Manitoba Highway 75
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| Lord Selkirk Highway | ||||
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| Maintained by Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation | ||||
| Length: | 101 km (63 mi) | |||
| Existed: | 1949 – present | |||
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| South end: |
  I-29 / US 81 at Canada–U.S. border |
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 PTH 14 PTH 23 at Morris
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| North end: |
  PTH 100 / Route 42 in Winnipeg
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| Major cities: | Winnipeg | |||
| Towns: | Emerson, Morris | |||
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Provincial Trunk Highway 75 (PTH 75, also officially known as the Lord Selkirk Highway) is the main highway from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to the Canada–U.S. border, where it connects with Interstate 29.
The highway, which is part of Canada's National Highway System, begins at the Canada-United States border at Emerson and runs approximately 101 kilometers (63 miles) north, along on the west side of the Red River, to Winnipeg. There it connects with Pembina Highway, which forms the southern portion of Winnipeg Route 42.
The entire route is a 4-lane divided highway, but access is not fully controlled. Proposals do exist to upgrade the highway to an expressway or freeway standard with bypasses at Morris and St. Norbert. PTH 75 consisted of two lanes south of Morris until approximately 1992 when the current four-lane divided highway between Morris and United States border was built.
The PTH 75 route originated as a trail used by early settlers to travel between the Selkirk Settlement and Fort Pembina. The provincial government officially designated the road as the Lord Selkirk Highway in 1962 to commemorate this.
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