84-184 Fore Street, Portland, 1924
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City of Portland - Planning & Development
Grand Trunk Railroad Station
84-184 Fore Street
Portland was still Canada's chief winter port for western grain when the Grand Trunk Railroad Station, designed by Spier & Rohr, opened on India Street in 1903. It replaced earlier stations.
Beginning in the 1870s, massive grain elevators like the one visible here behind the station, were built near the tracks. By the mid 1920s, the Canadian government began to ship grain to Halifax, Nova Scotia, bypassing Portland entirely by the 1930s.
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