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Inglis Area Heritage Committee
Country Crossroads, Local news

Inglis Area Heritage Committee

Celebrating 20th anniversary this 
year and launching a campaign

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The Inglis Area Heritage Committee is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Its mandate is to sustain, maintain and enhance the National Historic Site (as of 1996) of the only row of five restored wooden grain elevators in the world. Every year hundreds of visitors come to the site, open for public tours from June
Transportation, energy and agriculture
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Grain elevator group gives Emerson report thumbs down

After careful consideration, the WGEA concludes the report is flawed because it wrongly assumes rail competition exists in Canada

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The association representing the largest grain handlers in Western Canada is breaking its silence and giving the Emerson report on transportation a failing grade. The Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA) represents the six major grain firms and approximately 90 per cent of the West’s grain handle. WGEA says the fundamental issue appears to be that
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).
Country Crossroads

PHOTOS: This Old Elevator: May 2016

The Manitoba Historical Society wants to gather information about all the grain elevators in Manitoba

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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
Grain and other bulk commodity shippers are voicing concerns that Canadian railway capacity is no longer up to the job of moving product to export markets reliably.
Crops, News

Railway capacity worries exporters

Shippers say the railways have been whittling away at their own capacity for years 
and that’s affecting Canada’s national economic security

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As bulk shippers contemplate future growth in their shipments, their concern over whether Canada’s major railways are up to the job is also growing. Jim Everson, Soy Canada’s executive director, says agriculture and resource sector shippers are concerned CN and CP may not have the capacity to deal with larger volumes. All the resource-based industries
A small wooden grain elevator in the village of Underhill, in what is now the Municipality of Grassland, was built in 1908 by the Underhill Farmers’ Elevator Company. One of three elevators operating here by 1917, its ownership was transferred to the provincial government in 1911, then leased and in 1926 purchased outright by United Grain Growers. In 1966, it was sold into private ownership. Graffiti on its side said “Burn Me Please.” It appears someone obliged and the elevator was gone by 
the mid-1990s.
Country Crossroads, Local news

PHOTOS: This Old Elevator: April 2016

The Manitoba Historical Society wants to gather information about all the grain elevators in Manitoba

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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
Grain transport emergency provisions extended
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Grain transport emergency provisions extended

Provisions that were set to expire August 1 have been extended another full year

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The federal government is extending emergency grain-shipping provisions for another year. The provisions, which included weekly mandatory minimum grain-hauling levels, compensation to shippers for failing to provide service and extended interswitching that encourage competition, were set to expire August 1 with the end of the current crop year. Transport Minister Marc Garneau and Agriculture Minister
Record grain movement masks systemic ills
Cereals, News

Record grain movement masks systemic ills

Long-term issues haven't been addressed yet

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Grain shippers aren’t cheering too loudly about record grain movement in the 2014-15 crop year, and warn that costly grain backlogs like those in 2013-14 may recur. “We don’t want people to read about this and say: ‘problem solved,’” Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA), said in an interview. “It’s
An elevator in Brookdale, in the Municipality of North Cypress-Langford, was built in 1938 and last operated by the United Grain Growers before it closed in June 1978, when the adjacent rail line was removed. The building was sold to a local farmer, who used it into the 1990s. It was demolished around 2013.
Country Crossroads, Local news

PHOTOS: This Old Elevator: March 2016

Manitoba Historical Society wants to gather information about all the grain elevators in Manitoba

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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

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