Fort Rouge was Winnipeg's first true suburb. The area prior to 1880 consisted of a few small farms and woodlots. In 1880, a bridge was built south from Main Street, and the following year, another was constructed south along Pembina Road (later known as Osborne Street). Main Street or Main Street America is an almost fanciful, dated reference to the main region of small town/suburban America, since it really no longer exists. ...

With the bridge in place to the city, a middle class neighbourhood developed. The houses in this area were quite modest is size and cost. This made it attractive to a variety of families of the middle and commercial classes as well as the more prosperous from the skilled trades. Most residents were of British Canadian backgrounds. This sense of community was reflected in the large churches that were constructed in the early 1900s along Nassau Street. Nassau Street is the main downtown thoroughfare of Princeton, New Jersey. ...

Fort Rouge was also the site of the Canadian Northern Rail shops and yards. Working class neighbourhoods developed around the yards. Many of the resident were able to walk the short distance to work. A few factories and warehouses appeared alongside the tracks and near the Red River as well. The term Red River has the following uses: Rivers Red River of the North, a river that flows northward between North Dakota and Minnesota into Lake Winnipeg, site of the Red River Settlement; also center of the Red River Valley, a historic region of the United States and Canada Red...