The photo features men and equipment working a derailment scene somewhere between a Manitoba site and Yorkton. It appears to have occurred at a bridge over a river or creek. This railway company operated in Manitoba between 1881 and 1900. It was referred to as colonization railway, as were several others operating out of Manitoba. It is the railway that entered Yorkton in 1891. It brought numerous settlers from Eastern Canada to settle in Yorkton and the surrounding countryside, as well as the numerous Ukrainian immigrants who arrived here in 1897 to take up free homesteads in the outlying regions of Yorkton. The railway company was sold to the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1900. On the right side, note the telegraph poles, each one reinforced by 2 poles. Note also, the presence of 2 or 3 children in close proximity to the scene of the accident. This would not be allowed today!
This photo had a caption entitled 鈥淏uilding of the railroad to Yorkton.鈥� When double checking with retired Canadian National Railway Engineer, Launey Weitzel of Yorkton, it was declared an error, and identified as a derailment.聽聽聽聽 聽
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Heritage Researcher,
City of Yorkton Archives,
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