declarado o parque máis pequeno do mundo.