Beaudry Provincial Park

城市概覽

History Land assembly for Beaudry Provincial Park began in 1975 by the Province of Manitoba from several privately owned landholdings along the Assiniboine River west of the Town of Headingley, Manitoba. The major portion of the park is comprised of a 2,000-acre landholding featuring 5 miles (8 km) of frontage on the south side of the river that had been owned by prominent Winnipeg businessman and mining entrepreneur J. D. Perrin. He had purchased a 1,200-acre farm from England's Pilkington family (of Pilkington Glass fame) in 1944. The Pilkingtons had owned the property since the early 1920s. J. D. Perrin named the property Beaudry Farm, after Canadian National Railway's Beaudry Station, which was located adjacent to the farm on the CN line that had been built by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and used from 1894 to 1972. The Beaudry name had derived from a family that had once owned large sections of land in the area in the early years of the 20th century. After 1950, the property was jointly owned by J.D. Perrin and his son J. D. (Jack) Perrin, Jr. The Perrin property was expanded with the purchase in 1963 of the neighbouring 600-acre farm to the East owned by the Les Fansett family. Around the same time, the Perrins had purchased from CN the abandoned Beaudry Station and relocated it to the bank of the Assiniboine River near the entrance to the present park's riverbottom forest hiking and skiing trails. These trails had been hand cut through the riverbottom forest area for horseback trail riding by Jack Perrin's children, John, Suzanne and Marshall. The station building was fully rehabilitated and used by J.D. Perrin, until his death in 1967, and his wife Ruth as a country retreat until it was destroyed by fire during the winter of 1977. Jack Perrin and his family had constructed a ranch house on the riverbank a short distance south of the station house. Under the Perrin family's ownership approximately 1,200 acres of the Beaudry property were under cultiva

如何抵達

Leaving Winnipeg, travel west 10 km/6.2 mi. on Roblin Blvd./PR 241. Access is via a short gravel drive off of Provincial Road 241 west of Headingley.

住宿

Camping is not permitted. There is no lodging in the park. Look for lodging in Winnipeg.