Wildwood Park, Winnipeg Explained

Wildwood Park
Settlement Type:Neighbourhood
Pushpin Map:Canada Winnipeg
Coordinates:49.847°N -97.13°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Canada
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Type2:Region
Subdivision Name2:Winnipeg Metro Region
Subdivision Type3:City ward
Subdivision Name3:Fort Rouge–East Fort Garry
Established Title:Established
Established Date:1946–47
Leader Title:MP
Leader Name:Ben Carr
Leader Title1:MLA
Leader Name1:Mark Wasyliw
Leader Title2:Councillor
Leader Name2:Sherri Rollins
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Total Km2:1.3
Area Metro Km2:5306.79
Elevation M:232
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population As Of:2016
Population Total:1,130
Population Density Km2:auto
Postal Code Type:Forward Sortation Area
Postal Code:R3T
Area Code:Area codes 204 and 431
Population Metro:778489

Wildwood Park (also spelled Wildewood) is a suburban, planned community in Winnipeg that has a central green space and no front roads (only back alleys), with communal walkways, playgrounds, and parks.

Nearly all of the original houses are based on five variations of three basic designs, pre-fabricated in one section of the site. The site plan concept is based on the Radburn community design of architects Henry Wright and Clarence Stein who advocated the idea of designing neighbourhoods for the "motor age". It varies from the original in the introduction of crescents (or loops) as the local access roads. It was developed in 1946–47 by Hubert Bird and designed by Green, Blankstein, Russell (GBR). It is well known as an early example of the Radburn pattern, which has found extensive application in the second half of the 20th century. It presages the emergence of the fused grid that uses the same principle of filtered permeability.

Governance

Wildwood Park is in the Fort Rouge–East Fort Garry city ward and the Pembina Trails School Division of Winnipeg. It corresponds to Statistics Canada's census dissemination area 110466, in census tract 0503.00, within the Winnipeg census division, part of the Winnipeg census metropolitan area. It comprises much of the Wildwood neighbourhood of Winnipeg, within the Fort Garry North neighbourhood cluster (according to how census data is reported for the city of Winnipeg). It is in the Fort Garry provincial electoral division (Fort Garry-Riverview from 2011 to 2019) and the Winnipeg South Centre federal electoral division (Winnipeg South prior to 2004). Before the unicity amalgamation in 1972, this was part of the Rural Municipality of Fort Garry.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2016 Census Dada – Wildwood . July 24, 2019. winnipeg.ca . November 24, 2019.