Meadow Portage, Manitoba
Meadow Portage is a community in the Canadian province of Manitoba. A designated place in Canadian census data, it had a population of 70 in the Canada 2006 Census.
Meadow Portage is the name of a two kilometer fur-trade era portage across the isthmus between Lake Winnipegosis and Lake Manitoba. The portage avoids a longer river-journey option north, a savings of about 70 km to Lake Manitoba.
Meadow Portage was originally inhabited by the Cree, Assiniboines, and the Ojibway peoples. The Hudson Bay Company 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.
