Moose Jaw Train Station - Manitoba Street West, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

Architect	Hugh G. Jones, Canadian Pacific Railway's architect
Date Built	1920-1922
Location	Manitoba Street West
Description
This former station is made up of a two-storey waiting area,  a four story office block and a six-storey stone clock tower.  In their book, "Moose Jaw: People, Places History", John Larsen and Maurice Richard Libby, say this about the station, "The CPR Station was the busiest rail passenger terminal in western Canada in the mid-fifties, seeing more than fifty trains a day."  By 1965 this had fallen dramatically to two remaining arrivals and departures, "one westbound train in the small hours of the morning and one eastbound every evening." Below is a view of the booking hall in the 1980s. .... "The final blow would come in 1989 when Via, the Crown Corporation that took over passenger services in 1977, closed the southern route through Moose Jaw and Calgary..." The building sat empty for a number of years but it was designated an historic railway station in 1991.  Today it provides office space to a number of companies and the departure / booking hall is home to a Liquor Store that retains many of the original features.

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