Port Mann

Port Mann townsite was created in 1911 in the municipality of Surrey, British Columbia.

Borrowing from mid-nineteenth century notions of Baron Haussmann’s Paris, Port Mann was laid out by landscape architect Frederick S. Todd[3] with streets radiating from a central circus in the residential section.

Neither the model town of Port Mann nor the extensive industrial investment was ever fully realized.

Soon after the sale of land at Port Mann, Canadian Northern Railway was involved in a similar development near Montreal where the Town of Mount Royal was created in 1912 and construction was started on the Mount Royal Tunnel on July 8, 1912.

On November 5, 1916, due to inability to pay its debt obligations, the Government of Canada acquired 510,000 shares of 600,000 to take ownership of Canadian Northern Railway.