
Fannystelle
A small, abandoned grain elevator in Fannystelle, along Highway No. 2 in the Rural Municipality of Grey, was once operated by local lumber, coal, and grain merchant Richard H. Stevens (1896-1978).
Photo: Alan Mason (October 2013)
Deloraine-Winchester
A grain elevator on the CP Boissevain Subdivision in the Municipality of Deloraine-Winchester was formerly operated by the Regent Cooperative Elevator Association as part of the Manitoba Pool network. Later closed, and used for private grain storage, it was destroyed by fire in the spring of 2014.
Photo: Historic Resources Branch (August 1992)
Springfield
A transfer elevator in the RM of Springfield was constructed in 1912 for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Its 108 concrete silos could store up to one million bushels of grain arriving from across the prairies. Over a period of 12 hours on 18 October 1913, the annex sank into the ground until it listed at an angle of 30 degrees. A new foundation to bedrock was constructed under it, and the annex was re-straightened. The elevator was purchased in 1970 by Parrish & Heimbecker.
Photo: Nathan Kramer (November 2015)
Sidney
The last grain elevator in Sidney was built by Reliance Grain in 1942. Having a capacity of 36,700 bushels, it was sold to Manitoba Pool in 1948. Traded to Cargill Grain in 1975, substantial renovations were made at that time. The elevator was demolished in 1999.
Photo: Sandra Rempel (1999)
In the 1950s, there were over 700 grain elevators in Manitoba. Today, there are fewer than 200. You can help to preserve the legacy of these disappearing “Prairie sentinels.”
The Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is gathering information about all elevators that ever stood in Manitoba, regardless of their present status. Collaborating with the Manitoba Co-operator it is supplying these images of a grain elevator each week in hopes readers will be able to tell the society more about it, or any other elevator they know of.
MHS Gordon Goldsborough webmaster and Journal editor has developed a website to post your replies to a series of questions about elevators. The MHS is interested in all grain elevators that have served the farm community.
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Your contributions will help gather historical information such as present status of elevators, names of companies, owners and agents, rail lines, year elevators were built — and dates when they were torn down (if applicable).
There is room on the website to post personal recollections and stories related to grain elevators. The MHS presently also has only a partial list of all elevators that have been demolished. You can help by updating that list if you know of one not included on that list.
Your contributions are greatly appreciated and will help the MHS develop a comprehensive, searchable database to preserve the farm community’s collective knowledge of what was once a vast network of grain elevators across Manitoba.
Please contribute to This Old Grain Elevator website here. You will receive a response, by email or phone call, confirming that your submission was received.