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Miami Railway Station

Miami Railway Station
A small dirt path leads from the bottom right to the side of a red building and a five-step deck stairway at the end of which is a door. The side of the building is two stories, with two narrow windows on the bottom floor flanking the number 100, below which is a railroad crossing as a decoration and above which is a sign reading "Miami". Above these are two square windows. The building extends away to the left, with the steep roof pierced by a gable, beyond which is the roof of the single-storey freight shed. The walls consist of horizontal planks painted red, and the window frames are painted white. Behind the building are a few trees, with a cloudy sky in the background, and fronting the structure is green grass, patchy in some areas.
Former names Miami Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Station
Canadian Northern Railway Station
Canadian National Railway Station
Miami Railway Station Museum Association
General information
Town or city Miami, Manitoba
Country Canada
Completed 1889
Technical details
Floor count 2
Website
www.miamirailwaystationmuseum.com
Official name Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern) National Historic Site of Canada
Designated 15 June 1976

The Miami Railway Station is a former railway station that was built in Miami, Manitoba, by the Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Company in 1889. Designated as a National Historic Site of Canada in 1976, it is now a railway museum that operates during the summer. The museum is located at the southern end of the village near the intersection of Highway 23 and Letain Street.

From 1879 to 1882 the provincial government of John Norquay in the 4th Manitoba Legislature was making greater demands for provincial rights from the Government of Canada. This strategy yielded an expansion of the province's borders in 1881 and increased subsidies from the federal government, but the province also ceded rights it had previously claimed. It also accepted the federal government's control over chartering railways in the province instituted as a federal disallowance, in which the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) operated as a monopoly. In 1885, facing an economic crisis, the provincial government was offered an increased subsidy of $330,000 annually, but had to accept a "finality clause" representing a "final settlement of all outstanding issues" between the provincial and federal government; it would prevent the province from seeking control over its natural resources or asking for boundary extensions, and it could not charter railways running to the United States.

In 1887, Norquay was driven from office by a fabricated scandal, and Thomas Greenway assumed the premiership. He appointed Joseph Martin as the province's Attorney-General and Commissioner of Railways. Greenway engaged in separate discussions with executives from CPR, the Manitoba Central Railway, and the US-based Northern Pacific Railway (NPR), hoping to expand railway service in the province and reduce freight costs. He and Martin negotiated a deal between the province and Northern Pacific Railway in mid 1888 that would result in NPR building the Red River Valley Railway connecting Winnipeg to its US network, and two branch lines, one from Winnipeg to Portage la Prairie, the other from Morris to Brandon.


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