I looked at it - my grandmother lived in Brandon - and the address is 46 Railway Ave. Like you, I do not see it. I do see two grain silos, but no railway.
Looks like it took a train from Winnipeg to Saint Paul Minn. I can't read the RPO marking. I don't see a New York received mark either. Shame about the stains.
Look it up in the Canada Post directory. It gives you a map spot near Winnipeg and the town has a post code. It's an official border crossing point today.
There should be a New York transit/receiving mark, but they were getting somewhat sloppy by the 1900s with registered mail. The R.P.O. postmark is a Canadian one, WINNIPEG & ...NKA R.P.O.
According to Manitoba Post Offices, by William Robinson, Snowflake opened November 1880, and was still open as of 1988 (the date of the book). Its location is given as: 28-01-09-W1.
For those that are unfamiliar with the location format I gave earlier, 28-01-09-W1 reads as section 28, township 1, range 9, west of prime meridian. With the prime meridian at 97 degrees, 27 minutes, 28.4 seconds, this corresponds to a location about 52 miles west of there, and about 5 miles north of the USA border.
When the railway line into Snowflake was abandoned, the writing was on the wall for this small town in south-central Manitoba. Border Branch No. 207 of the Royal Canadian Legion, originally founded at Snowflake in 1947, surrendered its charter in 1986 and its war memorial, built in 1961, was moved to La Riviere in 2006. The Snowflake School closed in 1992 and the United Church closed in 1994. The village's two forlorn-looking grain elevators, weathered street signs, and unmaintained roads and buildings bear testament to the gradual decline of this once-thriving farming community.
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