Route 20 (known locally as Lagimodière Boulevard) is a major north-south arterial route in the city of

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. It is also part of

Manitoba Highway 59 Provincial Trunk Highway 59 (PTH 59) is a major provincial highway in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It runs from the Lancaster-Tolstoi Border Crossing (where it meets with U.S. Highway 59), through the city of Winnipeg, north to 8th Avenue ...

, the only Provincial Trunk Highway (other than the

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) that crosses through the city.

Route description

At about , it is one of the longest roads in the city. It begins in the northeast, running through the suburb of

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before becoming the boundary between the suburbs of

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and

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. South of the CNR Redditt line, it enters the eastern section of

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, passing by the CNR Symington Yards and the

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before crossing the

Perimeter Highway Provincial Trunk Highways (PTH) 100 and 101, collectively known as the Perimeter Highway, form a beltway around the Canadian city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Perimeter Highway is approximately in length and serves as a ring road around Winnipeg ...

and leaving the city in the extreme southern part of

. Route 20 maintains

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standards through Winnipeg, generally as a 4-lane divided route, and has an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit for the most part, except for a brief section in the north end at Regent Avenue where the speed limit drops to 70 km/h (45 mph), and a section after the North Kildonan overpass where the speed limit raises to 90 km/h

History

During the 1960s, Highway 59 between the Trans-Canada and the North Perimeter Highways was rebuilt to the east of its original route, which followed what is now Molson Street, Panet Road,

Dawson Road The colonization roads were created during the 1840s and 1850s to open up or provide access to areas in Central and Eastern Ontario for settlement and agricultural development. The colonization roads were used by settlers to lead them toward are ...

, and Speers Road. Following its completion, the newly reconstructed road was named Lagimodière Boulevard, after

Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière (25 December 1778 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec – 7 September 1855 in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba) was a French-Canadian trapper employed in the fur trade by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land. Lagimodière ...

, an early pioneer of St. Boniface.

Major intersections

References

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