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Manitoba Trans-Canada Highway Route: the Manitoba #1 and the Ontario #17 between Winnipeg, Manitoba and Kenora, Ontario
Winnipeg, Manitoba to Kenora, Ontario
Here is the itinerary for the 207 km along the Manitoba #1 and the Ontario #17 between Winnipeg, Manitoba and Kenora, Ontario:
North of the Trans-Canada are Lake Manitoba and Lake Winnipeg, remnants of ancient Lake Agassiz, which at the time of the last Ice Age covered an area twice that of today's Great Lakes.
Winnipeg began as the key to western fur trading, first as Fort Rouge built by La Verendrye in 1738, then as Fort Gibraltar built by the North West Company in 1805, and finally as Fort Garry built by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1822. Lord Selkirk established his colony for Scottish settlement west of here in 1812, and by 1870, Winnipeg had 11,000 residents. Once the Trans-continental railway was built in the 1880s, Winnipeg became the hub for western distribution and trade in western wheat. Winnipeg was western Canada's largest city until overtaken by Vancouver after World War II, and by Calgary & Edmonton in the 1980s. Because of the significant early 20th century architecture, it is a popular location for Hollywood movies set in the 20s and 1930s (like the recent Academy Award-winning movie musical "Chicago").
Following the disastrous Winnipeg Flood of 1950, which damaged 10 thousand buildings and left 100,000 people homeless, a 48 kilometre channel around the city was completed in 1958. When Red River levels rise to a certain level, overflow is automatically diverted around the city, to flow downstream into Lake Winnipeg.
Much of the area southeast of Winnipeg was settled by the French, as evidienced by French town names like St Boniface, St Anne, Dufresne, St Peirre. The land along the Seine River is also laid out in narrow strips rising up from the river, just like the early settlements along the St Lawrence River in Quebec. About 70km east of Winnipeg is the exit for Steinbach, which was a settlement of Mennonites who were escaping religious persecution first in their native Holland, and later Russia. The land east of Richer is relatively infertile, and suitable only for cattle and raising forage crops (like hay).
As we move away from Winnipeg, drivers will notice a gentle rise in elevation towards the Ontario border. Waters in Manitoba flow quickly (1000 km) to sea level at Hudson's Bay, whereas Ontario rivers are part of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence basin, and must flow 2680 km into the Atlantic Ocean, at Quebec City. Shoal Lake, abut 10 km south of Falcon Lake (by air), is the starting point for the Shoal Lake aqueduct, built about a century ago to supply the city with 200 million litres a day of fresh drinking water.
At Falcon Lake, the landscape transition from gentle prairie landscape to the west to rugged Precambrain Canadian Shield. West Hawk Lake, just to the north, is believed to be caused by a meteor strike a few million years ago and is 120 metres deep, Manitoba's deepest lake. Other lakes in the area were created by Ice Age glaciers and are much shallower.
Lake of the Woods, which was known as Lake of the Islands by the area's First Nations, has over 100,000 miles of shoreline and 14,000 islands. The lake is popular for sports-fishing for walleye, pike smallmouth bass and lake trout, though the sturgeon and whitefish the lake had in numbers years ago are pretty depleted from commercial overfishing.
Kenora is a name agreed to by plebescite to be the new name of the municipal amalgamation of Keewatin (indan of "north) and Rat Portage, as in Ke-No-Ra. The community was a key fur-trading portage from Lake of the Woods to the Winnipeg River system.
Manitoba Government road condition reports for this segment.
Ontario Highways road condition reports for this segment.
KM from Start | Highway Point Description | Municipality | GPS and
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0 | 207 | Lord Selkirk Hwy (Hwy 75) interchange | Winnipeg | Map Zoom |
1 | 206 | Red River Bridge | Winnipeg | Map Zoom |
3 | 204 | St Mary's Rd interchange (WB only SB exit, WB only NB exit) | Winnipeg | Map Zoom |
7 | 200 | St Anne's Rd Highway 300 interchange | Winnipeg | Map Zoom |
8 | 199 | Railway underpass | Winnipeg | Map Zoom |
9 | 198 | Boulevard Lagimodiere Interchange (highway 20/59), S to Ile des Chenes (12 km) | Winnipeg | Map Zoom |
14 | 193 | Murdock Rd crossing, Traveller's RV Resort .5 km to N (Group 612, SS6, Winnipeg, MB R2C 2Z3 Tel: (204) 256-2186 ) | Winnipeg | Map Zoom |
16 | 191 | Avenue Fermor (W) interchange, with Hwy 1 TCH to east | Winnipeg | Map Zoom |
16 | 191 | Red River Floodway Crossing | Winnipeg | Map Zoom |
18 | 189 | Hwy 207 crossing, truck stop to N | Winnipeg | Map Zoom |
20 | 187 | Fantasy Lake Golf Course to N | | Map Zoom |
22 | 185 | Heatherdale Rd crosing | | Map Zoom |
24 | 183 | Chem Station Rd | | Map Zoom |
26 | 181 | Highway 206N, Municipal Rd 27E | | Map Zoom |
28 | 179 | Highway 206 (S) , to Lorette (10 km) | | Map Zoom |
32 | 175 | Highway 501 crossing east to Dufresne (3 km), St Genevieve | | Map Zoom |
36 | 171 | Highway 207 crossing | | Map Zoom |
43 | 164 | Junction Hwy #12, S to Ste Anne (3 km) and Steinbach (20 km), N to Anola (20km) | | Map Zoom |
47 | 160 | Municpal Rd 38E, Lilac Resort & RV Park (Ste Anne RPO, MB R5H 1C1 Tel: (204) 422-5760 ) | | Map Zoom |
49 | 158 | Municipal Rd 39E, access to Paradise Village (S) | | Map Zoom |
53 | 154 | Municipal Rd 41A, golf course to N & S | | Map Zoom |
58 | 149 | Highway 302 junction, S to town of Richer, N to camping: Wild Oaks (RR 1, Richer, MB R0E 1S0, Tel: (204) 422-6175 ) and Rock Garden Campground (30 Blossom Bay, Winnipeg, MB R3R 2V9, Tel: (204) 422-5441 ) | Richer | Map Zoom |
66 | 141 | Access to Restaurant Truck Stop and services | | Map Zoom |
74 | 133 | Trail 19, access to Reynolds | Reynolds | Map Zoom |
87 | 120 | Rest area, between EB and WB lanes | | Map Zoom |
98 | 109 | Junction Hwy 11 N to Hadashville, S to Whitemouth River RV Park (Hadashville, MB R0E 0X0 Tel: (204) 426-5367 ) | | Map Zoom |
100 | 107 | Hwy 503 (S) Old Dawson Trail | | Map Zoom |
106 | 101 | Hwy 506 (N) access to town of Prawda | Prawda | Map Zoom |
108 | 99 | Pine Tree Campground & Trailer Park (N) Grp 8, Prawda, MB R0E 0X0, Tel: (204) 426-5413 | | Map Zoom |
111 | 96 | Crossing the Birch River | | Map Zoom |
112 | 95 | Service, N side of Hwy | | Map Zoom |
113 | 94 | Highway splits up EB/WB, east of this point | McMunn | Map Zoom |
120 | 87 | Junction Gwy 308, S to East Braintree | West Braintree | Map Zoom |
124 | 83 | Wye Rd crossing | | Map Zoom |
141 | 66 | Entering Whiteshell PP, Pipeline Rd U-Turn | Falcon Lake | Map Zoom |
143 | 64 | Whiteshell Provincial Park offices, Camping | Falcon Lake | Map Zoom |
151 | 56 | Junction Hwy 301 | Falcon Lake | Map Zoom |
153 | 54 | Junction #44 N, West Hawk Lake, services | Falcon Lake | Map Zoom |
158 | 49 | Ontario-Manitoba Border, information kiosks | | Map Zoom |
161 | 46 | Granite Lake | | Map Zoom |
164 | 43 | Highway 673 S to Shoal Lake Indian Reservation 39A (9 km) | Shoal Lake | Map Zoom |
172 | 35 | Rush Bay Rd S | | Map Zoom |
182 | 25 | Rice Lake Rd N | | Map Zoom |
186 | 21 | McCallum Point Rd | | Map Zoom |
188 | 19 | Ash Rapids Lodge | | Map Zoom |
192 | 15 | Services, food & fuel | | Map Zoom |
192 | 15 | Entering Lake of The Woods Vacation Area | | Map Zoom |
195 | 12 | Junction Highway 17A & !7 (see note below) | | Map Zoom |
197 | 10 | Highway 641 junction | | Map Zoom |
202 | 5 | Keewatin Beach Rd, west exit | | Map Zoom |
203 | 4 | town of Keewatin business district, all services | Keewatin | Map Zoom |
203 | 4 | Keewatin Beach Rd, east exit | Keewatin | Map Zoom |
203 | 4 | Bridge over Winnipeg River/Lake of The Woods | Keewatin | Map Zoom |
205 | 2 | Ontario St, access to Hway596 N to Minaki, services to east | Keewatin | Map Zoom |
206 | 1 | Anchor Inn Resort & Marina | Keewatin | Map Zoom |
206 | 1 | Bridge over Winnipeg River/Lake of The Woods | | Map Zoom |
207 | 0 | Sylvan St, shopping to S | Kenora | Map Zoom |
207 | 0 | Bridge crossing, railway tracks to N, Generating Station | Kenora | Map Zoom |
KM from Start | Highway Point Description | Municipality | GPS and
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