Gypsumville

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Gypsumville
Location of Gypsumville in Manitoba
Coordinates: 51°46′8″N98°38′5″W / 51.76889°N 98.63472°W / 51.76889; -98.63472 Coordinates: 51°46′8″N98°38′5″W / 51.76889°N 98.63472°W / 51.76889; -98.63472
Country Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Province Flag of Manitoba.svg  Manitoba
Region Interlake
Census Division No. 18
Government
   MP James Bezan
   MLA Derek Johnson
Time zone UTC−6 (CST)
  Summer (DST) UTC−5 (CDT)
Postal Code
R0C 1J0
Area code(s) 204
NTS Map062O15
GNBC CodeGAKCE

Gypsumville is a community in Manitoba, Canada. It is 242 kilometres north-northwest of Winnipeg in the Interlake Region of Manitoba on the north bank of Lake St. Martin in the Rural Municipality of Grahamdale.

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There are 285 people living in and 175 housing units within the community. [1]

History

The community was named Gypsumville after a post office with a same name was opened in 1905. The office was named after the gypsum deposits found in the area. Deposits were discovered in 1888 and by 1890 mining operations begun.

A shortline railway was built from Gypsumville to the shore of Lake Manitoba, where the gypsum was transloaded on to barges and shipped to a railhead on the Whitemud River at south end of the lake, near the present community of Westbourne. [2]

In 1912, the Canadian Northern Railway, which later became part of Canadian National Railway, built a rail line in to Gypsumville along the CN Oak Point subdivision.

Both of the railway lines are now abandoned with CN closing their line in 1992. [3]

CFS Gypsumville

In 1962 RCAF Station Gypsumville was opened in town as a Pinetree Line radar station by the RCAF and supported as a mini-base until 1987 when the then Canadian Forces Station Gypsumville closed down. [4]

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References

  1. Broadband.gc.ca: Community profile [ permanent dead link ]
  2. William Martin (1856-1932) Manitoba Historical Society.
  3. "Manitoba Business: Canadian Northern Railway / Canadian National Railway".
  4. "MANITOBA – Canadian Military History".