In July 2004, the Dairy Museum of Manitoba, the only museum of its kind in Manitoba, was officially opened at St. Claude in the Rural Municipality of Grey. The 2,400-square-foot museum presents through artifacts and photographs a history of the dairy industry in Manitoba, including the involvement of the Trappists. There is information on breeds of dairy cattle, and displays of dairy equipment used in St. Claude and elsewhere. There is even a display of 72 types of barbed wire dating back to the 1870s. Also at the site is the former Bell School building and St. Claude’s Canadian Pacific Railway type 15 station, built in 1930.
Entrance to the Dairy Museum of Manitoba at St. Claude (June 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Former Canadian Pacific Railway station from St. Claude at the Manitoba Dairy Museum(June 1999)
Source: George Penner
Former Canadian Pacific Railway station from St. Claude at the Manitoba Dairy Museum (June 2019)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Interior of the former Canadian Pacific Railway station from St. Claude at the Manitoba Dairy Museum (August 2022)
Source: Rose Kuzina
Interior of a chapel containing religious artifacts from St. Claude's two previous churches (August 2022)
Source: Rose Kuzina
Former Bell School at the Manitoba Dairy Museum (June 2019)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Interior of the former Bell School at the Manitoba Dairy Museum (August 2022)
Source: Rose Kuzina
Interior of the former Bell School at the Manitoba Dairy Museum (August 2022)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.66177, W98.34013
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: St. Claude Gaol Museum (St. Claude, RM of Grey)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Our Lady of the Prairies Trappist Monastery (RM of Victoria)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Railway Stations
Railway Stations of Manitoba: A Building Inventory by Patricia Trainor, Farhad Rahbary, and David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1984, 233 pages. [Manitoba Legislative Library]
We thank George Penner and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Bill Fraser.
Page revised: 15 September 2022
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