The community was named Gypsumville after a post office with a same name was opened in 1905. The office was named after the
gypsum deposits found in the area. Deposits were discovered in 1888 and by 1890 mining operations begun. A shortline
railway was built from Gypsumville to the shore of
Lake Manitoba, where the gypsum was
transloaded on to
barges and shipped to a railhead on the Whitemud River at south end of the lake, near the present community of
Westbourne. In 1912, the
Canadian Northern Railway, which later became part of
Canadian National Railway, built a rail line in to Gypsumville along the CN Oak Point subdivision. Both of the railway lines are now abandoned with CN closing their line in 1992. ==CFS Gypsumville==