Manitoba Business: Dominion Elevator Company

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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

Period	President / General Manager
1897-1900	Rodmond Palen Roblin (1853-1937)
1900-1908	Frederick “Fred” Phillipps (1857-1932)
1908-1917	William Wallace McMillan (1852-1928)
1917-1918	D. R. Mitchell
1918-1922	Harvey Kavaner (1886-1962)
1923-1928	Charles Edward “Charlie” Hayles (c1885-1952)

Vice-Presidents

Period	Vice-President
1897-1908	William Wallace McMillan (1852-1928)
1908-1928	?

Secretaries

Period	Secretary
1897-1900	Samuel Alexander McGaw (1848-1916)
1900-1928	?

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