Canadian Pacific Railway, Station and Hotel at Moose Jaw(1898)
Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
Commercial, Station [partial basement, 2 floors, 2 waiting rooms, dining and lunch rooms, offices, 21 bedrooms]; brick and stone; wall bearing

Client: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Architect: E. Maxwell

Description: Moose Jaw was, not unlike McAdam Junction (42), a railway hub. It was deemed appropriate to commission a grand station. E. Maxwell designed a long, two-story brick-faced edifice 200 feet long and 34 feet wide. Station facilities and the dining room were located on the ground floor, 30 guest bedrooms above. Twin towers flanked the central bay window allowing the station operator to watch traffic. Moose Jaw station shares some of its details with the New Westminster Station (41) including its symmetrical Châteauesque silhouette. It displays a more exuberant volumetry, however, and its many gables reminds one of the Sicamous Junction hotel (37). Like the latter, the Moose Jaw hotel and station was eventually pulled down, leaving only the New Westminster station as testimony to E. Maxwell’s CPR work in Western Canada.

Holdings: Station (partial basement, 2 floors, 2 waiting rooms, dining and lunch rooms, offices, 21 bedrooms); brick and stone; wall bearing
20 Drawings: 20 ink on linen
7 Working drawings: block plan, foundation plan, floor plans, elevations, sections
13 Detail drawings: elevations, waiting room, staircases, bays, doors, fittings