Municipal Heritage Site

Flin Flon Museum

Flin Flon (Part), Manitoba

Also known as Canadian National Railway Station, Chemins de Fer Nationaux du Canada

Exterior view of the Flin Flon Museum, Flin Flon, 2014.

Exterior view of the Flin Flon Museum, Flin Flon, 2014.

Photo: Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Tourism, Culture, Heritage, Sport and Consumer Protection, 2015

Built
1934
Recognized
2014
By
Local government

The register’s text, word for word

Description

Flin Flon Museum (1934) is housed in a former

Canadian National Railway Station, originally located in downtown Flin Flon and moved to its current location in 1983. The municipal designation applies to the building on its footprint.

Heritage value

Flin Flon Museum is valued as a symbol of the railway and its historic importance to northern development, and as a community museum. It is an attractive storey-and-a-half example of a 2nd Class Canadian National Railway Station, the type of station situated in communities of notable size. With its paired tall sash windows, broad cross-gabled hipped roof with deep bellcast eaves supported by decorative brackets, and ornamental half-timbering in the gable front over the office, the station is a fine surviving representative of the type.

Source: City of Flin Flon By-law No. 2013-02, 7 January

2014

Character‑defining elements

Key elements that define the exterior heritage character of the Flin Flon Museum include:

- the basic massing: a long rectangle covered by a low-pitched hipped shingled roof, with a gable-roofed crossing wing terminating at the front in a shallow bay with windows on three sides, and at the rear in a short rectangular wing; the former passenger area to the right of the projecting wing; the former baggage and freight handling area to the left

  • the light-painted stucco cladding
  • the organization

of the fenestration: large window openings containing paired tall sash windows divided horizontally into three: a square pane at the top with a larger oblong pane in the middle and small sliding ventilating panes at the bottom

  • the main passenger doorway at centre right, with freight doors to the left
  • the

contrasting-coloured ornamental half-timbering in the gable front

  • the deep eaves, supported by large,

decorative wooden brackets

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Location

Flin Flon (Part), Manitoba, Canada

54.76840° N, 101.87600° W

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From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, as last updated on December 12, 2025. The register’s text is shown word for word.