Landscaping in Kirkfield Park, Winnipeg

Woodhaven is the oldest of the three by a wide margin. It was first subdivided in 1900, then registered as a proper plan in September 1913 by developers Herman Harrison and Christopher O’Kelly, who marketed it as a “suburban pleasure resort” built around a twenty-acre lake. Sturgeon Creek blocked easy access until a bridge went in during March 1920, after which eleven bungalows were finished that fall, priced $5,000 to $8,000 with $45 down. Heritage Park tells a different story: the gates on Ness Avenue at the Sturgeon Creek bridge, unveiled in 1963, commemorate the site’s earlier life as a race track before it was built out as a postwar neighbourhood. Crestview filled in slower still, mostly through the 1940s to the 1970s, and became anchored in 1967 when Grace Hospital relocated there from Arlington Street into a new 250-bed building — it is still the neighbourhood’s major landmark today.

The result is three neighbourhoods that share a name, a school catchment and the Sturgeon Creek Greenway Trail, but were not built in the same decade or on the same servicing standard. Woodhaven has Winnipeg’s oldest surviving suburban lake-resort lots outside downtown; Heritage Park is a single-era 1960s build-out on former racetrack land; Crestview is the slow, thirty-year fill between them, anchored by the hospital. CFB Winnipeg and the airport sit immediately north across Saskatchewan Avenue. That age spread, not the creek, is what actually drives the work here.

Why Kirkfield Park is really three different housing eras

Same area name, three different build-out timelines:

Woodhaven is over a century old. Platted in 1900 and built from 1919 onward around a former resort lake, this is the oldest housing stock in the cluster. Expect original clay tile, mature root systems well into their second half-century, and lots that were never squared to a modern grading standard.

Heritage Park was built in one push, on a racetrack. The neighbourhood sits on the former site of a race track that operated until the early 1960s. Because it was greenfield-built in a single era rather than filled in gradually, the grading, driveway concrete and original trees across Heritage Park tend to be failing at roughly the same time, block by block.

Crestview filled in the slowest, over thirty years. Construction ran from the 1940s through the 1970s, giving Crestview the widest internal age range of the three. Grace Hospital’s move here in 1967 anchored the neighbourhood’s centre; lots built earlier and later than that date behave differently underfoot.

All three share one trail, not one soil profile. The Sturgeon Creek Greenway Trail runs through all three neighbourhoods and CFB Winnipeg sits just north across Saskatchewan Avenue, which is why people lump them together. But a 1919 Woodhaven lot, a 1962 Heritage Park lot and a 1971 Crestview lot need three different landscaping plans, not one.

Our landscaping services in Kirkfield Park

On a Woodhaven lake lot, a Heritage Park bungalow or a Crestview split-level, we handle:

• Grading and drainage — Correcting decades of settling on lots that predate modern grading standards. See grading and drainage.
• Driveway replacement — Original concrete at or past end of life across all three neighbourhoods. See paving stone driveways.
• Paving stone patios and walkways — paving stone patios and walkways and paths built on a proper compacted base, not poured over old settling.
• Tree management and replacement — Assessing Woodhaven’s century-old canopy and replanting Heritage Park and Crestview trees reaching the end of their run. See tree and shrub planting.
• Full yard renovations — full yard renovations and backyard landscaping work for yards that have not been touched since the original build.
• Low-maintenance front yards — rock and mulch beds, artificial turf and hardscape-led front yard landscaping for lower upkeep near the hospital and CFB Winnipeg commuter routes.

Areas we serve around Kirkfield Park

We serve the Kirkfield Park area of west Winnipeg — Crestview, Woodhaven and Heritage Park — from Buchanan Road east to Sturgeon Creek and Sturgeon Road, and from Portage Avenue north to Saskatchewan Avenue. Neighbouring areas include Sturgeon Creek and Charleswood. See all our Winnipeg and Manitoba service areas.

Why Kirkfield Park homeowners choose BerryHill

How it works

1. Free on-site consultation
   We read the grade, check the age and condition of the original concrete and trees, and talk budget honestly.
2. Design and fixed quote
   One line-itemed price covering excavation, base, materials and labour. 3D renderings on larger projects.
3. Build and final walkthrough
   Grading and base prep first, then the hardscape and planting. We do not leave until you sign off.

Kirkfield Park landscaping questions