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Meadow Portage is a community in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Meadow Portage
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]

Demographics

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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