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Old Posted May 14, 2019, 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted by esquire View Post
Good rule of thumb. How reliable is it, though? Can I say that Grosvenor and Stafford is still Fort Rouge?
You really got me thinking (and daydreaming).

According to the inset on this map, Crescentwood looks to be part of one large river lot, while there were two lots of St Boniface West to the north that extended only to the bend in the Assiniboine (the left bank of this bend being Armstrong's Point).

https://hallnjean2.files.wordpress.c...f-wpg-1870.png

On a plan of Crescentwood dating to 1917 (check out the North East Winnipeg Historical Society's online maps) the south boundary is the line which is today the lane between Yale and Grosvenor and running west to Cambridge. So Grosvenor itself is not in Crescentwood. Interestingly, Oxford St. and the east side of Waverley north of Kingsway and the river properties on Wellington Cres. as far west as Elm Street are shown as being part of Crescentwood as they were also purchased by the developer C.H. Enderton. So yes, Grosvenor and Stafford is in Fort Rouge.

Wellington Crescent and Pembina Highway were old trails. The Osborne Bridge opened in 1882 so perhaps traffic from the south and southwest crossed there and prior to that nearer to the Forks. Winnipeg's first waterworks (privately owned and operated) were located near the foot of Maryland. Until 1913 there were two roadways named Pembina. Pembina Street which ran from Spadina south to the river. This was renamed Osborne Street from 1913, before 1913 Osborne ran south from Broadway over the bridge and ended looking dead on to the Bank of Montreal at Spadina (now Stradbrook). Pembina St started from Spadina at an offset intersection which would be where the current fire hall now stands. Also there was Pembina Road, today's Pembina Hwy. In the Henderson's Directories from the mid 1890s there is mention of Pembina Street but not Pembina Road. Did the opening of the Northern Pacific make access to Pembina Road north of Jubilee difficult due to having to cross two sets of tracks? Pembina St. School was on the west side south of Corydon but before the Northern Pacific (later Canadian Northern which was absorbed into the CNR) tracks. South of the tracks there were just two residences and St. Mary's Cemetery, even though by this time River and Elm Parks had opened and River Park was served by Park Line streetcars at least during the summer season.
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