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Canadian Northern Train at an Elevator, 1910
Archives of Manitoba, Transportation, Railway.
In 1899, two Manitoba railways amalgamated to form the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR). Two years later, the CNoR really took off with its lease of the Northern Pacific and Manitoba railway system for $300,000 a year giving it 512 miles of railway and an additional 700 miles under construction. (The newly elected R.P. Roblin Conservative government had worked behind the scenes to ensure that CPR attempts to lease the Northern Pacific and Manitoba had been unsuccessful.) Of particular significance were the lines the CNoR was constructing north and west of Dauphin (including Winnipegosis, Swan River and Gilbert Plains), areas which previously had been poorly served by railways.
Lloyd Penner, “A History of Railroads in Manitoba” (Paper commissioned by the Transportation Heritage & Technology Centre), 2002, p. 24.
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