Portage la Prairie, Manitoba is home to a unique railway site. The two major transcontinental railways – the Canadian National Railway (CNR) and the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) – cross each other at what is known as a “diamond junction.”
The History of Fort la Reine
The area now called Portage la Prairie, Manitoba is the traditional territory of and home to various Indigenous nations including the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe, Cree, and Dakota/Sioux peoples. French explorers came in 1738.