First transcontinental passenger train hauled by a diamond-stacked
4-4-0 stops at Winnipeg, June 1886. Manitoba Archives
This impressive looking structure was built 1882-3, gutted by fire,
it was rebuilt in a slightly different style.(below)
Note structure to the left, sign reads: C.P.Ry. Dining Station
Immigrants by the hundreds, coming to the West. Circa 1900 Canadian
Pacific Archives
Immigrants arriving in the 1890's Colonist
car interior.
It was replaced by an even bigger structure (below) in 1904 that still
exists, though not as a railway station.
