East Kildonan is a primarily residential community in northeast Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

[1] It is mainly a working- and middle-class community, though there are poorer pockets south of Munroe Avenue and more affluent areas along the Red River and west of Henderson Highway, East Kildonan's major thoroughfare.

There is a small industrial area located between Watt Street and the CPR tracks.

From 1876 to 1914 the Rural Municipality of Kildonan included a large area on both sides of the Red River, just north of the original City of Winnipeg.

In 1906 the more heavily developed southern area of the municipality, known as Elmwood, joined with the City of Winnipeg.

East Kildonan developed rapidly after World War II, the population grew from 8,439 in 1941 to 30,150 in 1971.

[10] East Kildonan saw a housing boom in the mid 1950s, leading to the development of roads, sewers, and schools.