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Originally Posted by bomberjet
Fort Rouge seems to be a larger compilation of neighbourhoods. Much like East Kildonan is a compilation of neighbourhoods.
Also, River Heights is bounded by Cambridge in the east and the tracks to the west. Academy on the north and the tracks again on the south.
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Right, just like Crestview, Woodhaven, Silver Heights, Deer Lodge, etc. are neighbourhoods within St. James-Assiniboia.
The boundaries are the Assiniboine River to the north, technically Edgeland to the west, although many people might mistakenly put the boundary at Kenaston and consider Tuxedo to start west of there, certainly not the tracks as Renfrew, Lanark, Beaverbrook, Centennial, Lockwood and Carpathia which are west of the tracks are definitely considered River Heights. Parker, Waverley and Wilkes are the southern boundary.
Note that the lot lines south of the Assiniboine in what was St. Boniface West follow the pattern of the St. Vital (but not St. Boniface East!) but only as far as Cambridge, which perfectly aligns to McPhillips if you go straight north on a map and represents the two mile limit. On the north bank the St. James lots extended as far as Colony Creek. So it seems obvious now that Fort Rouge is the old east-west lots oriented to the Red River while in River Heights the lots are north-south and oriented to the Assiniboine. As the land was rather marshy and wooded it was poorly settled before urban development commenced in the 1890s. Now this has got me questioning where the ferries were located before the Maryland Bridge opened in 1894 and the CNR Oak Point Bridge opened in 1908.