Meadow Portage is a community in the

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province of

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. Meadow Portage is the name of a two kilometre fur-trade era portage across the

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between

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and Lake Manitoba. 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,

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s, and the

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peoples. The

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then set up a trading post near the shore of Lake Manitoba in order to facilitate the fur trade. The telephone area code for Meadow Portage is (204).

Demographics

In the

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conducted by Statistics Canada, Meadow Portage had a population of 72 living in 37 of its 147 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 67. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

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