Dugald is a community in

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, Canada, located 10 kilometres east of

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at the junction of PTH 15 and Provincial Road 206 in the

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. It was the site of a railway accident in 1947. In the Dugald train disaster of September 1947, a

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passenger train consisting of older wooden-bodied

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s collided with a transcontinental passenger train made up of newer steel cars, resulting in severe damage and fatalities on the older train. This accident led to the retirement of the less crashworthy wooden cars. Dugald was also the home to the Costume Museum, a museum dedicated to Canadian fashion. The museum relocated to downtown Winnipeg in 2006. Dugald is the birthplace of former

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goaltender

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, who played in 387 regular season games for four teams.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Dugald had a population of 614 living in 279 of its 284 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 580. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

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Town of Dugald
(archived) {{MBDivision12 Designated places in Manitoba Unincorporated communities in Eastman Region, Manitoba

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