Gypsumville is a community in north-central Manitoba in Canada. It is located approximately 242 kilometres north-northwest from Winnipeg on the north bank of Lake St. Martin in the Rural Municipality of Grahamdale. There are 285 people living in and 175 housing units within the community.[1]
The community was named Gypsumville after a post office with a same name was opened in 1905. The office was named after the gypsum deposits found in the area. Deposits were discovered in 1888 and by 1890 mining operations begun. A shortline railway was built from Gypsumville to the shore of Lake Manitoba, where the gypsum was transloaded on to barges and shipped to a railhead on the Whitemud River at south end of the lake, near present town of Westbourne.[2] In 1912 the Canadian National Railway built a rail line in to Gypsumville. Both of the railway lines are now abandoned.
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