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Incorporated on 21 July 1897, the first directors of this Winnipeg-based grain firm were Daniel Hunter McMillan, William Wallace McMillan, Rodmond Palen Roblin, Robert Muir, Frederick Phillipps, Samuel Alexander McGaw, and Hugh Savigny Paterson. It built over 50 country grain elevators, mostly in Manitoba, but sold 19 of them to the Manitoba Elevator Commission in 1910. The rest of its assets were transferred to the Canadian Consolidated Grain Company in 1928 when it merged with several other companies.
Presidents / General Managers
Vice-Presidents
Secretaries
Country Elevators
Location |
No. |
Rail |
Opened |
Closed |
Capacity
(bushels) |
Comments |
Altamont |
|
|
1902 |
|
24,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Arnaud |
|
|
1897 |
|
22,000 |
|
Austin |
|
|
1897 |
|
25,000 |
|
Bagot |
|
|
1897 |
|
32,000 |
|
Baldur |
|
|
1897 |
|
30,000 |
|
Basswood |
|
CPR |
1898 |
1929 |
30,000 |
Sold to Forsythe Elevator (1929) |
Beausejour |
|
|
1921 |
|
30,000 |
Merged with Canadian Consolidated (1928) |
Belmont |
|
|
1898 |
|
25,000 |
|
Binscarth |
|
|
1898 |
|
27,000 |
|
Brandon |
|
|
1897 |
|
40,000 |
|
Broomhill |
|
|
1926 |
|
30,000 |
|
Carman |
35 |
|
1897 |
|
35,000 |
|
Dand |
|
|
1918 |
|
30,000 |
|
Darlingford |
|
|
1897 |
|
25,000 |
|
Dauphin |
|
|
1896 |
|
25,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Deloraine |
|
|
1897 |
|
25,000 |
|
Edwin |
|
|
1921 |
|
30,000 |
|
Elkhorn |
|
|
1897 |
|
10,000 |
|
Elva |
|
|
1895 |
|
25,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Emerson |
|
|
1897 |
|
30,000 |
|
Foxwarren |
|
|
1898 |
|
30,000 |
|
Glenora |
|
|
? |
|
28,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Greenway |
|
|
1901 |
|
15,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Gretna |
|
|
1897 |
|
25,000 |
|
Hamiota |
|
|
1898 |
|
25,000 |
|
Harrowby |
|
|
1923 |
|
35,000 |
|
Hartney |
|
|
1900 |
|
25,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Hilton |
|
|
1901 |
|
30,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Homewood |
|
|
1901 |
|
25,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Killarney |
|
|
1897 |
|
25,000 |
|
Letellier |
|
|
1907 |
|
24,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Makinak |
|
|
1898 |
|
10,000 |
|
Mariapolis |
|
|
1899 |
|
6,000 |
|
Melbourne |
|
|
1898 |
|
20,000 |
|
Miami |
|
|
1897 |
|
23,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Minnedosa |
|
|
1898 |
|
10,000 |
|
Morden |
|
|
1897 |
|
25,000 |
|
Napinka |
|
|
1904 |
|
28,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Neepawa |
|
|
1897 |
|
25,000 |
|
Nesbitt |
|
|
1895 |
|
28,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Ninga |
|
|
? |
|
24,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Niverville |
|
|
1901 |
|
20,000 |
|
Oakburn |
|
|
1900 |
|
30,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Oak Lake |
|
|
1897 |
|
25,000 |
|
Oak River |
|
|
1898 |
|
30,000 |
|
Oakville |
|
|
1897 |
|
20,000 |
|
Ochre River |
|
|
1897 |
|
4,000 |
|
Ogilvie |
|
|
1898 |
|
13,000 |
|
Pierson |
|
|
1898 |
|
20,000 |
|
Plum Coulee |
|
|
1897 |
|
25,000 |
|
Poplar Point |
|
|
1898 |
|
9,000 |
|
Portage la Prairie |
|
|
1897 |
|
30,000 |
|
Roland |
|
|
1897 |
|
25,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Rosebank |
|
|
1897 |
|
30,000 |
|
Rounthwaite |
|
|
1898 |
|
22,000 |
|
St. Jean Baptiste |
|
|
1899 |
|
30,000 |
|
Shoal Lake |
|
|
1887 |
|
22,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Sidney |
|
|
1898 |
|
20,000 |
|
Silver Plains |
|
|
1899 |
|
15,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Solsgirth |
|
|
1924 |
|
30,000 |
|
Sperling |
|
|
1912 |
|
25,000 |
|
Steinbach |
|
|
1899 |
|
20,000 |
|
Stockton |
|
|
1895 |
|
22,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Stonewall |
|
|
1897 |
|
6,000 |
|
Strathclair |
|
|
1898 |
|
30,000 |
|
Treherne |
|
|
1895 |
|
24,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910) |
Virden |
|
|
1897 |
|
40,000 |
|
Wassewa |
|
|
1918 |
|
30,000 |
|
Wawanesa |
|
|
1897 |
|
30,000 |
|
Westbourne |
|
|
1898 |
|
8,000 |
|
Whitewater |
|
|
1897 |
|
15,000 |
|
Winkler |
|
|
1897 |
|
26,000 |
|
Sources:
Review of negotiations that led to government ownership and operation of elevators in Manitoba and cause of failure by the Executive Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association, c1910.
“City briefs,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 March 1918, page 6.
“Sir Rodmond Roblin defendant in court,” Manitoba Free Press, 30 April 1924, page 11.
“Notice of application to surrender charter,” Winnipeg Tribune, 23 September 1929, page 15.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 September 2020
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