River Heights, Winnipeg schools: According to the Winnipeg Census Profiles, River Heights is divided into two neighbourhood clusters;" River Heights West" and "River Heights East, "for a total of 17 neighbourhoods which include; River Heights, Winnipeg River Heights is a community area in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is located south of the Assiniboine River, west of Fort Rouge at Cambridge Street, east of Edgeland St. adjacent to Tuxedo, and north of the Canadian National Railways mainline. To the north of Academy Road is Wellington Crescent. The land which is now River Heights was once part of the Parish of St. Boniface. It was annexed
Sport in Winnipeg the notable sports figures from Winnipeg include six time Olympic speedskating medallist and most decorated Canadian Olympian Cindy Klassen, Olympic Taekwondo athlete and bronze-medallist Dominique Bosshart, Summer and Winter Olympic medal winner Clara Hughes and Canadian Olympic Women's Hockey Gold Medallist Jennifer Botterill. Daniel Yanofsky, the first chess Grandmaster developed in the British Commonwealth, lived in Winnipeg from infancy, and he organized and played in Canada's first Supergrandmaster chess tournament in Winnipeg 1967. The Winnipeg area is the only place in Canada where bandy is played. Winnipeg has a number of skateboard parks- some leftovers from the 1970s and many