Winnipeg Route 165
Route 165, named Abinojii Mikanah, formally known as Bishop Grandin Boulevard, is a highway in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Currently the route is an at-grade expressway running from an interchange with Kenaston Boulevard (Route 90) to Lagimodiere Boulevard. The route runs through the districts of Fort Garry, St. Vital, and St. Boniface.
The speed limit along the route is.
History
Abinojii Mikanah first opened to traffic from Lagimodiere Boulevard to Pembina Highway (Route 42) in 1978, with a westerly extension to Route 80 (Waverley Street) opening in 1990, as well as a second expansion in 1998 expanding from waverley to Route 90.In the wake of the 2021 discovery of unmarked burial sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in BC, there were calls to change the name of the roadway, originally called Bishop Grandin Boulevard after Vital-Justin Grandin, who was thought to be one of the architects of the residential school system. On March 23, 2023, Winnipeg city council voted unanimously to change the name of the street to Abinojii Mikanah, "to represent residential school survivors and the journey to find the children who never returned home." On April 26, 2024, it was announced that bylaws pertaining to the rename had received second and third readings at city council.