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P38-493
Reference number: P38-493

Place : McAdam
Date : c 1900

Built in 1900-1901, the McAdam Railway Station was designed by the renowned Canadian architect Edward Maxwell. The chateau-style architecture was a corporate symbol of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the McAdam Station remains a rare surviving example of a CPR station.The railway station has become a defining symbol of the town of McAdam and remains an icon of the important role played by rail transportation in the development of the town. The adjacent rail yard once employed 650 people locally.McAdam was the junction of two railway lines, the St. Andrews and Quebec Railroad Company and the European and North American Railway Company (later to become the Canadian Pacific Railway), connecting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia with the United States and Quebec. The station was designated a national historic site in 1976.

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