These points come from the City of Winnipeg and Environment and Climate Change Canada. The City’s fence brochure is dated March 2023, so confirm current rules with the City before you order.
The 4 ft and 6.5 ft table
Winnipeg’s Zoning By-law 200/2006 sets fence limits in feet in Table 5-17: 4 ft in a residential front yard and 6.5 ft in a side or rear yard. Entrance gates may be up to 13 ft high. Section 194 bans electric fences and barbed wire fences except as the table provides. Section 195 applies the same limits to hedges, trees, shrubs, arbours and trellises. The by-law applies outside the boundary of the Downtown Winnipeg Zoning By-law 100/2004.
Source: City of Winnipeg, Zoning By-law 200/2006, office consolidation
What the City brochure adds
The City’s residential fences brochure (March 2023) gives the metric equivalents: 1.2 m (4 ft 0 in) in front yards and 2.0 m (6 ft 6 in) in rear and side yards. It says no building permit is needed for a standard residential fence, and that the only way to alter these limits is a variance application. On a corner lot, the narrowest width of the property facing a street counts as the front yard, whichever way the house faces.
Source: City of Winnipeg, Residential Fences brochure (March 2023)
Winnipeg against Toronto Pearson
At Winnipeg Richardson Int’l A (ECCC climate ID 5023222), the 1991-2020 normals show a January mean daily temperature of -16.3 °C, against -5.0 °C at Toronto Pearson. Winnipeg has 114.7 days a year when the daily maximum stays at or below 0 °C, against 49.5 at Pearson. It has 51.9 days with a daily minimum below -20 °C, against 2.7, and 11.8 days below -30 °C, against 0.04.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020, Winnipeg Richardson Int’l A
Frost depth: the City’s deck figure
The City’s deck brochure says that when the underside of the deck joists is more than 1300 mm (4 ft 3 in) above the ground, the foundation must be at least the depth of frost penetration, which it gives as 1.8 m (6 ft). That is a deck requirement under the Winnipeg Building By-law (4555/87), not a fence-post rule. Ask your installer what footing depth suits your fence.
Source: City of Winnipeg, Decks brochure (October 2025)
New and emerging communities
The City of Winnipeg’s 2017 Urban Planning report on potential population growth lists newer and emerging communities: Bridgwater Lakes, Bridgwater Trails and South Pointe in Waverley West, Sage Creek and Royalwood in St. Boniface, and Canterbury Park in Transcona. It also lists Bridgwater Centre, South Pointe West and Waverley West B. These groupings date from 2017, so today’s build-out may differ.
Source: City of Winnipeg, Potential population growth in new and emerging communities (2017)
Getting panels from Mississauga
Our showroom is at 2222 South Sheridan Way, Unit 116, in Mississauga, Ontario, 2,058.6 km from central Winnipeg by road on a routing model (OSRM, no stops). PrimeAlux ships to Winnipeg from there, and there is no local branch or install crew. The showroom is in Ontario, so a visit means travelling there; free samples are available. Delivery options, dates and fees are confirmed by our sales team.
Source: OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM)
