Cranberry Portage station
Railway station in Manitoba, Canada
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Cranberry Portage station is a former railway station in Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, Canada, whose building is now home to the Cranberry Portage Heritage Museum.[1][2][3]
Rural Municipality of Kelsey
Manitoba, Canada
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| Location | Railway Avenue, Cranberry Portage, Rural Municipality of Kelsey Manitoba, Canada | |||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 54.5858°N 101.3824°W | |||||||||||||||||
| Line | "The Pas-Pukatawagan" | |||||||||||||||||
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| Status | converted into museum | |||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1929 | |||||||||||||||||
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Located west of Grass River Provincial Park in north-central Manitoba, the building was constructed in 1929 as a two-storey, third-class station by the Canadian National Railway.[4] The station was later served by Via Rail's "The Pas-Pukatawagan" line for the Keewatin Railway.[5]
History
The Cranberry Portage station building was constructed in 1929 as a two-storey, third-class station by the Canadian National Railway (CNR). This section of the CNR track, known as the Hudson Bay Railway, proved to be essential to the development of northern Manitoba.[4]
The station would later go on to be served by Via Rail, on its "The Pas-Pukatawagan" line for the Keewatin Railway, twice per week in each direction.[5][dead link]
In 1992 the railway station was designated a historic site.[4][6]
The building was unused until 2012, when a local initiative restored the building and converted it into the Cranberry Portage Heritage Museum, which opened officially on May 31, 2015.[2]
