The annual meeting of the Hudson Bay Route Association (HBRA) is coming up in Flin Flon and a federal cabinet minister will make his way north.
Jim Carr, Canada’s minister of international trade diversification and a Winnipeg-based Liberal MP, has been confirmed by event organizers to provide the keynote address to the group’s luncheon at the Flin Flon Community Hall Aug. 7.
“As the Port of Churchill has reopened for business and is now under a new and exciting ownership structure, it is gaining new prominence. We are very pleased that Minister Carr will be with us to provide an address to our delegates,” said Elden Boon, HBRA president, in a statement to the media.
The HBRA is an advocacy group hoping to promote the use of both the Port of Churchill and the Hudson Bay Railway. After grain shipments gradually slowed to a stop in 2015 and the rail line was damaged by overland flooding and shut down in 2017, new ownership funded repairs to the line, helped restart rail service and began reopening the port. The first grain shipment to Churchill in years reached the community in mid-July.
