MHS Centennial Business: Canadian Pacific Railway Company / CPKC

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To discuss the history of the CPR and its involvement in our great province, you have to go back to the very decade of Manitoba’s entry into confederation. In 1874, the community of Winnipeg discovered that plans were being drawn for the construction of a transcontinental rail line to run through Selkirk to the north. Immediately, a citizens’ committee was established and a petition was delivered to Ottawa. In true Canadian fashion, debate over the issue lasted for seven years when in 1881, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company was formed and agreed to construct the line through our present provincial capital. This important decision would help pave the way for Winnipeg to become the “hub of commercial activity in the northwest.” For the next 16 months following, immigrants migrated to the city in search of employment and hope causing the population to explode from a few hundred to 14,000. Due to this massive influx, the CPR announced 2,000 new jobs at their shops.

This period was an intensification of the expansion of the mid-1870s on a scale which was unprecedented in Canadian history. For a short time, the sky was the limit. Winnipeg was again “the new Chicago” and speculation drove the prices of lots on Portage Avenue or Main Street above the going rate for similar frontage on Michigan Avenue or State Street in the “Windy City.” Emerson and West Lynne, its long-since devoured twin across the Red, were touted in local and eastern papers as improved versions of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Crystal City, Rapid City, Nelsonville – a long list of metropolises-to-be clamoured for the attention of settlers and received that of speculators. Winnipeg was prompted by the speculation fever to move heaven and earth in order to secure the crossing of the Red River by the new Canadian Pacific Railway.

During this time, construction of the railway was supervised from offices in Winnipeg. Facilities were located near the Point Douglas area of the city. During the early part of the 20th century, this marshalling yard was one of the largest in the world. It was the centre point of the Dominion, moving material and goods in both directions between eastern and western Canada.

Over the years, this railway company has changed and evolved in many aspects including service lines, modes of transportation and even things as simple as its name. CP Rail System, or CPRS, was changed again to Canadian Pacific Railway Company in 1996. The nature of Manitoba-based railway services have also evolved throughout the 20th century and beyond, including operations across the nation.

One such evolution was in 1994 when emphasis was focussed on consolidating customer service for all its Canadian operations into a new centre in Winnipeg. At that time, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company was expecting to employ more than 200 people – many of whom would have been transferred from urban centres all across the country. Winnipeg was also the chosen site for the CPR’s headquarters for the “grain team,” its company’s marketing unit for transporting western Canada’s most fundamental commodity.

The Canadian Pacific Railway’s activities and involvement in Manitoba still continue today. its main heavy repair facility is located in Weston yards. Additionally, services such as a diesel shop which is responsible for a large part of CPR’s fleet and the Transcona which welds standard rails into quarter-mile long continuous rails for installation in main line track across the country have been built and maintained.

The railway employs 1000s of Manitobans and spends approximately 2 billion dollars in our province on payroll, provincial taxes, purchases and capital spending. This is in addition to indirect spending generating by business done with Manitoba-based suppliers. It maintains and operates approximately a 2000 km network of line to serve its Manitoba customers and connects them to terminals and major coastal ports throughout the North American continent.

An article in CP Rail News dated 28 August 1974 had this to say about the Canadian Pacific Railway’s involvement in the building of our province: “The diversification of Canadian Pacific operations is well known – but would you believe 50 years in the entertainment business? Winnipeg Beach was where it all started at the turn of the century when CP Rail opened an amusement park, complete with roller coaster, Ferris wheel, merry-go-round and dance hall, among other things – and a rail line to get people there. The company also built a hotel on the site – the Empress – where, in its heyday, picnickers could buy a gallon of beer for 25 cents and the Sunday concert was the social event of the week. There was a 400-foot pier and an 800-foot boardwalk where families strolled up and down in the sun, and friends and lovers did likewise, more or less on moonlight excursions.”

An MHS Centennial Business Award was presented to Janet Weiss, General Manager (Grain) of Canadian Pacific Railway Company, by MHS President Steven Place, on 3 April 2004.

In April 2023, the company merged with US-based Kansas City Southern to form CPKC.

Presidents

Period

President

1881-1888

George Stephen (1829-1921)

1888-1899

William Cornelius Van Horne (1843-1915)

1899-1918

Thomas George Shaughnessy (1853-1923)

1918-1942

Edward Wentworth Beatty (1877-1943)

1942-1947

D’alton Corry Coleman (1879-1956)

1947-1948

William M. Neal (1886-?)

1948-1955

William Allan Mather (1885-1961)

1955-1964

Norris Roy “Buck” Crump (1904-1989)

1964-1966

Robert Alton Emerson (1911-1966)

1966

Norris Roy “Buck” Crump (1904-1989)

1966-1972

Ian David Sinclair (1913-2006)

1972-1981

Frederick Stewart Burbidge (1918-2013)

1981-1990

William Stinson

1990-2006

Robert J. Ritchie

2006-?

Fred Green

Vice-Presidents (Western Lines / Prairie Region)

Period

Vice-President

1918-1942

D’alton Corry Coleman (1879-1956)

1942-1958

?

1958-1962

G. E. Mayne

1962-1964

S. M. Gossage

1964-1967

D. M. Dunlop

1967-1969

Keith Campbell

1969-1974

R. S. Allison

General Managers (Western Lines / Prairie Region)

Period

General Manager

1918-1927

Charles Murphy (1865-1941)

Chief Dispatchers (Winnipeg)

Period

Chief Dispatcher (Winnipeg)

?-1908

W. J. Wren

1908-1914

Ernest George Trump (1878-1943)

1915-1916

W. E. Cline

1916-1917

J. L. Able

1917-1918

H. L. Horn

1918-1919

William Munroe

1919-1924

Maurice Helston (1869-1931)

1924-1937

Eric Gordon Skelding (1886-1973)

Land Commissioners (Winnipeg)

Period

Land Commissioner

1874-1888

John Henry McTavish (1837-1888)

1888-1890

Lauchlan Alexander Hamilton (1852-1941)

1890-1912

Frederick Thomas Griffin (1853-1935)

1912-?

?

Subdivisions (Manitoba)

CPR Subdivision

Location

Mile

Station
Built

Junction(s)

Abandonment

1972 Elevators (number)

Alida

Lauder

0.0

?

Boissevain

Abandoned (13 March 1978)
R-25959

Pool (2)

Bernice

9.0

?

 

 

Bede

13.1

?

 

 

Broomhill

18.6

1910

 

Pool

Tilston

28.8

1910

Alida (Saskatchewan)

Pool A, Pool B

Arborg

Winnipeg

0.0

?

 

Abandoned (27 May 2014)

Federal, Soo

Bears

3.7

?

 

 

Orpa

?

?

 

 

Stony Mountain

11.6

1913

 

 

Stonewall

18.2

1910

 

Pool

Williams

19.4

?

 

Abandoned (3 June 2008)

 

Balmoral

27.8

1924

 

Paterson

Gunton

33.0

?

 

UGG

Teulon

37.7

1927

 

Paterson, Pool A, Pool B

Komarno

45.9

?

 

 

Malonton

51.2

?

 

 

Fraserwood

55.8

1926

 

 

Meleb

61.9

?

 

 

Rembrandt

66.8

?

 

 

Silver

70.3

?

 

 

Arborg

74.3

1906

 

Paterson, Pool A, Pool B, Pool C, Pool D

Arcola

Schwitzer

0.0

?

Estevan

 

 

Denbow

4.8

?

 

 

 

Deleau

9.2

1904

 

 

 

Findlay

17.3

1900

 

 

 

Pipestone

26.1

1898

 

 

Pool, UGG

Reston

32.5

1898

Reston

 

Pool, UGG

Linklater

?

?

 

 

Pool

Sinclair

41.7

1909

Arcola (Saskatchewan)

 

Pool

Boissevain

Boissevain

0.0

?

Napinka

Abandoned (24 September 1975)
R-21118

Parrish & Heimbecker, Paterson, Pool (2), UGG

Schaffner

4.3

?

 

 

Orthez

7.4

?

 

McCabe

Croll

12.7

?

 

Pool

Regent

18.9

1914

 

Lake of the Woods, Pool, Western Canada Flour Mills

Hathaway

24.3

?

 

Pool

Dand

27.0

1914

 

Pool

Lauder

35.3

?

Alida

Pool (2)

Bredenbury

Minnedosa

0.0

?

Minnedosa

 

Pool (3), UGG

Largs

?

?

 

 

 

Basswood

10.0

1900

 

 

Pool A, Pool B, Pool C

Newdale

18.3

1929

 

 

Pool (3), UGG (2)

Glossop

?

?

 

 

Pool, Pioneer

Strathclair

27.6

1900

 

 

Pioneer, Pool, UGG

Ipswich

?

?

 

 

Pool (2)

Shoal Lake

36.4

1926

 

 

UGG (2)

Bryd

?

?

 

 

Paterson

Kelloe

44.6

1912

 

 

Pool (2)

Solsgirth

51.2

1886

 

 

National, Pool

Birtle

59.2

1900

 

 

Pool

Foxwarren

66.8

1921

 

 

Pool (2), UGG

Chillon

?

?

 

 

Pool, UGG

Binscarth

76.5

1900

Russell

 

Pool, UGG

Millwood

84.1

1892

 

 

Pool

Harrowby

89.2

1920

 

 

 

Broadview

Brandon

0.0

?

Carberry, Lenore, Rapidy City

 

Federal (2), National, Pool, UGG

Kemnay

8.2

1928

Estevan

 

Pool

Alexander

15.7

1928

 

 

Paterson, Pool

Ashbury

20.4

?

 

 

 

Griswold

24.8

1926

 

 

UGG #1, UGG #2

Oak Lake

32.0

1907

 

 

Pool

Routledge

40.0

1906

 

 

 

Virden

47.2

1900

Rocanville

 

Pool, UGG

Homestead

?

?

 

 

 

Hargrave

55.4

1919

 

 

Pool, UGG

Reaper

?

?

 

 

 

Elkhorn

64.1

1904

 

 

Pool (2)

Kirkella

70.3

1905

Broadview (Saskatchewan), McAuley

 

Pool

Carberry

Winnipeg

0.0

?

Carberry, La Riviere

 

Federal, Soo

Bergen

7.5

1900

 

 

Federal

Rosser

15.2

1882

 

 

Pool

Meadows

22.4

1882

 

 

Paterson (2)

Marquette

28.9

1882

 

 

Paterson (2)

Reaburn

35.3

1882

 

 

 

Poplar Point

40.5

1882

 

 

Pool

High Bluff

48.8

1882

 

 

Pool

Portage la Prairie

55.6

1893

Minnedosa

 

Pool A, Pool B, Pool C, UGG 1

Burnside

63.6

?

 

 

Pool

Bagot

71.1

1882

 

 

 

MacGregor

77.8

1902

Varcoe

 

Pool

Austin

84.8

1911

 

 

Pool

Sidney

92.9

1882

 

 

Pool

Melbourne

98.3

1900

 

 

 

Carberry

105.8

1900

 

 

UGG

Hughes

114.5

1882

 

 

 

Douglas

121.8

1890

 

 

Pool

Chater

127.6

1882

 

 

 

Brandon

133.1

1904

Broadview, Lenore, Rapid City

 

Federal (2), National, Pool, UGG

Carman

Elm Creek

0.0

?

Glenboro

Abandoned (30 August 1992), 1992-R-270

Cargill, Paterson, Pool

Barnsley

6.0

1905

 

Pool, UGG

Carman

12.2

1900

 

Pool

Graham

20.2

?

 

Abandoned (17 November 1975), R-21238

Pool

Roland

24.4

1907

 

 

Kronsgart

31.7

?

 

Pool

Plum Coulee

39.9

?

La Riviere

Abandoned (4 November 1977), R-25534

Federal, Pool, UGG

Horndean

43.9

?

La Riviere

 

 

Rosenfeld

49.2

?

Gretna

 

Federal, Pool A, Pool B

Emerson

St. Boniface

0.0

1909

Keewatin

 

Central (2), Federal, Maple, National (2), Pool

Grande Pointe

9.3

?

 

 

 

Willard

15.0

?

 

 

 

Niverville

21.0

1922

 

 

Pool

Otterburne

28.5

1879

 

 

UGG

Carey

32.2

1917

 

 

Pioneer, Pool (2)

Dufrost

37.0

1921

 

 

Paterson, Pool (2)

Arnaud

45.9

1913

 

 

UGG

Dominion City

53.9

1927

 

 

Pool, UGG

Riordan

58.8

?

 

 

 

Fredensthal West

60.6

?

 

 

Pool

Emerson

63.8

1914

 

 

Paterson

Estevan

Kemnay

0.0

?

Broadview

 

 

Beresford

8.2

1910

 

 

Pool

Souris

15.9

1912

 

 

Pool (2), UGG

Schwitzer

21.6

?

Arcola

 

 

Page

?

?

 

 

 

Menteith

25.7

?

 

 

Pool

Hartney

32.3

1900

 

 

Pool, UGG

Emblem

36.0

?

 

 

?

Lauder

41.7

1926

Alida, Boissevain

 

Pool (2)

Napinka

50.4

1922

Napinka

 

Ogilvie, Pool (2)

Melita

58.7

1916

 

 

Pool (2), UGG

Elva

63.9

?

 

 

Lake of the Woods, UGG

Pierson

72.9

1898

Gainsborough (Saskatchewan)

 

Paterson, Pool (2)

Fallison

Snowflake

0.0

 

Snowflake

Abandoned (1962)

Pool (2), Federal

Hebb

?

 

 

 

Fallison

?

 

 

Federal, Pool

Glenboro

Winnipeg

0.0

?

Carberry, La Riviere

 

Federal, Soo

Murray Park

9.0

?

 

 

 

Headingley

15.3

1904

 

 

Pool (2)

Springstein

22.8

?

 

 

 

Starbuck

28.8

1906

 

 

Pool (2)

Fannystelle

36.5

1906

 

 

Paterson, Pool, Stevens, UGG

Culross

42.9

?

 

 

Paterson (2), UGG

Elm Creek

47.4

?

Carman

 

Cargill, Paterson, Pool

Haywood

56.5

?

 

 

Paterson

St. Claude

63.1

1930

 

 

UGG 1, UGG 2

Jobin

?

?

 

Abandoned (18 September 2014)

 

Rathwell

72.2

1900

 

Pool, UGG 1, UGG 2

Treherne

79.1

1906

 

Paterson, Pool, UGG

Holland

87.6

1907

 

Federal, Paterson, Pool (2)

Landseer

92.1

?

 

Pool (2)

Cypress River

97.6

1910

 

Paterson, Pool

Glenboro

106.6

1909

 

Pool (2)

Stockton

114.4

?

 

Federal

Treesbank

122.2

?

 

Pool

Banting

?

?

 

 

Methven

128.0

?

 

Pool

Nesbitt

133.9

1902

 

Pool, UGG

Carroll

142.2

1901

 

 

Newstead

147.3

?

 

 

UGG

Souris

152.7

?

Estevan

 

Pool (2), UGG

Gretna

Rosenfeld

0.0

?

La Riviere

 

Federal, Pool (2)

Altona

6.8

1890

 

 

Federal, Pool

Gretna

13.8

1890

 

Abandoned (July 1996)

Federal, Pool, Ritz A, Ritz B

Kaleida

Rudyard

0.0

?

La Riviere

Abandoned (July 1963)

 

Kaleida

6.2

?

 

Pool

Keewatin

Winnipeg

0.0

?

Carberry, La Riviere

 

Federal, Soo

St. Boniface

1.2

?

Emerson

 

Central (2), Federal, Maple, National (2), Pool

North Transcona

6.5

1912

 

 

Parrish & Heimbecker

Oakbank

13.3

1906

 

 

Pool

Hazelridge

20.7

1917

 

 

Pool, Scottish Co-operative

Cloverleaf

26.0

?

 

 

Scottish Co-operative

Lydiatt

33.5

1924

 

 

 

Molson

37.8

1909

Lac du Bonnet

 

 

Julius

39.6

?

 

 

 

Shelley

50.6

?

 

 

 

Whitemouth

53.6

1923

 

 

UGG

Darwin

?

?

 

 

 

Culver

65.6

?

 

 

 

Rennie

73.5

1936

 

 

 

Telford

80.1

?

 

 

 

Cross Lake

89.8

?

Kenora (Ontario)

 

 

Lac du Bonnet

Winnipeg

0.0

?

Carberry, La Riviere

Abandoned (circa 1990)

Federal, Soo

Birds Hill

7.9

1911

 

 

Gonor

14.8

?

 

 

East Selkirk

21.5

1900

 

Federal

Garson

27.0

?

 

 

Tyndall

29.1

1920s

 

Pool

Saldo

?

?

 

 

Beausejour

35.6

1907

 

Pool A, Pool B, UGG 1, UGG 2

St. Ouens

38.6

?

 

Scottish Co-operative

Molson

44.8

?

Keewatin

Abandoned (10 May 1990), 1990-R-125

 

Buchan

49.7

?

 

 

Aneda

52.1

?

 

 

Milner Ridge

55.7

?

 

 

Sproule

59.8

?

 

 

Lac du Bonnet

65.8

1926

 

UGG 1, UGG 2

La Riviere

Winnipeg

0.0

?

Carberry, La Riviere

 

Federal, Soo

Fort Whyte

9.3

?

 

 

UGG

Fortress

11.6

?

 

 

 

La Salle

18.3

1929

 

 

Paterson

Domain

24.4

?

 

 

Pool

Osborne

29.7

?

 

 

Pool

McTavish

35.5

?

 

 

Pool

Trump

39.3

?

 

 

 

Morris

42.6

1904

 

 

Paterson, Pool

Sewell

49.9

1929

 

 

 

Rosenfeld

56.1

1890

Gretna

 

Federal, Pool (2)

Horndean

61.4

?

Carman

 

Federal

Plum Coulee

65.7

1902

Carman

 

Federal, Pool, UGG

Winkler

73.8

1906

 

 

Federal, Inter-Ocean, Pool A, Pool B, Cargill

Morden

81.2

1905

 

Abandoned (1 May 2008)

Inter-Ocean, Pool (2), UGG

Thornhill

87.8

1890

 

Pool, Ogilvie, Lake of the Woods

Darlingford

94.5

1923

 

Federal, Pool

Rudyard

?

?

Kaleida

 

Manitou

102.3

1900

 

Pool (2), UGG

Binney

105.4

?

 

 

La Riviere

112.9

1898

Napinka

Federal, Pool

Lenore

Brandon

0.0

?

Broadview, Carberry, Rapid City

 

Federal (2), National, Pool, UGG

Chater

5.5

?

 

 

 

Forrest

16.3

?

Rapid City

Abandoned (31 July 1980), R-26840

Pool

Carnegie

23.2

1904

 

 

Pendennis

27.2

1904

 

Pool

Cossar

33.2

?

 

 

Wheatland

35.3

1910

 

UGG

Bradwardine

43.7

1910

 

Pool

Harding

46.7

1919

 

Pool

Kenton

50.3

1902

 

Pool (3)

Lenore

57.2

1902

 

Pool

Lyleton

Deloraine

0.0

?

Napinka

Abandoned (1996)

Federal, Pool A, Pool B, Pool D, UGG

Goodlands

8.4

1909

 

Federal, Pool (2)

Cranmer

12.4

?

 

UGG (2)

Waskada

17.2

1898

 

Abandoned (31 August 1983), WDR-00349

Paterson, Pool

Dalny

21.9

?

 

Pool (2)

Coulter

28.0

?

 

Abandoned (7 December 1977), R-25745

Pool

Cameron

32.4

?

 

Lake of the Woods

Lyleton

37.2

1900

 

Paterson, Pool

McAuley

McAuley

0.0

?

Rocanville

Abandoned (July 1962)

Pool

Manson

8.7

?

 

 

Kirkella

16.8

?

Broadview

Pool

Miniota

Gauthier

0.0

1900

Rapid City

Abandoned (30 December 1980), R-30800

 

Pettapiece

4.9

1927

 

National

Floors

9.5

1917

 

National

Oak River

15.6

1902

 

Pool, UGG 1, UGG 2

Pitlochry

?

?

 

National

Hamiota

23.6

1906

 

Pool A, Pool B

Chumah

?

?

 

Abandoned (31 December 1978), R-26840

National

Crandall

32.4

1912

 

Pool

Arrow River

37.6

1909

 

Federal

Miniota

43.8

1900

 

Pool

Minnedosa

Portage la Prairie

0.0

?

Carberry

 

Pool (3), UGG

Genest

6.1

?

 

 

 

Macdonald

9.9

1900

 

 

Pool

Westbourne

17.1

1890

 

 

UGG

Westroc

?

 

 

 

Pool

Woodside

26.8

?

 

 

 

Gladstone

35.1

1900

 

 

Pool, UGG

Keyes

43.2

?

 

 

 

Arden

51.5

1923

 

 

Pool (2)

Neepawa

61.0

1907

 

 

Pool

Haanel

?

?

 

 

 

Franklin

70.2

1897

 

 

Pool (2)

Ameer

?

?

 

 

 

Minnedosa

78.6

1920

Bredenbury, Rapid City

 

Pool (3), UGG

Napinka

La Riviere

0.0

?

La Riviere

Abandoned (1 May 2008)

Federal, Pool

Wood Bay

7.5

1897

Snowflake

Pool

Pilot Mound

12.4

1930

 

Federal, Pool A, Pool B

Crystal City

17.0

1898

 

Paterson (2), Pool

Clearwater

21.2

1903

 

Federal, Pool

Mather

28.7

?

 

Pool, UGG

Cartwright

35.5

1890

 

Federal 1, Federal 2, Pool

Holmfield

42.8

1898

 

Harrison

Killarney

51.4

1905

 

Paterson, Pool A, Pool B, UGG

Rhodes

57.7

?

 

 

Pool

Ninga

62.2

1900

 

 

Pool (2), UGG

Boissevain

69.8

1902

Napinka

 

Parrish & Heimbecker, Paterson, Pool (2), UGG

Cadzow

75.1

?

 

 

 

Whitewater

80.3

1926

 

 

 

Naples

85.3

?

 

 

 

Deloraine

89.9

1901

Lyleton

 

Federal, Pool A, Pool B, Pool D, UGG

Leighton

95.2

?

 

 

Pool

Medora

100.2

1900

 

 

Pool, UGG

Napinka

108.7

?

Estevan

 

Ogilvie, Pool (2)

Rapid City

Brandon

0.0

?

Broadview, Carberry, Lenore

Abandoned (1980)

Federal (2), National, Pool, UGG

Chater

5.5

?

 

 

Baragar

9.5

?

 

 

Forrest

16.3

1900

Lenore

Pool

Varcoe

23.8

?

Varcoe

 

Gauthier

33.3

?

Miniota

 

Rapid City

35.8

1900

 

National, Pool

Riverdale

42.7

1912

 

 

Minnedosa

51.3

?

Minnedosa

Pool (3), UGG

Reston

Reston

0.0

?

Arcola

Abandoned (September 1960)

Pool, UGG

Ewart

8.1

?

 

Pool

Ebor

16.6

1907

 

Pool

Rocanville

Virden

0.0

?

Broadview

 

Pool, UGG

Scallion

?

 

 

 

 

Harmsworth

8.8

?

 

 

Lake of the Woods

Two Creeks

60.8

?

 

 

 

Reeder

68.4

?

 

 

 

Willen

73.5

?

 

 

Lake of the Woods

McAuley

83.6

?

McAuley

 

Pool (2)

Russell

Binscarth

0.0

?

Bredenbury

Abandoned (1996)

Pool, UGG

Penrith

5.2

?

 

 

Russell

11.0

1928

 

Pool, UGG

Madill

?

?

 

Paterson

Cracknell

17.8

1923

 

Paterson, UGG (2)

Inglis

23.9

1923

 

Northern, Paterson, Reliance, UGG

Snowflake

Wood Bay

0.0

?

Napinka

Abandoned (31 December 1980), R-27650

Pool

Harbor

4.4

?

 

 

Purves

9.8

1900

 

Pool, Federal

Snowflake

16.2

1898

Fallison

Pool (2), Federal

Mowbray

25.9

?

 

Abandoned (?)

 

Windygates

31.9

?

 

 

Varcoe

MacGregor

0.0

?

Carberry

Abandoned (26 September 1975), R-21119

Pool (2)

Hugo

7.2

?

 

 

Pine Creek

11.0

?

 

 

Edrans

17.3

1913

 

 

Wellwood

26.7

1905

 

Abandoned (30 July 1978), R-26840

UGG

Oberon

33.5

?

 

Pool

Brookdale

36.9

1905

 

Pool, UGG

Moore Park

47.0

1911

 

Pool (2)

Varcoe

55.5

1910

Miniota

 

Winnipeg Beach

Winnipeg

0.0

?

Carberry, La Riviere

 

Federal, Soo

Middlechurch

8.3

?

 

 

 

Parkview

12.9

?

 

 

 

Lower Fort Garry

19.5

1904

 

 

Federal

Selkirk

22.9

1928

 

 

Pool

Clandeboye

30.9

?

 

 

Pool

Petersfield

35.1

1927

 

 

 

Netley

38.6

1900

 

 

Pool

Matlock

44.8

?

 

 

 

Whytewold

45.8

?

 

 

 

Ponemah

46.9

?

 

 

 

Winnipeg Beach

49.0

?

 

 

 

Boundary Park

50.1

?

 

 

 

Beachside

50.7

?

 

 

 

Sandy Hook

51.8

?

 

 

 

Husavick

53.6

?

 

 

 

Gimli

58.4

1906

 

Abandoned (3 June 1991), 1991-R-290

Parrish & Heimbecker

Loni Beach

58.9

?

 

 

McElheran

63.0

?

 

 

Camp Morton

64.0

?

 

 

Arnes

70.3

?

 

 

Hnausa

77.4

?

 

 

Riverton

83.8

1917

 

Federal, Pool

See Also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Railway Stations

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Canadian Pacific Railway Communications Building / Manitoba Metis Federation Building (150 Henry Avenue, Winnipeg)

Manitoba Organization: Canadian Pacific Railway Curling Club / Victoria Curling Club

Manitoba Business: Canadian National Railway

Manitoba Business: Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway

The Background of the Battle of Fort Whyte by James A. Jackson
MHS Transactions, Series 3, 1945-46 Season

Early Manitoba Railroads by Howard W. Winkler
MHS Transactions, Series 3, Number 10, 1953-54 Season

Rails Across the Red - Selkirk or Winnipeg by Ruben C. Bellan
MHS Transactions, Series 3, 1961-62 Season

Railways and the Manitoba School Question by James A. Jackson
MHS Transactions, Series 3, Number 30, 1973-74 Season

John M. Egan, A Railway Officer in Winnipeg, 1882-1886: An Account of Canadian Pacific’s First Years in the Manitoba Capital by Omer Lavallee
MHS Transactions, Series 3, Number 33, 1976-77 Season

The 1883 Locomotive Engineers' Strike in the Canadian North West by David Spector
Manitoba Pageant, Volume 22, Number 1, Winter 1977

The Country Railway Station in Manitoba by Charles W. Bohi and H. Roger Grant
Manitoba Pageant, Volume 23, Number 3, Spring 1978

Review: Glenbow Museum, The Great CPR Exposition: The Impact of the Railway on Western Canada, 1883-1930 by Donald B. Smith
Manitoba History, Number 9, Spring 1985

The Rise and Fall of the Manitoba Railway Garden by Edwinna von Baeyer
Manitoba History, Number 31, Spring 1996

A Fallen Splendour: The Challener Murals of Winnipeg’s Royal Alexandra Hotel by Susan Moffatt Rozniatowski
Manitoba History, Number 42, Autumn/Winter 2001-2002

General Rosser’s Legacy by Ken Storie
Manitoba History, Number 56, October 2007

Sources:

“Named General Manager of C.P.R. western lines,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 October 1918, page 8.

“Train dispatcher for C.P.R. promoted; Cline sent to McLeod,” Winnipeg Tribune, 14 September 1916, page 5.

“New C.P.R. dispatcher,” Winnipeg Tribune, 28 September 1917, page 5.

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Canadian Pacific Timetable, Folder C, Western Canada and Transcontinental Schedule, April 27, 1958 to October 25, 1958. [Charles Cooper’s Railway Pages]

Canadian Pacific’s Western Depots: The Country Stations in Western Canada by Charles W. Bohi and Leslie S. Kozma, South Platte Press, 1993.

We thank Chuck Bohi, Matt Bialek, and Mike Lisowski for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 27 June 2023