Tuxedo, Winnipeg

Tuxedo was named after Tuxedo Park, a village in Orange County, New York.{{Cite web |title=Tuxedo: Winnipeg's unique and classy suburb |url=https://www.winnipegregionalrealestatenews.com/publications/real-estate-news/4255/tuxedo-winnipeg-s-unique-and-classy-suburb |access-date=2021-06-28 |website=www.winnipegregionalrealestatenews.com |language=en-ca}}{{cite web| url=http://www.winnipegarchitecture.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Web-Exhibit-Tuxedo-1.pdf | title=Tuxedo | access-date=2024-02-14}}

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"

Between 1903 and 1905, the Tuxedo Park Company Limited, directed by Winnipeg-based real estate agent Frederick W. Heubach{{Cite web|title=Memorable Manitobans: Frederick William Heubach (1859-1914)|url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/heubach_fw.shtml|website=www.mhs.mb.ca|access-date=2020-05-24}} on behalf of American investors Frederick E. Kenaston,{{Cite web|url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/kenaston_fe.shtml|title=Memorable Manitobans: Frederick Eugene Kenaston (1853-1932)|website=www.mhs.mb.ca|access-date=2020-02-11}} 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."An aesthetic sub-division," Manitoba Free Press, 17 April 1906, page 5. The Outhet plan was never implemented.{{Cite web|url=https://winnipeginfocus.winnipeg.ca/town-of-tuxedo-manitoba-fonds|title=Tuxedo (Man.) - City of Winnipeg Archives|website=winnipeginfocus.winnipeg.ca|access-date=2019-10-08}}

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),{{Cite web|url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/finkelstein_dr.shtml|title=Memorable Manitobans: David R. Finkelstein (1880-1952)|website=www.mhs.mb.ca|access-date=2020-02-11}} Cecil A. R. Lamont (1952–1961),{{Cite web|url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/lamont_car.shtml|title=Memorable Manitobans: Cecil Alexander Ralph Lamont (1901-1982)|website=www.mhs.mb.ca|access-date=2020-02-11}} and Clive K. Tallin (1961–1971).{{Cite web|url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/tallin_ck.shtml|title=Memorable Manitobans: Clive Kerslake Tallin (1907-1985)|website=www.mhs.mb.ca|access-date=2020-02-11}} 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,{{Cite web|url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/tuxedoparkschool.shtml|title=Historic Sites of Manitoba: Tuxedo School No. 1709 / Tuxedo Park School (2300 Corydon Avenue, Winnipeg)|website=www.mhs.mb.ca|access-date=2020-02-11}} opened in 1927. Also in the late 1920s was the creation of Heubach Park, a purely residential subdivision within Tuxedo.

The Metropolitan Planning Commission indicated as far back as 1946{{Cite book|last=Thrift|first=Eric|title=Metropolitan Plan for Greater Winnipeg|publisher=Metropolitan Planning Committee & Winnipeg Town Planning Commission|year=1946–1950}} that Grant Avenue would be extended through the Town of Tuxedo.{{Cite news|date=June 20, 1956|title=A Metropolitan Problem: Fist Shaking Over Tuxedo|page=23|work=Winni;eg Free Press}} 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{{Cite news|title=Tuxedo Puts Crimp Into Highway Plan|date=June 6, 1956|work=Winnipeg Free Press|pages=1, 5}} and preferred that the major thoroughfare be placed southward near Eldride. The Town changed its position by 1960, making way for the $50-million project, including an additional 1,600 homes and the westward extension of Grant Avenue over a 10-year period.{{Cite news|last=Cohen|first=John|date=September 30, 1960|title=$50-Million Tuxedo Development Starts: 1,600 Homes Planned|page=3|work=Winnipeg Free Press}} 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.

A monument celebrating the incorporation of the Town was installed in Heubach Park in July 1970, dedicated by the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/heubachpark.shtml|title=Historic Sites of Manitoba: Frederick W. Heubach Memorial Park (Park Blvd North, Winnipeg)|website=www.mhs.mb.ca|access-date=2020-02-02}}

In 1972, Tuxedo amalgamated with Winnipeg and 12 other suburbs in the Unicity scheme.{{Cite news|title=Unanimity Highlighted Tuxedo Elections|last=Bidewell|first=Frances|date=December 31, 1971|work=Winnipeg Free Press|page=22}} Records for the Tuxedo Park Company, as well as municipal records for Tuxedo, are now held at the City of Winnipeg Archives.{{Cite web|url=https://winnipeg.ca/clerks/toc/archives.stm|title=Archives and Records Control - TOC - City Clerk's Department - City of Winnipeg|website=winnipeg.ca|language=en-ca|access-date=2020-02-11}}

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.{{Cite news|date=February 17, 1991|title=Park priorities discussed|page=5|work=Winnipeg Free Press - Free Press Weekly (SW)}}

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.

The suburb of Tuxedo contains multiple neighbourhoods. They all are part of the Assiniboine South Neighbourhood Cluster, the city ward of Charleswood-Tuxedo-Westwood, the provincial electoral district of Tuxedo and the federal electoral district of Winnipeg South Centre.

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Old Tuxedo is a suburban neighborhood bounded by the Assiniboine River to the North, Park Boulevard North to the west, Roblin Boulevard to the south, Tuxedo Avenue to the southeast and Route 90 to the east. It is one of the only remaining parts of the Olmsted Company's original plan for the Town of Tuxedo.{{Cite web |last=Winnipeg Architecture Foundation |title=Tuxedo |url=http://www.winnipegarchitecture.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Web-Exhibit-Tuxedo-1.pdf |access-date=June 4, 2023}} Home building in the area began two years after the town's incorporation in 1913. Building covenants stipulated that the homes could not occupy more than 40% of their lots and could not exceed 60 feet in height. Carey House, the first house constructed, was built by F.W Heubach's son-in-law, Architect Raymond Carey, at 121 Park Boulevard N in 1915.{{Cite web |last=Says |first=Marshall Freed |title=This Home Carries a Lot of Significance: Carey House |url=https://heritagewinnipeg.com/blogs/this-home-carries-a-lot-of-significance-carey-house/ |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=Heritage Winnipeg |language=en-CA}} According to the Winnipeg Architectural society, he built "a three-storey residence in a restrained Classically inspired manner which evokes the Georgian and French Classical in its roofline, symmetrically, and decorative elements," for himself and his wife, Clare. Carey House was still standing in 2023, though it has no legal protection as it is not municipally designated or listed on Winnipeg's Commemorative List of Historical Resources.

The original buildings of the Manitoba Agricultural College are also found in Old Tuxedo. They were later used as a school for the deaf, the Fort Osbourne Barracks and as a juvenile court.{{Cite web |title=Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Agricultural College / Manitoba School for the Deaf / Fort Osborne Barracks / Asper Jewish Community Campus (123 Doncaster Street, Winnipeg) |url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/agriculturalcollege.shtml |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=www.mhs.mb.ca}} The Asper Jewish Community Campus now hosts the Berney Theatre, the Rady Center, the Gray Academy as well as a number of other philanthropic and educational organizations on that site.{{Cite web |title=Asper Jewish Community Campus |url=https://ajcc.ca/index.php |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=ajcc.ca}} It became a provincially-designated historic site in 1995. Old Tuxedo is also home to the Manitoba Youth Centre, a juvenile detention centre located at {{Coord|49.8702|-97.2082|display=inline}}.{{Cite web |last=Province of Manitoba |title=Manitoba Youth Centre |url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/justice/corrserv/youth.html |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Province of Manitoba - Justice |language=en}} The Kenaston Willow Parkette is an attractive amenity. {{Cite web |last= |date=2017-04-22 |title=Kenaston Willow Parkette West |url=https://volunteeringwinnipeg.ca/place/kenaston-willow-parkette-west/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Volunteer Winnipeg |language=en-US}}

According to the 2016 Census, the neighbourhood is 85.4% Anglophone and majority white, with the largest non-white ethnic groups being Indigenous or Metis (10.4%) and Filipino (6.6%).{{Cite web |last=Winnipeg |first=City of |title=Winnipeg.ca (UD) : 2016 Census |url=https://legacy.winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/Assiniboine%20South%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/default.asp |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=legacy.winnipeg.ca |language=English}} The average income of the neighbourhood is $186,161, four times higher than the city average of $44,915.

This is bordered by Coryon Boulevard to the north, route 90 to the east, Grant Avenue to the south and the Assiniboine Park to the West. According to the 2016 Census, the neighbourhood is 86.4% Anglophone with 10 exclusively Francophone residents.{{Cite web |last=Winnipeg |first=City of |title=Winnipeg.ca (UD) : 2016 Census |url=https://legacy.winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/Assiniboine%20South%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/default.asp |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=legacy.winnipeg.ca |language=English}} The neighbourhood is majority white, with the largest non-white ethnic groups being Indigenous or Metis (3.6%%). The average income of the neighbourhood is $116,538, three times higher than the city average of $44,915.

South Tuxedo's borders are Grant Avenue to the north, Route 90 to the east, the Canadian National Rail lines to the south and Shaftesbury avenue to the west. According to the 2016 Census, the neighbourhood is 89.7% Anglophone. The neighbourhood is majority white, with the largest non-white ethnic groups being South Asian (3.6%) followed by Chinese (2.5%) and Indigenous or Metis (2.5%) The average income of the neighbourhood is $107,549, two and a half times higher than the city average of $44,915.

{{Historical populations

|1921|1062

|1931|1173

|1941|735

|1951|1627

|1961|1627

| 2011|

|2016 |7145

|footnote=[http://www66.statcan.gc.ca/eng/acyb_c1932-eng.aspx?opt=/eng/1932/193201450107_p.%20107.pdf Canada Year Book 1932 (page 107)][http://www66.statcan.gc.ca/eng/acyb_c1955-eng.aspx?opt=/eng/1955/195501700144_p.%20144.pdf Canada Year Book 1955 (page 144)][http://www66.statcan.gc.ca/eng/acyb_c1967-eng.aspx?opt=/eng/1967/196702240192_p.%20192.pdf Canada Year Book 1967 (page 192)]}}Tuxedo also has a large Jewish population. 33% of Winnipeg's jewish population Live in Tuxedo. With tuxedo being home to the Asper Jewish community campus. 31.4% is Jewish.{{Cite web |title= |url=https://legacy.winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/Assiniboine%20South%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Assiniboine%20South%20Neighbourhoods/Tuxedo/Tuxedo.pdf}}

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.

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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.

• Assiniboine Park and Assiniboine Park Zoo
• Heubach Park
• Outlet Collection Winnipeg
• Rady Jewish Community Centre{{Cite web|title=Neighbourhoods {{!}} Tourism Winnipeg|url=https://www.tourismwinnipeg.com/plan-your-trip/neighbourhoods/display,neighbourhood/20/tuxedo|access-date=2021-06-28|website=www.tourismwinnipeg.com}}
• Rumors Comedy Club
• Tuxedo Park Shopping Centre
• Winnipeg Jewish Theatre
• Winnipeg Studio Theatre

International real estate developer, financier and former Lord Mayor of London, England, Sir Denys Lowson (via South Winnipeg Development Co. Ltd.),{{Cite news|date=October 31, 1963|title=Sir Denys Lowson, president of South Winnipeg Development Co. Ltd.|page=30|work=Winnipeg Free Press}} announced in March 1963{{Cite news|date=October 29, 1963|title=Ex-Lord Mayor heads development company|page=15|work=Winnipeg Tribune}} that Bird Construction was chosen as the company to build the Tuxedo Park Shopping Centre (2025 Corydon Avenue) designed by Smith Carter architects{{Cite news|last=Fairbairn|first=Clarence|date=March 2, 1963|title='Instant' reservations for air line travelers|page=29|work=Winnipeg Tribune}} and opened on 30 October 1963. The new Centre included a 10-pin bowling alley and billiards.{{Cite news|last=Telpner|first=Gene|date=August 9, 1963|title=It Strikes Me|page=16|work=Winni;peg Free Press}} Other initial retailers were MacIver Nanton Toys, Height Hairstylists, and Tuxedo Book & Record Shop. A Bank of Montreal branch, Safeway supermarket, and Shell gas station continue to operate today. The Shopping Centre was phase 1 of 2 phases on 15 acres of land, with the second phase seeing the construction of 3 apartment towers.

Heubach Park (originally Olmsted Park) is a purely residential subdivision within Tuxedo that was created in the late 1920s. Heubach Park itself comprises 26 acres of landscaped land (trees, shrubs). At one time there was a flower bed at the southern edge of the Park at Grant Avenue, but it was later removed. As much as was possible, utility wires were buried, so as not to be visually cluttering.

Privately-owned and run and situated south of Assiniboine Park, the Tuxedo Golf Course was constructed between 1932 and 1933{{Cite news|date=July 8, 1932|title=Contract for $11,500 New Wing to Tuxedo School is Awarded|page=14|work=Winnipeg Free Press}} and officially opened in May 1934.{{Cite news|date=May 17, 1934|title=Tuxedo Golf Course Was Opened This Afternoon With Number of Foursomes|page=11|work=Winnipeg Tribune}} It features both regular 18-hole and 18-hole miniature golf runs.{{Cite web|title=Lakeland Group of Companies - Tuxedo Golf Course|url=https://www.lakelandgolfmanagement.com/our-golf-courses/tuxedo|access-date=2020-05-26|website=www.lakelandgolfmanagement.com}}{{Commons category|Tuxedo, Winnipeg|position=right}}

• [http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/municipalities/tuxedo.shtml Manitoba Communities: Tuxedo]
• [http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/features/walkingtours/tuxedo/index.shtml History and Walking Tour of Tuxedo]

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