Tuxedo, Winnipeg

Suburb of Winnipeg, Canada
the suburb

Tuxedo is a residential suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is located about 7 kilometres (4.5 miles) southwest of downtown Winnipeg and borders the Assiniboine River and Assiniboine Park on the north, Shaftesbury Boulevard on the west, Route 90 to the East and McGillvary Boulevard to the South. Prior to 1972, the community was incorporated as the Town of Tuxedo. Tuxedo is part of the city ward of Charleswood Tuxedo Westwood, as well as belonging to the provincial electoral district of Tuxedo, and the federal electoral district of Winnipeg South Centre.

Tuxedo was named after Tuxedo Park, a village in Orange County, New York.

What is known today as Tuxedo began when the land was purchased by a group of businessmen between 1903 and 1910 in order to establish a planned "exclusive residential only suburban enclave" on behalf of American investors Frederick E. Kenaston, E. C. Warner, and Walter D. Douglas, began to purchase land in this area for a residential development. The company acquired farmland owned by Mary and Archibald Wright which, along with several smaller land purchases, brought the total area to about 1,200 hectares (3,000 acres). To transform the native scrub vegetation to what Heubach envisioned as a “Suburb Beautiful,” he hired architect and engineer Rickson A. Outhet of New York City to create an appropriate plan. The Outhet plan was never implemented. In 1910, after acquiring additional land, Heubach and associates created the South Winnipeg Company, which absorbed the Tuxedo Park Company, and hired American landscape architects Olmsted Brothers to plan the subdivision. Their plan including a site intended for the University of Manitoba which, at the time, was located in downtown Winnipeg. Development of the area was delayed for a variety of reasons but investors continued to support the venture and a number of companies were created to manage land transactions and investment: Tuxedo (Winnipeg) Syndicate Limited, South Winnipeg Limited (later South Winnipeg 1923 Limited), Norwood (Winnipeg) Syndicate Limited, Warner Land Company, Tuxedo Estates Limited, Kenaston Realty Company, University Estates Limited, Assiniboine Estates Limited, Assiniboine Investments Limited, South Assiniboine Estates Limited, West Rydal Limited, and The Canadian Agency. The Town of Tuxedo was formally incorporated on 24 January 1913, with Heubach as its first mayor and a four member council. Other mayors included David R. Finkelstein (served 1915–1951), Cecil A. R. Lamont (1952–1961), and Clive K. Tallin (1961–1971). The Town had its own police department, fire department, and recreation commission, and was part of a health unit including St. James, Assiniboia, St. Vital, Fort Garry, and Charleswood. There were three public schools in the Town, managed by the Assiniboine South School Division No. 3, including Tuxedo School No. 1709, opened in 1927. Also in the late 1920s was the creation of Heubach Park, a purely residential subdivision within Tuxedo. that Grant Avenue would be extended through the Town of Tuxedo. In the mid 1950s, a project to extend Grant Avenue through Tuxedo and onto Charleswood terminating at Roblin Boulevard would lead to the bisection of Heubach Park. However, Tuxedo mayor Cecil Lamont was opposed to this plan and preferred that the major thoroughfare be placed southward near Eldride. The initial portion of the new subdivision would be located west of Heubach Park between Corydon Avenue and Mountbatten Road. Until the 1960s, retail locations were prohibited in Tuxedo. Rules were eased to allow an apartment complex and small shopping mall, Tuxedo Park Shopping Centre, which opened on 30 October 1963. Liquor sales followed suit in 1969. In 1972, Tuxedo amalgamated with Winnipeg and 12 other suburbs in the Unicity scheme. Records for the Tuxedo Park Company, as well as municipal records for Tuxedo, are now held at the City of Winnipeg Archives. In the early 1990s, Larry Fleisher, who then represented Tuxedo at Winnipeg City Council, requested that $250,000 be spent on making Heubach Park nicer, and that the project commence by 1993. In the 2010s, commercial development of Tuxedo South led to the opening of several shopping areas, including an IKEA store, an Outlet Collection mall, and Seasons of Tuxedo big box cluster.

+2016 Population of Tuxedo2016 Pop. Area
km2. Old Tuxedo9150.8Tuxedo2,2452.4South Tuxedo3,4402.1Tuxedo Industrial5456.6TOTAL7,14511.9

Tuxedo has a low crime rate. The table below shows the crime rates of various crimes in each of the Tuxedo neighbourhoods. The crime data spans 5 years from the year 2017 to the year 2021. The rates are crimes per 100,000 residents per year. +Crime Rates per 100,000 people in Tuxedo Neighbourhoods, 2017 2021NeighbourhoodPop. HomicideRate RobberyRateAgr. Aslt. RateCmn. Aslt. RateUtt. Threat RatePropertyRateAssiniboine Park00 3 2 8 2 98 Edgeland1,25500.023366.524382.561972.125398.45729,115.5Old Tuxedo91500.000.010218.6801,748.621459.02114,612.0South Tuxedo3,44000.0423.3211.61269.8423.33401,976.7Tuxedo2,24500.013115.8762.439347.414124.72772,467.7Tuxedo Industrial54500.0291,064.214513.8321,174.326954.11,41351,853.2Tuxedo8,40000.072171.459140.5232552.492219.02,9116,931.0

Tuxedo is host to one elementary school, Ecole Tuxedo Park School and one public high school, Shaftesbury High School. It is also host to two private schools: Gray Academy of Jewish Education and St. Paul's High School.