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Manitoba Trans-Canada Highway Route: the Highway #1 between Brandon and Winnipeg, Manitoba
Here is the itinerary for the 219 km along Highway #1 between Brandon and Winnipeg, Manitoba:
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.
Brandon is a major wheat shipment point, and has been so since 1883. The Brandon experimental farm has been a leader in developing a dozen new and ever-hardier strains of wheat (and corn) for growing on the Canadian prairies.
East of Brandon are the Carberry Sand Hills, south of the highway, resulting from sands deposited on the bottom of Lake Agassiz. This area has natural sand hills covered with white spruce, tamarack and black spruce. The hills are home to diverse animal species including the northern prairie skink (Manitoba's only lizard), hognosed snake, plains spadefoot toad, woodchuck, eastern chipmunk along with birds ruffed grouse, pileated woodpecker, gray jay,and like bluebirds (in bird houses found around the area). The sandy soils (on non-protected lands) are ideal for cultivating potatoes, which are processed by a plant near Carberry. Another popular crop are sunflowers. Early settlers also stabilized the dunes with various grasses, which has since made the ground stable enough for shrubs and even some trees.
Between MacGregeor and Portage La Prairie, you will notice rail lines on both sides of the highway. The tracks to the south are Canadian Pacific (CPR) heading to Vancouver via Regna and Calgary, and the tracks to the north are Canadian National (CNR) heading to Vancouver via Saskatoon and Edmonton. What is notable is that from Portage La Prairie the CNR (built at tascpayer expense to provide competition to the CPR, and help settle more northerly regions of Canada) started labeling station & town names in alphabetical order, beginning here with Arona, Bloom, and Caye and continuing for several alphabet cycles into western Saskatchewan.
The first European settlers in this part of Manitoba were Scottish & Irish who settled the land west of Fort Garry (now Winnipeg) after 1817 following Lord Selkirk's treaty with the Indians for land along the riverbanks. To provide settlers equal access to water, the lots here are very narrow strips from the river, typically 3200 metres long and 240 metres wide. French fur traders also settled here, and married and bred with the local Saulteaux and Cree Indians. Their mixed-race offspring were called Metis. Manitoba's pre-Confederation population was largely French-speaking, including a significant portion of Metis. When Manitoba first became a province in 1870, these early settlers rebelled against government surveyors started creating townships with land laid out 1 mile square sections, regardless of geography and pre-existing land allocations. This was became the First Northwest Rebellion of 1869. A later resurgence in 1885, was led by Louis Riel who was eventually arrested by the North West Mounted Police and hanged.
Portage La Prairie began as Fort La Reine, a fur trading post at a shallow spot on the Assiniboine River that flows east to what is now Winnipeg. A replica of that first fort exists today. The rich black loam soils from this point east are ideal for growing a range of crops including cabbage, carrots, corn, onions, potatoes, sugar beets, and tomatoes.
The area between Portage La Prairie and Winnipeg was the northern limit of the original tall grass Prairie that covered the North American Plains, and was home to vast herds of bison that once roamed free. Over the past century or so of settlement and agriculture, much of these have been destroyed but a small patch remains, and is protected at Winnipeg's Living Prairie Museum. About 10 km west of Winnipeg is the Principal Meridian, used as the reference point for the surveying of the prairies west to the Rocky Mountains (the Fifth Meridian passes through Calgary).
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Manitoba Government road condition reports for this segment.
KM from Start | Highway Point Description | Municipality | GPS and
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0 | 219 | Junction Hwy 10 S, 18th St N, access to Highland Ave service roads to N & S, Brandon, Boissevain | Brandon | |
0 | 219 | Access to N Service Rd | Brandon | |
1 | 218 | Access via Black St to Highland Ave (S Service Rd) | Brandon | |
2 | 217 | Junction Hwy 10 N, 1st St (and Hwy 1A S) to downtown City of Brandon, N to Brandon airport (3 km) | Brandon | |
10 | 209 | Hwy 468 junction | | |
18 | 201 | Hwy 340 S junction, S to Wawanesa | | |
27 | 192 | Hwy 464, north to Brookdale | | |
28 | 191 | Hwy 351 junction, E to Carberry (16 km), access to Sprucewoods Provincial Park | Carberry | |
43 | 176 | Hwy 5, S to Carberry (3 km), Sprucewoods Provincial Park (25 km), N to Wellwood | Carberry | |
61 | 158 | Hwy 351 junction, W to Carberry (17 km), access to Sprucewoods Provincial Park | Carberry | |
63 | 156 | Hwy 352 N, S to village of Sidney (1 km), N to Firdale | Sidney | |
65 | 154 | Shady Oaks Resort R V Park | | |
75 | 144 | Junction Hwy 34, S to Austin | Austin | |
77 | 142 | Springbook Rd, S to Austin, Manitoba Agricultural Museum, camping | Austin | |
85 | 134 | Rosehill Rd, west access to Macgregor | Macgregor | |
87 | 132 | MacaIvey Rd, access to Magregor, S of TCH | Macgregor | |
89 | 130 | Hwy 350 junction, access to Macgregor, S to Woodside | Macgregor | |
98 | 121 | Junction Hwy 242, N to Westbourne | | |
110 | 109 | Junction 305 S, start of Yellowhead Highway W to Prince Rupert BC (Hwy 16) | | |
116 | 103 | Cross Irrigation Channel | | |
118 | 101 | Junction Hwy 1A, Saskatchewan Ave W to downtown Portage La Prairie (TCH bends south around PLP) | Portage La Prairie | |
121 | 98 | Crescent Rd W, access to reservioir, S of Hwy | Portage L Prairie | |
125 | 94 | Crescent Rd E (N) to downtown PLP, and River Rd (S), provincial Rd 240, Filtration plant to SE of intersection | Portage L Prairie | |
126 | 93 | Angle Rd crossing | Portage L Prairie | |
128 | 91 | Access to service roads | Portage L Prairie | |
129 | 90 | Junction Hwy 1A west to downtown Portage La Prairie (TCH bends south around PLP) | Portage L Prairie | |
130 | 89 | Junction hwy 26 N to Poplar Point, truckstop to south | Portage L Prairie | |
136 | 83 | Millers Campground R.V. Park, north side | | |
139 | 80 | Crossing the Assiniboine River | | |
139 | 80 | Portage la Prairie R V Park and Campground | | |
145 | 74 | Junction Hwy 13 S, Highway #430 N, crossing the La Salle River | | |
154 | 65 | Hwy 331 S & W to town of Fortier | | |
157 | 62 | Bernard Rd, S to Bernard | Bernard | |
164 | 55 | Hwy 248 S to town of Elie | Elie | |
180 | 39 | Hwy 241, west bank of LaSalle River, S to Beaudry PP | | |
182 | 37 | Crossing Assiniboine River | | |
182 | 37 | Junction Hwy 26 N, to St Francis Xavier | | |
190 | 29 | Taylor Bridge S to Roblin Blvd | | |
193 | 26 | Access to ball diamonds to S | | |
193 | 26 | Drive-In theatre to N | | |
195 | 24 | Race Track to N | | |
196 | 23 | Hwy 100,101 cloverleaf interchange, access to Caron Rd and Roblin Blvd. EB traffic, bypassing WPG head south. Downtown WPG E on Portage Avenue. | Winnipeg | |
196 | 23 | Cross Assiniboine River | Winnipeg | |
198 | 21 | Roblin Blvd half-cloverleaf interchange | Winnipeg | |
200 | 19 | Wilkes Ave (E) and Hwy 427 W interchange | Winnipeg | |
206 | 13 | Oakland Rd crossing | Winnipeg | |
207 | 12 | McGillivray Blvd intersection, Hwy 3 W to OakBluff and Sanford | Winnipeg | |
208 | 11 | Hwy 2 West interchange to OakBluff and Starbuck | Winnipeg | |
213 | 6 | Railway underpass | Winnipeg | |
214 | 5 | Hwy 330 S intersection, S to LaSalle | Winnipeg | |
218 | 1 | waverly WB exit | Winnipeg | |
219 | 0 | Pembina Highway underpass (no access) | Winnipeg | |
219 | 0 | Lord Selkirk Hwy (Hwy 75) interchange | Winnipeg | |
221 | -2 | Red River Bridge | Winnipeg | |
223 | -4 | St Mary's Rd interchange (WB only SB exit, WB only NB exit) | Winnipeg | |
226 | -7 | St Anne's Rd Highway 300 interchange | Winnipeg | |
227 | -8 | Railway underpass | Winnipeg | |
228 | -9 | Boulevard Lagimodiere Interchange | Winnipeg | |
233 | -14 | Murdock Rd crossing, Traveller's RV Resort .5 km to N (Group 612, SS6, Winnipeg, MB R2C 2Z3 Tel: (204) 256-2186 ) | Winnipeg | |
235 | -16 | Avenue Fermor (W) interchange, with Hwy 1 TCH to east | Winnipeg | |
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