Provincial Road 236 (PR 236) is a north–south highway in the
Winnipeg Metropolitan Region
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of
Manitoba
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. It connects the town of
Stonewall with
Winnipeg
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,
Gordon
Gordon may refer to:
People
* Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters
* Gordon (surname), the surname
* Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War
* Gordon Heuck ...
, and
Balmoral.
Route description
PR 236 begins just east of
Gordon
Gordon may refer to:
People
* Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters
* Gordon (surname), the surname
* Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War
* Gordon Heuck ...
at a
Roundabout
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with
PTH 6 (
Northern Woods and Water Route
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) in the
Rural Municipality of Rosser
Rosser is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba, lying adjacent to the northwest side of Winnipeg and part of the Winnipeg Metro Region. Its population as of the 2016 Census was 1,372.
It is situated along Provincia ...
, not even away from the
North Perimeter Highway (PTH 101). The highway heads north through rural farmland for several kilometres, traversing a bridge over a creek before crossing into the
Rural Municipality of Rockwood
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at an intersection with
PR 321. Passing through rural areas for a few more kilometres, it enters the town of
Stonewall at an intersection with
PR 67, becoming
concurrent (overlapped) with PR 236 and the two head north along Fourth Street E through neighbourhoods and a business district as they bypass downtown along its eastern side. PTH 67 splits off shortly and PR 236 continues north, leaving Stonewall to have a junction with
PR 323. The highway now travels through the centre of
Balmoral, where it makes a sharp right turn, before coming to an end at an intersection with
PTH 7. The entire length of Provincial Road 236 is a paved two-lane highway.
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Major intersections
References
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Year 236 ( CCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Verus and Africanus (or, less frequently, year 989 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 23 ...