Dugald is a community in
Manitoba
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, Canada, located 22 kilometres east of
Winnipeg
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at the junction of
PTH 15 and
Provincial Road 206 in the
Rural Municipality of Springfield. It was the site of a railway accident in 1947.
In the
Dugald train disaster
The Dugald rail accident was a railway accident that occurred on September 1, 1947, in Dugald, Manitoba, Canada, resulting in the deaths of 31 people.
Background
A westbound train, The ''Minaki Campers’ Special'' operating as Passenger Extra 60 ...
of September 1947, a
Canadian National Railway
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CN i ...
passenger train consisting of older wooden-bodied
passenger car
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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
National Hockey League
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goaltender
Trevor Kidd
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, who played in 387 regular season games for four teams.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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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.
See also
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Lists of rail accidents
References
External links
Town of Dugald(archived)
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Designated places in Manitoba
Unincorporated communities in Eastman Region, Manitoba