
View from the north of the primary elevation of the Morden Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Morden, 2011.
Photo: Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 2011
- Built
- 1906
- Recognized
- 2009
- By
- Local government
The register’s text, word for word
Description
The Morden
Canadian Pacific Railway Station is a two-storey frame railway station topped by a dramatic roof and with a station agent's residence on the second floor. Since 1973 it has stood as part of the Pembina
Threshermen's Museum, located on the south side of Highway 3 between Morden and Winkler in the R.M.
of Stanley. It is part of a collection that includes seven other historic buildings from the area. The municipal designation applies to the building and its footprint.
Heritage value
The Morden Canadian Pacific
Railway (CPR) Station, from 1906, is valued as an exceptionally well-preserved example of the work of eminent railway architect Ralph B. Pratt, who made the design in 1899. Four other extant stations in southern Manitoba follow the same pattern. The station, with its substantial massing enlivened by a flamboyant and complicated roof, conveys the importance and excitement of the railway in the period during which early prairie settlements were consolidated into substantial towns and cities in southern Manitoba. Originally on 7th Street in Morden, the station has excellent physical integrity, and retains nearly all of its original exterior and interior features such as the cladding material, windows and basic form, and interior details.
SourceR.M. of Stanley By-law No. 8-09, 6 August 2009.
Character‑defining elements
Key elements that define the exterior heritage character of the Morden CPR Station include:
- the massing,
with a two-storey central block flanked by one-and-a-half storey wings on either side
- the complex roof
form, with a steeply-pitched hipped roof, swooping outward at the two ends of the ridge to protect small triangular windows, with a central pyramidal roof (with complicated peak) over the two-storey central half-gable section, incorporating two hipped dormers each on the north and south sides
- the deep overhanging
eaves, supported on timber brackets
- the openings, including the various windows, single and grouped,
with simple wood muntins and casings, and wood storm windows, and the multiple entrances featuring simple wood panelled and glazed doors, and a panelled freight door facing the track at the east end
- the telegrapher's
bay projecting from the south side of the building
- the materials, consisting of clapboard wall cladding,
with cedar shingles on the roof and central half-gable
Key elements that define the station's interior include:
- the plan, with original divisions into freight area, passenger waiting room, office space,
etc.
-the functional details, fitting and furnishings, including the ticket wicket, fireplace, mouldings, hardwood floors throughout, period benches, period signage, wainscoting, wood panelled doors, staircase etc.
- the intact configuration of the station agent's residence on the second floor
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Location
Morden, Manitoba, Canada
49.19020° N, 98.01550° 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.