Meadow Portage is a community in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
Meadow Portage | |
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Country | Canada |
Province | Manitoba |
Population | |
• Total | 70 |
Area code | (204) |
Website | http://www.meadowportage.ca/ |
Meadow Portage is the name of a two kilometre fur-trade era portage across the isthmus between Lake Winnipegosis and Lake Manitoba.[1] The portage avoids a longer river-journey option north (via Long Island Bay to the West Waterhen River and Waterhen Lake, then a sharp turn south to the Waterhen River), a savings of about 70 km to Lake Manitoba.
Meadow Portage was originally inhabited by the Cree, Assiniboines, and the Ojibway peoples. The Hudson Bay Company then set up a trading post near the shore of Lake Manitoba in order to facilitate the fur trade.[2] The telephone area code for Meadow Portage is (204).[3]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Meadow Portage had a population of 72 living in 37 of its 147 total private dwellings, a change of 7.5% from its 2016 population of 67. With a land area of 115.61 km2 (44.64 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.6/km2 (1.6/sq mi) in 2021.[4]
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