New map details southern Manitoba
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This article was published 16/06/2010 (5591 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Travellers making their way across the southern half of the Keystone province will no longer have to struggle with the often-infuriating awkwardness of a fully-unfolded highway map taking up space in their vehicle.
In designing Manitoba’s first highway map since 2000, the NDP government opted to place a detailed map of the southern half of the province on the back side of the traditional full map.
"Most of the tourism that we get that is traffic-based … 90 per cent plus would be visiting the area that we’ve got on (that) new map," says Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Steve Ashton.
"Now, you have a very significant block of southern Manitoba, from the Saskatchewan border to the Ontario border … on that back panel of the map alone. I think that will make a real difference … I think it will make it far less confusing for people and far less likely for people to take wrong directions."
In addition, the full-sized map includes marking of the old Dawson Trail in eastern Manitoba, named after Simon Dawson, a surveyor who helped establish a water and land route from the Thunder Bay area to Winnipeg, well before rail lines and roads.
The new map also includes Historic #1 Highway (PTH 44), which was part of the first national highway system before the current Trans-Canada Highway. There is also more information on the map about Manitoba’s provincial parks.
The map’s cover photo — a sprawling shot of Highway 10 through the Little Saskatchewan Valley north of Minnedosa — was handpicked by Ashton because of its reflection of Manitoba’s "geographic diversity."
The map continues to highlight Travel Manitoba information centres and presents welcome greetings in more than 25 languages, reflecting the cultural diversity of Manitoba, Ashton added.
"I’m pretty proud of the highways map. I think it’s a good reflection of who we are and what we are. It’s a good first impression to potential visitors."
The cost for the province to print approximately 203,500 of the maps was $47,751.
They are now being shipped, free of charge, to all tourism and service station locations across the province.