It serves as a connector to Highway 8 and Selkirk, Manitoba, from downtown Winnipeg via Notre Dame Ave.

The street was formerly the two-mile limit of the Selkirk Settlers' lots, which started at the Red River and extended from it for four miles.

His father, George Sr., was the first generation of the Irish-Canadian family to perform this work in Western Canada.

The first of these maps was done in January 1872 and comprised the homestead of James Ross, whose property extended from the Red River west to Princess Street.

The job gave him such publicity that, in 1883, Windsor, Ontario's council asked him to prepare a map of that city.