Churchill was a very successful port for wheat until a few years ago. It was intended to be a major seaport. It has been there for hundreds of years—I don't know how many hundreds—since the English built a fort there. From northern Manitoba to Churchill there is a short railroad, and anything you want to send to Churchill has to stop at Thompson, be loaded onto a rail car, tied down, and then sent for only a couple of hundred miles by road.
On December 5th, 2011. See this statement in context.