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Originally Posted by Curmudgeon
When they were referred together as the portion of the city south of the Assiniboine, yes they were called the South End. But most of the time they were treated as completely separate and distinct areas .
Funny thing though is I don't think there ever was or is a generally accepted boundary between the two areas. Some people considered it to be Stafford while others thought it was Cambridge, certainly north of Grosvenor Crescentwood extends to Cambridge and that's where the lot lines change direction (what street is the Parish line between St. Boniface and St. Charles?, I can't see it being Cambridge as the entire South End except the lots between Kenaston and Edgeland was annexed into Winnipeg in 1882). I grew up thinking it was Harrow for some reason and I think most people think of Grant Park as in River Heights. Fascinating that a shanty town, Rooster Town, once existed in the Grant Park area. Its destruction and the forced relocation of its residents is a shameful part of Winnipeg's history.
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The boundary between parishes of St. Charles and St. Boniface is Kenaston, or at least somewhere between Doncaster and Lockwood Streets.
The subdivision promoted as River Heights was smaller than what is now called River Heights, but eventually the name came to mean all of the area, and names like Cordova Heights, Centennial Park, and Braeside are lost to history (but still can be found on old maps).
I don't know of anyone who's considered anything east of Cambridge St. River Heights, though I've heard some people (eg, real estate agents) call the area around Warsaw and Stafford "Crescentwood." Clearly a bit of a stretch there. Smaller areas with commonly-understood names aside (Osborne Village, Crescentwood, Riverview), I think of everything between Cambridge and the Red as Fort Rouge. Throw in River Heights and you've got the South End.