Subdivisions of Winnipeg
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, is subdivided in different ways for different purposes. The suburbs and neighbourhoods of Winnipeg
take their names from former administrative districts, parishes, and geographic features.
. There are 15 wards, further subdivided into 230 neighbourhoods.
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
also includes two relatively densely-populated rural municipalities, outside of Winnipeg, for health planning. They include the R.M. of East St. Paul
in River East, and West St. Paul
in Seven Oaks.
There is also a separate set of 72 community centre areas, defining the catchment areas of community centre
s.
Community areas and neighbourhood clusters:
was defined for planning purposes in the 1980s by the three-government Core Area Initiative.
Within the Inner City, the Downtown Winnipeg
Zoning By-Law defines an area for regulation of downtown development, significantly smaller than the Downtown community area.
The Exchange District
is a National Historic Site of Canada.
, which also includes the town of Headingley
. The city itself is designated subdivision 11 040, further broken down into census tract
s and, in turn, into dissemination areas.
of 1972, which incorporated a number of cities, towns, and rural municipalities into a single larger city (previously administered under the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg
, since 1960) into Unicity
. Residents still refer to these historical communities:
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
take their names from former administrative districts, parishes, and geographic features.
City wards
As of 2002, the city is subdivided into five community committees, composed of city wards, each represented by a member of City CouncilWinnipeg City Council
The Winnipeg City Council is the governing body of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors.-2006-2010:Council elected in the 2006 election:-2010-2014:...
. There are 15 wards, further subdivided into 230 neighbourhoods.
- AssiniboiaAssiniboiaAssiniboia refers to a number of different locations and administrative jurisdictions in Canada. The name is taken from the Assiniboine First Nation.- District of Assiniboia:...
- Charleswood–Tuxedo
- St. Charles
- St. James–Brooklands
- East Kildonan–Transcona
- Elmwood–East Kildonan
- North KildonanNorth Kildonan-History:Originally there was only one large rural municipality known as Kildonan. In 1914, it was divided into the Rural Municipality of West Kildonan and the R.M. of East Kildonan. A petition to the provincial government led to a further division of East Kildonan.On January 1, 1925, the...
- Transcona
- City Centre
- Daniel McIntyre
- Fort Rouge–East Fort Garry
- River Heights–Fort Garry
- Lord Selkirk–West Kildonan
- Mynarski
- Old KildonanOld KildonanOld Kildonan is a city ward of Winnipeg, Manitoba, represented by a member of Winnipeg City Council. Before the City of Winnipeg Act of 1972, it was an independent rural municipality...
- Point DouglasPoint DouglasPoint Douglas is a part of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, surrounded by a bend in the Red River. It is the namesake of a larger city ward, represented by a member of Winnipeg City Council...
- Riel
- St. Boniface
- St. NorbertSt. NorbertSt. Norbert is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba.-Historical riding:The original riding of St. Norbert was established at the time of the province's creation in 1870. For the 1870 provincial election, it was divided into two separate ridings: St. Norbert North...
- St. VitalSt. VitalSt. Vital is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba.-Historical riding:The original St. Vital riding was established at the time of the province's creation in 1870, as one of twelve "francophone" constituencies...
Community areas, neighbourhood clusters, and neighbourhoods
For the purpose of health and community services, the city is subdivided into 12 community areas, broken down into 23 neighbourhood clusters (formerly Neighbourhood Resource Networks), in turn subdivided into the same 230 neighbourhoods which make up the city wards. Statistics Canada also reports census information subdivided this way for the purposes of city planning.The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is the governing body for healthcare regulation in an area of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Established in December 1999, the WRHA is one of 12 Regional Health Authorities in Manitoba responsible for coordinating health services in designated regions...
also includes two relatively densely-populated rural municipalities, outside of Winnipeg, for health planning. They include the R.M. of East St. Paul
East St. Paul, Manitoba
East St. Paul is a rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada. It is located north-east of and adjacent to the city of Winnipeg, and is part of the Winnipeg Metropolitan Area. The municipality encompasses and is bounded by the Red River to the west; the municipality of St. Clements to the north; the...
in River East, and West St. Paul
West St. Paul, Manitoba
West St. Paul is a rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada. It lies adjacent to the north side of Winnipeg, and directly west of the Red River. It is part of the Winnipeg Capital Region, and had a population of 4,357 as of the 2006 census...
in Seven Oaks.
There is also a separate set of 72 community centre areas, defining the catchment areas of community centre
Community centre
Community centres or community centers or jumping recreation centers are public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes. They may sometimes be open for the whole community or for a specialised group within...
s.
Community areas and neighbourhood clusters:
- Assiniboine South
- Assiniboine South
- DowntownDowntown WinnipegDowntown Winnipeg is centred around Portage Avenue and Main Street, and is bounded by the Assiniboine River on the south, Colony and Balmoral Streets on the west, Notre Dame Avenue, Princess Street, and Logan Avenue on the north, and the Red River on the east. It includes the Exchange District,...
- Downtown East
- Downtown West
- Fort GarryFort GarryFort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg. It was established in 1822 on or near the site of the North West Company's Fort Gibraltar. Fort Garry was named after Nicholas...
- Fort Garry North
- Fort Garry South
- Inkster
- Inkster East
- Inkster West
- Point DouglasPoint DouglasPoint Douglas is a part of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, surrounded by a bend in the Red River. It is the namesake of a larger city ward, represented by a member of Winnipeg City Council...
- Point Douglas North
- Point Douglas South
- River EastRiver EastRiver East is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was officially created by redistribution in 1979, and has formally existed since the provincial election of 1981. The riding is located on the northeast corner of the City of Winnipeg...
- River East East
- River East South
- River East West
- River HeightsRiver Heights, ManitobaRiver Heights is a neighbourhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada located south of the Assiniboine River, west of Fort Rouge at Cambridge Street, east of Edgeland St. adjacent to Tuxedo, and north of the Canadian National Railways mainline...
- River Heights East
- River Heights West
- St. Boniface
- St. Boniface East
- St. Boniface West
- St. James–Assiniboia
- St. James-Assiniboia East
- St. James-Assiniboia West
- St. VitalSt. VitalSt. Vital is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba.-Historical riding:The original St. Vital riding was established at the time of the province's creation in 1870, as one of twelve "francophone" constituencies...
- St. Vital North
- St. Vital South
- Seven OaksSeven Oaks (electoral district)Seven Oaks is a former provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created in 1956, and eliminated in 1989.The riding was located in north-end Winnipeg, and was safe for the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and New Democratic Party for most of its history.-List of...
- Seven Oaks East
- Seven Oaks West
- Transcona
Downtown and Inner City
The Inner CityInner city
The inner city is the central area of a major city or metropolis. In the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland, the term is often applied to the lower-income residential districts in the city centre and nearby areas...
was defined for planning purposes in the 1980s by the three-government Core Area Initiative.
Within the Inner City, the Downtown Winnipeg
Downtown Winnipeg
Downtown Winnipeg is centred around Portage Avenue and Main Street, and is bounded by the Assiniboine River on the south, Colony and Balmoral Streets on the west, Notre Dame Avenue, Princess Street, and Logan Avenue on the north, and the Red River on the east. It includes the Exchange District,...
Zoning By-Law defines an area for regulation of downtown development, significantly smaller than the Downtown community area.
The Exchange District
Exchange District
The Exchange District is a National Historic Site of Canada in the downtown area of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Just one block north of Canada's most famous intersection, Portage and Main, the Exchange District comprises approximately twenty city blocks and nearly 150 buildings.- History :The...
is a National Historic Site of Canada.
School divisions
Winnipeg is divided into school divisions, further subdivided into wards represented by several school trustees.- Louis Riel School DivisionLouis Riel School DivisionThe Louis Riel School Division is a school division in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada offering English-language, French immersion, and Français Partiel educations to its students. It was formed through the amalgamation of the St. Vital School Division and the St...
- Pembina Trails School DivisionPembina Trails School DivisionPembina Trails School Division is a school division in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.It operates one technical college in cooperation with the Louis Riel School Division called Winnipeg Technical College....
- River East Transcona School DivisionRiver East Transcona School DivisionRiver East Transcona School Division is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is the second largest school division in the province. It is composed of parts of what used to be two separate divisions the Transcona part of the Transcona-Springfield School Division and River East School Division, which...
- Seven Oaks School DivisionSeven Oaks School DivisionSeven Oaks School Division is a school division established on July 1959 in the north west area of Winnipeg, Manitoba. It takes in the neighbourhoods of West Kildonan, Garden City, the Maples, Riverbend, West St. Paul and St. Andrews....
- St. James–Assiniboia School Division
- Winnipeg School DivisionWinnipeg School DivisionThe Winnipeg School Division is the largest of six public school divisions in Winnipeg, serving 77 schools and over 33,000 students and their families in the central part of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.The division was founded in 1871...
Census subdivisions
The city is contained in the Winnipeg census metropolitan area (CMA), including several other municipalities, and the smaller Winnipeg census divisionDivision No. 11, Manitoba
Census Division No. 11 Winnipeg is located in the Winnipeg Capital Region of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. The City of Winnipeg is the Capital city of the province and comprises the largest portion of the census division. The population of the area as of the 2006 census was 636,177...
, which also includes the town of Headingley
Headingley
Headingley is a suburb of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It is approximately two miles out of the city centre, to the north west along the A660 road...
. The city itself is designated subdivision 11 040, further broken down into census tract
Census tract
A census tract, census area, or census district is a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census. Usually these coincide with the limits of cities, towns or other administrative areas and several tracts commonly exist within a county...
s and, in turn, into dissemination areas.
Unicity
Today's Winnipeg is the product of the City of Winnipeg ActCity of Winnipeg Act
The City of Winnipeg Act was enacted on July 21, 1971 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The act incorporated the municipalities of Charleswood, Fort Garry, North Kildonan, Old Kildonan, Tuxedo, East Kildonan, West Kildonan, St. Vital, Transcona, St. Boniface, St. James-Assiniboia, Winnipeg and the...
of 1972, which incorporated a number of cities, towns, and rural municipalities into a single larger city (previously administered under the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg
Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg
In 1960, the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg was created as a separate layer of municipal government in the metropolitan area of Winnipeg, Manitoba...
, since 1960) into Unicity
Unicity
The term Unicity refers to reforms in the structure of the metropolitan government of Winnipeg in 1972. Unicity, an ambitious experiment in local government reform, established the City of Winnipeg as one unified city; until that point, the greater Winnipeg area had been composed of several...
. Residents still refer to these historical communities:
- Charleswood (rural municipality)
- East Kildonan (city)
- Fort Garry (R.M.)
- HeadingleyHeadingley, ManitobaHeadingley is a rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada. It is located directly west of Winnipeg and has a population of 2,726 people as of the 2006 census. The Trans-Canada Highway and the Assiniboine River run through the municipality. The portion located on the south bank of the Assiniboine is...
(R.M., seceded from Unicity in 1993) - North KildonanNorth Kildonan-History:Originally there was only one large rural municipality known as Kildonan. In 1914, it was divided into the Rural Municipality of West Kildonan and the R.M. of East Kildonan. A petition to the provincial government led to a further division of East Kildonan.On January 1, 1925, the...
(R.M.) - Old KildonanOld KildonanOld Kildonan is a city ward of Winnipeg, Manitoba, represented by a member of Winnipeg City Council. Before the City of Winnipeg Act of 1972, it was an independent rural municipality...
(R.M.) - St. Boniface (city)
- St. James–Assiniboia (city)
- St. VitalSt. VitalSt. Vital is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba.-Historical riding:The original St. Vital riding was established at the time of the province's creation in 1870, as one of twelve "francophone" constituencies...
(city) - Transcona (city)
- TuxedoTuxedoA tuxedo is a type of semi-formal dress for men.Tuxedo may also refer to:-Places:Canada* Tuxedo, Winnipeg, Manitoba, a city neighborhood** Tuxedo , a provincial electoral district in Manitoba...
(town) - West KildonanWest KildonanWest Kildonan is a residential suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba, lying on the west side of the Red River, and immediately north of the old City of Winnipeg in the north-central part of the city...
(city) - WinnipegWinnipegWinnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
(city)