Provincial Trunk Highway 44 (PTH 44) is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It begins at Highway 9 near Lockport, north of Winnipeg. The highway travels east through Beausejour before heading southeast in concurrency with Highway 11 for approximately and then continues southeast through

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. PTH 44 ends at the

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near the

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boundary. It is a substandard highway through Whiteshell Park, more comparable to a Provincial Road with little to no shoulder and an uneven driving surface. The speed limit along Highway 44 is outside Whiteshell Park and between and within the park.

History

PTH 44 was originally part of ''

Highway 1 The following highways are numbered 1. For roads numbered A1, see list of A1 roads. For roads numbered B1, see list of B1 roads. For roads numbered M1, see List of M1 roads. For roads numbered N1, see list of N1 roads. For roads numbered ...

''. When the new Highway 1 route was completed as part of the

project in 1958, this section became part of transprovincial '' Highway 4'' (along with current Highways 9, 16, and 26). The highway was renumbered to its current designation in 1968.

Major intersections

References

{{MBHighways 044 Former segments of the Trans-Canada Highway