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In August 1929, the Searle Grain Company was incorporated through the merger of several smaller companies: Home Grain Company, Saskatchewan Elevator Company, Searle Grain Company, and Liberty Grain Company. It operated 315 country elevators across the three prairie provinces with a cumulative storage capacity of 12 million bushels. It also controlled the Searle Terminal Grain Company that operated a grain terminal at Fort William [now Thunder Bay], Ontario.
In 1966, it merged with Federal Grain to form Canada’s largest privately-owned grain company.
Chairmen
Presidents
Vice-Presidents
Treasurers
Secretaries
Period |
Secretary |
1929-? |
D. N. Potter |
c1960 |
Morton Miller |
Country Elevators (Manitoba)
Location |
Rail |
Opened |
Closed |
Capacity
(bushels) |
Comments |
Alcrest |
CNR |
1946 |
1946 |
60,000 |
|
Angusville |
CNR |
1929 |
1966 |
110,000 |
|
Arborg |
CPR |
1929 |
1966 |
80,000 |
Sold to Federal Grain (1966) |
Benito |
CNR |
1929 |
1966 |
68,000 |
Sold to Federal Grain (1966) |
Birch River |
CNR |
1947 |
1966 |
116,000 |
|
Bowsman A |
CNR |
1942 |
1966 |
91,000 |
Bought from Canada West Grain (1942), sold to Federal Grain (1966) |
Bowsman B |
CNR |
1952 |
1966 |
25,000 |
Sold to Federal Grain (1966) |
Dauphin A |
CNR |
1929 |
1966 |
46,000 |
Built (1918), acquired from Liberty Grain (1929) |
Dauphin B |
CNR |
1951 |
1966 |
22,000 |
|
Deacon South (Mile 142.4) |
CNR |
1964 |
1967 |
100,000 |
|
East Selkirk |
CPR |
1938 |
1968 |
30,000 |
Sold to Federal Grain (1966) |
Ebor |
CPR |
1929 |
1965 |
26,000 |
|
Erickson |
CNR |
1929 |
1966 |
71,000 |
|
Garland |
CNR |
1934 |
1966 |
36,000 |
Sold to Federal Grain (1966) |
Libau |
CNR |
1947 |
1966 |
92,000 |
Sold to Federal Grain (1966) |
Lower Fort Garry |
CPR |
1940 |
1966 |
38,000 |
Sold to Federal Grain (1966) |
Minitonas A |
CNR |
1940 |
1966 |
115,000 |
Sold to Federal Grain (1966) |
Minitonas B |
CNR |
1951 |
1966 |
35,000 |
|
Riverton |
CPR |
1937 |
1966 |
27,000 |
Sold to Federal Grain (1966) |
St. Boniface |
CPR |
1941 |
1966 |
406,000 |
|
Searle |
CNR |
1946 |
1966 |
251,000 |
|
Swan River |
CNR |
1942 |
1966 |
136,000 |
Replaced by new elevator (1961), repainted as Federal Grain (1966), sold to Manitoba Pool (1972) |
The Pas |
CNR |
1948 |
1966 |
36,000 |
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See also:
The Searle Grain Company and Manitoba Handweaving, A Program of Imaginative Philanthropy by Janet A. Hoskins
Manitoba History, Number 6, Fall 1983
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Van Horne Farm / Searle Farm (RM of St. Clements)
Sources:
“Huge grain merger planned here,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 July 1966, page 1.
Grain: The Entrepreneurs by Charles W. Anderson, Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer Publishing, 1991.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 July 2022
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