Railway Museum Traditional Cache
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The CNR Station is, quite literally, the nucleus of Dauphin, the point from which springs the town’s layout of streets. How appropriate then that William Mackenzie and Donald Mann, founders of the Canadian Northern Railway – and original owners of much of the town’s property – should, in 1912, bestow upon Dauphin’s cardinal location this strikingly handsome building. Only Union Station in Winnipeg outranked Dauphin’s depot as the Company’s most important station design in Manitoba; an indication of the prominence Dauphin had achieved as a divisional point
in Canadian Northern’s network. Although Canadian Northern was absorbed into the Canadian National Railway in 1917, the old Company’s crest remains to grace the datestone placed high above either side of the central block.
Architecturally, the station building is as robust and sleek as the steam locomotives that once pulled in alongside. The robust qualities emanate from the solidity of the red brick walls, the rough texturing of the limestone base and decorative trim, and from the fortress-like image given by the slender turrets at the corners of the high central block.
There is energy in the crescendo effect of the building’s silhouette, as the structure rises in steps from the low outer sections up to the iron finial of the pyramidal roof at its center. But yet how sleek the whole design appears, wrapped in the horizontal stone stringcourses and the
enveloping low pitch roof that appears to rest effortlessly upon the large graceful brackets below the eaves.
The CN Station, designated a heritage building federally on December 6, 1996 and provincially on January 27, 1998 has had its exterior restored to its former glory and now houses the federal department of Fisheries and Oceans, The Dauphin Rail Museum, Dauphin & District Chamber of
Commerce.
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