Portage la Prairie Canadian Pacific Railway Station

• the expansive station grounds on 3rd Street NE
• the building's east-west orientation, immediately parallel to railway tracks to the north

Key elements of the station's Romanesque Revival styling include:

• the basic rectangular 1 1/2-storey mass enveloped by walls of clay brick wythes atop a high rusticated sandstone base
• the commanding low-pitched hip roof featuring wood shingles and slightly bellcast, deep overhanging eaves supported by large wooden brackets spanning from the eaves down to the top of the sandstone base
• the roof interrupted on the north and south slopes by single large gable dormers, each featuring brick ends with a bank of three windows separated by rounded brick elements and encased in continuous stone lintels and sills
• the rectangular openings throughout, save the windowless west end, with most windows featuring heavy rusticated stone lintels and sills, and the south-facing doors with an added keystone
• the prominent north and south main entrances inset in large rusticated stone arches with radiating heads
• the rectangular telegrapher's bay facing the tracks on the north elevation
• the details, including the sandstone coping on the raised gable ends, and inside, the utilitarian details and finishes, including wood plank floors throughout, wooden wainscotting and moulding, plaster walls, two fireplaces, etc.