Manitoba Business: Grain Growers’ Grain Company / United Grain Growers / Agricore United / Viterra
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The United Grain Growers was founded in 1917 from the merger of the Grain Growers’ Grain Company (incorporated in 1906) with the Alberta Farmers’ Cooperative Elevator Company. In 1959, it purchased grain elevators belonging to the Canadian Consolidated Grain Company.
On 1 November 2001, UGG merged with Agricore (created in 1998 by the merger of Manitoba Pool Elevators with the Alberta Wheat Pool) to form Agricore United. Six years later (2007), it was purchased by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. This publicly traded corporation, known as Viterra, was purchased by Glencore International in 2013.
A large collection of UGG and Agricore United corporate records can be found at the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
Presidents / Chairs
First Vice-Presidents / First Vice-Chairs
Period |
First Vice-President / First Vice-Chair |
1906-1917 |
John Alexander Kennedy (1854-1929) |
1917-1929 |
Cecil Rice-Jones (1881-1972) |
1929-1930 |
Richard Stanley Law (1884-1951) |
1930-1935 |
J. J. MacLellan (?-1955) |
1935-1942 |
Donald Gordon McKenzie (1887-1963) |
1942-1948 |
John Edward Brownlee (1883-1961) |
1948-1960 |
R. C. Brown |
1960-1964 |
S. S. Sears |
1964-1965 |
L. F. Snyder |
1965-1979 |
Allan Smith |
1979-1983 |
Ted M. Allen |
1983-1989 |
D. Roy Cusitar |
1989-1992 |
? |
1992-? |
Bryan D. Perkins (Alberta), Don Dobson (Manitoba), Roy W. Piper (Saskatchewan) |
?-1996 |
? |
1996-1998 |
Bryan D. Perkins (Alberta), Henry J. Penner (Manitoba), Roy W. Piper (Saskatchewan) |
1998-1999 |
Bryan D. Perkins (Alberta), Wayne W. Drul (Manitoba), Roy W. Piper (Saskatchewan) |
1999-2000 |
Kenneth M. Motiuk (Alberta), Wayne W. Drul (Manitoba), Roy W. Piper (Saskatchewan) |
2000-2001 |
Kenneth M. Motiuk (Alberta), Wayne W. Drul (Manitoba), Terry V. Youzwa (Saskatchewan) |
2001-2002 |
Melvin A. McNaughton |
2002-2007 |
Jon K. Grant |
Second Vice-Presidents
Period |
Second Vice-President |
1909-1917 |
Roderick McKenzie (1850-1925) |
1917-1929 |
John Alexander Kennedy (1854-1929) |
1929-1930 |
J. J. MacLellan (?-1955) |
1930-1935 |
John F. Reid |
1935-1947 |
John Morrison |
1947-1960 |
J. Harvey Lane |
1960-1964 |
R. M. Wilson |
1964-1970 |
R. C. Brown |
1964-1972 |
D. L. Trapp |
1970-1975 |
C. S. Banks |
1972-1973 |
Lorne Frederick John Hehn (1936-2015) |
1973-1974 |
D. L. Trapp |
1974-1977 |
Lorne Frederick John Hehn (1936-2015) |
1975-1981 |
W. J. Craddock |
1977-1978 |
W. G. “Bud” Morken |
1978-1981 |
Lorne Frederick John Hehn (1936-2015) |
1981-1983 |
D. Roy Cusitar |
1981-1988 |
W. G. “Bud” Morken |
1983-1989 |
Ted M. Allen |
1988-1989 |
Roy W. Piper |
General Managers / Chief Executive Officers
Treasurers / Chief Financial Officers
Period |
Treasurer |
1906-1907 |
J. Spencer |
1907-1911 |
David Keith Mills (c1880-1965) |
1911-1912 |
F. W. Moore |
1913-1916 |
W. Moffatt |
1917-1922 |
Francis Mollison Black (1870-1941) |
1922-1930 |
? |
1930-1951 |
J. B. McNair |
1951-1961 |
Louis Driscoll (1904-1984) |
1961-1974 |
John Wachal |
1974-1988 |
J. G. L. Bennett |
1988-1989 |
R. W. McGowan |
1989-1996 |
? |
1996-2004 |
Peter G. M. Cox |
2004-2007 |
? |
Corporate Secretaries
Period |
Corporate Secretary |
1906-1907 |
J. Spencer |
1907-1912 |
David Keith Mills (c1880-1965) |
1912-1916 |
W. Moffatt |
1917 |
R. L. Scott |
1917-1922 |
? |
1922 |
E. J. Fream |
1922-1930 |
Richard Stanley Law (1884-1951) |
1930-1948 |
Charles C. Jackson |
1948-1966 |
D. G. Miller |
1966-1981 |
J. A. White |
1981-1999 |
Michael “Mike” Sherman |
1999-2004 |
Thomas “Tom” Kirk |
2004-2007 |
? |
Directors (1906-1956)
Director |
Period |
Residence |
John Allan |
1906-1909 |
Cordova |
M. T. Allan |
1941-1947 |
? |
H. W. Allen |
1946-? |
? |
P. S. Austin |
1917-1923 |
? |
N. E. Baumunk |
1909-1912 |
Dundurn, Saskatchewan |
Edward E. Bayne (1872-1950) |
1930-1950 |
Winnipeg |
C. F. Brown |
1917-1918 |
? |
R. C. Brown |
1929-1948 |
? |
F. J. Collyer |
1917-1944 |
? |
F. W. Collyer |
1913-1917 |
Welwyn, Saskatchewan |
Robert Elsom |
1906-1909 |
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan |
E. J. Fream |
1910-1915 |
Calgary, Alberta |
F. M. Gates |
1913-1917 |
Fillmore, Saskatchewan |
F. W. Green |
1912-1913 |
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan |
C. E. Hope |
1922-1946 |
? |
W. B. Kirkpatrick |
1923-1929 |
? |
T. W. Knowles |
1909-1910 |
Emerson |
J. Harvey Lane |
1944-1947 |
? |
George Langley |
1908-1913 |
Maymont, Saskatchewan |
I. T. Lennox |
1906-1908 |
Melita |
S. Loptson |
1947-1955 |
? |
J. D. MacFarlane |
1947-? |
? |
J. J. MacLellan |
1917-1955 |
? |
J. A. Maharg |
1912-1913 |
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan |
M. C. McCuaig |
1906-1909 |
Oakland |
Donald Gordon McKenzie (1887-1963) |
1921-1935 |
? |
Roderick McKenzie (1850-1925) |
1908-1909, 1917-1921 |
Brandon |
W. C. Mills |
1938-1941 |
? |
William Moffat |
1912-1917 |
Souris |
John Morrison |
1912-1947 |
Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan |
R. A. Parker |
1917-1922 |
? |
Edward A. Partridge (1862-1931) |
1906-1912 |
Sintaluta, Saskatchewan |
David Railton |
1906-1912 |
Sintaluta, Saskatchewan |
John F. Reid |
1914-1917, 1917-1938 |
Orcadia, Saskatchewan |
J. W. Robson |
1913-1914 |
Pelly, Saskatchewan |
G. Roose |
1929-1938 |
? |
Alexander McInnes “Mac” Runciman (1914-2000) |
1955-1961 |
? |
S. S. Sears |
1922-1960 |
? |
R. Shannon |
1918-1952 |
? |
L. F. Snyder |
1955-1964 |
? |
John Spencer |
1906-1912 |
Emerson |
H. E. Staples |
1950-? |
? |
J. I. Stevens |
1938-? |
? |
D. L. Trapp |
1952-1964 |
? |
A. Von Meilecki |
1909-1910 |
Calgary, Alberta |
R. M. Wilson |
1948-1960 |
? |
H. C. Wingate |
1917-1922 |
? |
J. W. Wood |
1915-1917 |
Wainwright, Alberta |
UGG Country Elevators (Manitoba)
Location |
Local No. |
Rail |
Elevator
Built |
Annex Built |
Maximum
Capacity
(bushels) |
Comments |
Agnew |
167 |
CNR |
1928 |
- |
30,000 |
Destroyed by fire (13 June 1951) and not rebuilt |
Altamont 1 |
155 |
CNR |
1925 |
1941 |
74,500 |
Renovated (1964), closed (1993), demolished (1994) |
Altamont 2 |
155 |
CNR |
1905 |
- |
|
Bought from Ogilvie (1960), sold to private owner (?), demolished (1967) |
Angusville |
240 |
? |
1917 |
? |
? |
Destroyed by fire (13 April 1934) and rebuilt (1934), sold to Federal Grain (October 1968) |
Arnaud |
562 |
CPR |
? |
? |
91,000 |
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959), demolished (1990s) |
Ashville |
157 |
CNR |
1946 |
1948, 1952 |
81,000 |
Demolished (1995-1997) |
Baldur |
? |
|
? |
? |
? |
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959), traded to Manitoba Pool (1968) |
Barnsley |
159 |
CPR |
1916 |
- |
25,000 |
Traded to Manitoba Pool (1959) |
Beausejour |
|
CPR |
1921 |
|
|
|
Beausejour 1 |
564 |
CPR |
? |
? |
55,000 |
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Beausejour 2 |
564 |
CPR |
? |
? |
45,000 |
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Beaver |
208 |
CNR |
1935 |
1940, 1958 |
80,000 |
|
Bede |
? |
CPR |
1927 |
|
|
Closed (April 1953) and demolished |
Bellsite |
565 |
CNR |
1951 |
? |
36,200 |
Bought from Manitoba Pool (March 1960), closed (November 1975) |
Belmont |
566 |
CNR |
? |
? |
96,000 |
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959), renovated (1966), destroyed by fire (18 April 1973), rebuilt (1974), demolished (2000) |
Benito |
247 |
CNR |
1937 |
1948, 1956 |
112,000 |
Closed (1997), demolished (1997) |
Beulah |
? |
|
? |
|
|
Built by Western Canada Flour Mills (?), bought (1916), sold to Manitoba Pool (March 1948) |
Binscarth |
194 |
CPR |
1928 |
1957 |
90,000 |
Destroyed by fire (15 November 1978) |
Birch River 1 |
165 |
CNR |
1933 |
1940 |
? |
Demolished (2001) |
Birch River 2 |
165 |
CNR |
1950 |
- |
? |
|
Birdtail |
179 |
CNR |
1938 |
1948 |
55,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (March 1960) |
Boissevain |
985 |
CPR |
1967 |
|
140,000 |
Bought from McCabe Grain (1968) |
Bowsman 1 |
250 |
CNR |
1951 |
- |
143,000 |
Built (1951), demolished (1993) |
Bowsman 2 |
250 |
CNR |
1917 |
1939, 1948 |
? |
Built (1937), new annexes (1939, 1948), annexes removed (1972, 1980), demolished (1993) |
Brandon |
177 |
CPR |
1964 |
|
105,000 |
New elevator (January 1964) |
Brookdale |
181 |
CPR |
1938 |
1940, 1953 |
82,000 |
Closed (24 August 1978), demolished (2013) |
Brumlie |
? |
CNR |
? |
|
|
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Brunkild |
184 |
CNR |
1927 |
1940 |
112,000 |
|
Butler |
196 |
CNR |
1928 |
- |
30,000 |
Moved to Cromer (1964) |
Candor |
? |
? |
1951 |
- |
35,000 |
|
Carberry |
558 |
CPR |
1938 |
1948 |
56,000 |
Bought from Reliance Grain (1948), demolished (April 1983) |
Cardinal |
554 |
CNR |
1929 |
1940 |
55,000 |
Destroyed by fire (26 June 1960) and not rebuilt |
Carroll |
? |
CPR |
? |
|
|
Closed (?), annex moved to Newstead |
Cawdor |
? |
CNR |
1951 |
|
|
Moved to Westbourne (1964) |
Chillon |
? |
CPR |
1920 |
1951 |
60,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1960) |
Christie |
212 |
CNR |
1927 |
1957 |
60,000 |
Closed (31 July 1967), demolished (December 1972) |
Clanwilliam |
? |
CNR |
|
|
|
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Coatstone |
156 |
CNR |
1927 |
1940 |
55,000 |
Closed (31 July 1961), demolished (?) |
Cordova |
223 |
CNR |
1910 |
1940 |
52,000 |
Closed (31 July 1970), demolished (1972) |
Cracknell 1 |
224 |
CPR |
1922 |
1956 |
114,400 |
Closed (September 1973) and demolished |
Cracknell 2 |
224 |
CPR |
1922 |
|
|
Bought from Manitoba Pool (1966), closed (September 1973) and demolished |
Cranmer 1 |
158 |
CPR |
1928 |
1953 |
84,000 |
Closed (December 1975), demolished (?) |
Cranmer 2 |
158 |
CPR |
1927 |
- |
|
Built by Matheson-Lindsay Grain (1927), sold to Province Elevator (1928), bought (1948), closed (December 1975), demolished (?) |
Cromer 1 |
166 |
CNR |
1916-1917 |
|
|
Sold to Manitoba Pool (March 1948) |
Cromer 2 |
166 |
CNR |
1928 |
|
97,000 |
Moved from Butler (1964), traded to Manitoba Pool (1979) |
Crystal City |
? |
CPR |
1927 |
|
|
Sold to Paterson Grain (1941) |
Culross |
? |
CPR |
|
|
|
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959), sold to Paterson Grain (September 1969) |
Cypress River |
189 |
CPR |
Before 1917 |
|
? |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (July 1928) |
Cypress River |
189 |
CPR |
? |
|
|
Closed (2001) |
Dauphin 1 |
199 |
CNR |
1924 |
|
293,000 |
Renovated (1968, 1980) |
Dauphin 2 |
199 |
CNR |
1951 |
1955 |
|
Bought from Lake of the Woods (?), sold to Cargill (October 1980) |
Decker |
? |
CNR |
1915 |
? |
? |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1928) |
Deepdale |
? |
CNR |
|
|
|
|
Deerwood |
155 |
CNR |
? |
- |
28,000 |
Purchased from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959), closed (31 July 1970), sold to Seedex (May 1974), demolished (October 2003) |
Deloraine |
982 |
CPR |
1960 |
1976 |
105,000 |
New elevator (1960), new annex (1976), demolished (2010) |
Dominion City |
211 |
CPR |
1932 |
1950, 1957 |
110,000 |
Traded from Manitoba Pool (1990) |
Dropmore 1 |
? |
CNR |
? |
|
|
Bought from British America (1928), sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Dropmore 2 |
? |
CNR |
1916 |
|
|
Burned (2 December 1927), rebuilt (1928), sold to Manitoba Pool (1928) |
Dunrea |
? |
CNR |
|
|
|
Bought from Paterson Grain (1948) |
Durban |
? |
? |
1913 |
|
|
Demolished (June 1929) |
Dutton Siding 1 |
226 |
CNR |
1920 |
1940 |
55,000 |
Closed (30 October 1976) and dismantled |
Dutton Siding 2 |
226 |
CNR |
1920 |
? |
? |
Bought from Manitoba Pool (29 November 1971), closed (December 1976) and dismantled |
Dutton Siding 3 |
226 |
CNR |
? |
? |
? |
Traded from Pioneer Grain (1995), sold to Parrish & Heimbecker (?) |
Eden |
? |
CNR |
1927 |
1940, 1941 |
76,000 |
|
Elgin |
169 |
CNR |
? |
? |
78,000 |
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959), renovated (1965), annex moved from Paterson to UGG site (1966) |
Elie |
572 |
CNR |
? |
1959 |
99,000 |
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Elkhorn |
? |
CPR |
? |
|
? |
Bought from Manitoba Government (1924), sold to Manitoba Pool (1928) |
Elma |
? |
CNR |
? |
? |
? |
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959), closed (March 1964) and moved to Whitemouth where it was converted into an annex |
Elva |
161 |
CPR |
1916 |
|
? |
|
Endcliffe |
230 |
CNR |
1916 |
- |
30,000 |
Demolished (?) |
Fairfax |
? |
CNR |
? |
|
85,000 |
|
Fairview |
496 |
CNR |
1935 |
1940, 1953 |
85,000 |
Closed (25 April 1975) and dismantled later that year, replaced by Petrel |
Fallison |
? |
CPR |
1918 |
|
|
Sold to Wiley Low (1924) |
Fannystelle 1 |
572 |
CPR |
? |
? |
|
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959), demolished (1981) |
Fannystelle 2 |
572 |
CPR |
? |
1970-1971 |
|
Bought from Paterson Grain (1968), renovated and annex moved from #1 (1970-1971) |
Fort Whyte (Winnipeg) |
989 |
CPR |
? |
|
185,000 |
Destroyed by fire (11 March 2000) |
Foxwarren 1 |
195 |
CPR |
1923 |
1952 |
144,000 |
Demolished (1963) and new elevator built (August 1963) |
Foxwarren 2 |
195 |
CPR |
1902 |
- |
|
Demolished (1963) |
Gilbert Plains |
207 |
CNR |
1946 |
1952, 1961 |
196,000 |
|
Gladstone |
204 |
CPR |
1918 |
1957 |
165,000 |
Demolished (?) |
Grandview 1 |
206 |
CNR |
1953 |
- |
259,000 |
Opened (December 1953), closed (2000), demolished (2000) |
Grandview 2 |
206 |
CNR |
1917 |
1950 |
|
Burned (December 1959) |
Graysville |
? |
CNR |
1920 |
1952 |
58,300 |
Demolished (?) |
Greenway |
190 |
CNR |
1927 |
1940 |
27,000 |
Closed and demolished (1971) |
Griswold 1 |
228 |
CPR |
1940 |
1947 |
153,000 |
Closed (1996), demolished (?) |
Griswold 2 |
228 |
CPR |
? |
- |
35,000 |
Bought from Ogilvie Milling via Manitoba Pool (1960), closed (1996), demolished (?) |
Gunton |
219 |
CPR |
1951 |
- |
31,000 |
Destroyed by fire (24 July 1951) and rebuilt (September 1951), closed (July 1984) |
Hallboro |
? |
CNR |
? |
|
|
Demolished (1938) |
Hargrave 1 |
229 |
CPR |
1926 |
1953 |
59,000 |
Renovated (1967) |
Hargrave 2 |
229 |
CPR |
1928 |
|
|
Traded from Manitoba Pool (1979), demolished (July 2014) |
Hartney 1 |
169 |
CPR |
1917 |
1940 |
155,000 |
Renovated (1929), demolished (1963), new elevator (November 1963) |
Hartney 2 |
169 |
CNR |
? |
|
? |
Demolished (1927) |
Hilton |
249 |
CNR |
1927 |
- |
|
Closed (31 July 1966), traded to Manitoba Pool and moved to Ninette (circa 1976) |
Homewood 1 |
252 |
CNR |
1927 |
1941 |
67,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1974) |
Homewood 2 |
252 |
CNR |
1901 |
- |
? |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1974) |
Hubbell |
559 |
CNR |
1938 |
1953 |
58,000 |
Purchased from Canada West Grain (July 1948), closed (31 July 1971), demolished (?) |
Indian Springs |
253 |
CNR |
1951 |
1940 |
65,000 |
Closed (December 1975) |
Inglis |
254 |
CPR |
1925 |
1949, 1952 |
79,100 |
|
Isabella |
171 |
CNR |
1913 |
1940 |
? |
Traded to Manitoba Pool (1962), demolished (1978) |
Jordan |
? |
CNR |
? |
|
? |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1928) |
Kane |
? |
CNR |
1920 |
|
|
New annexes (1952, 1957), bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Kelloe 1 |
233 |
CPR |
1902 |
- |
|
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1960) |
Kelloe 2 |
233 |
CPR |
1925 |
- |
|
Bought from Paterson Grain (1938) |
Kelwood 1 |
255 |
CNR |
1927 |
1940 |
53,000 |
Closed (14 December 1979) and sold to community |
Kelwood 2 |
255 |
CNR |
1929 |
? |
? |
Traded from Manitoba Pool (1971), closed (14 December 1979) and sold to community |
Kenton |
180 |
CPR |
1920 |
|
? |
Sold to Lake of the Woods (31 October 1957) |
Kenville |
? |
? |
1935 |
|
|
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1949) |
Killarney 1 |
152 |
CPR |
1953 |
1940 |
243,000 |
|
Killarney 2 |
152 |
CPR |
1916 |
1940 |
|
|
Kirkella |
? |
CPR |
|
|
|
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Lac du Bonnet 1 |
976 |
CPR |
? |
|
129,000 |
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Lac du Bonnet 2 |
976 |
CPR |
|
|
|
Bought from Inter-Ocean Grain (1965) |
Lavinia |
172 |
CNR |
? |
1940 |
|
Traded to Manitoba Pool (August 1962) |
Leighton |
? |
CPR |
? |
|
30,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1928) |
Lenore |
? |
CPR |
? |
|
|
Demolished (1928) |
Letellier |
212 |
CNR |
1926 |
1952, 1957 |
112,000 |
|
Liege |
256 |
CNR |
1927 |
1940 |
|
Bought from Province Elevator (1932), closed (31 July 1961) |
Linklater |
? |
CPR |
1927 |
|
30,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (July 1928) |
Lowe Farm |
977 |
CNR |
? |
|
97,000 |
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Manitou |
225 |
CPR |
? |
1978 |
52,000 |
Bought from McCabe Grain (March 1968), new elevator built (7 December 1973) |
Manson |
170 |
CPR |
1911 |
- |
|
|
Margaret |
? |
CNR |
1926 |
1940, 1956 |
67,000 |
Traded to Manitoba Pool (1971) |
Mariapolis |
251 |
CNR |
1948 |
- |
53,000 |
Leased (1912) then leased (1926) from Manitoba government, demolished (1937) and rebuilt, demolished (1986) and rebuilt |
1926 |
1940 |
|
|
Mather |
151 |
CPR |
1917 |
1953 |
59,000 |
Traded to Manitoba Pool (1971) |
McAuley |
258 |
CPR |
1926 |
- |
|
|
McCreary |
201 |
CNR |
1917 |
1940 |
80,000 |
|
McGregor |
? |
CPR |
? |
|
|
Bought from Manitoba government (1912), demolished (August 1926) |
Medora |
163 |
CPR |
1926 |
1940, 1951 |
131,000 |
|
Melita 1 |
162 |
CPR |
1926 |
1906, 1940 |
|
|
Melita 2 |
162 |
CPR |
1956 |
1965 |
119,000 |
Renovated (1979) |
Miami |
244 |
CNR |
1924 |
|
|
Purchased from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959), sold to Federal Grain (March 1970) |
Minitonas |
? |
CNR |
? |
|
30,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1926) |
Minnedosa |
984 |
CPR |
1966 |
1967 |
169,000 |
|
Minto |
? |
CNR |
? |
|
83,000 |
|
Moline |
174 |
CNR |
1913 |
|
|
Traded to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Morden |
988 |
CPR |
? |
|
80,000 |
|
Myrtle |
214 |
CNR |
1928 |
1934, 1955 |
102,000 |
Demolished (1984) |
Neelin |
259 |
CNR |
1928 |
1955 |
81,000 |
|
Neepawa |
238 |
CPR |
1938 |
1940, 1958, 1978 |
152,000 |
Renovated (1971) |
Nesbitt |
191 |
CPR |
1926 |
1950, 1953 |
79,000 |
|
Newdale |
236 |
CPR |
1925 |
1925, 1941 |
111,000 |
|
Newstead |
990 |
CPR |
1936 |
|
84,000 |
Bought from McCabe Grain (1968), renovated and annex moved from Carroll (?), closed (30 June 1982) |
Newton Siding |
541 |
CNR |
1935 |
1951 |
52,000 |
Closed (31 July 1972) |
Ninga |
154 |
CPR |
1929 |
1955 |
82,000 |
Traded to Manitoba Pool (1979) |
Norman (Oakner) |
444 |
CNR |
October 1984 |
- |
- |
|
Novra |
561 |
CNR |
1952 |
- |
31,000 |
Closed (3 April 1980) |
Oak River 1 |
979 |
CPR |
1921 |
|
|
New annex (1949), bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Oak River 2 |
979 |
CPR |
1958 |
|
|
New annex (1951), bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Oak River 3 |
979 |
CPR |
1960 |
|
|
Traded from Manitoba Pool (1974) |
Oakburn |
542 |
CNR |
1933 |
1949, 1967 |
138,000 |
|
Oakville |
185 |
CNR |
1956 |
1917, 1961 |
193,000 |
|
Ochre River |
? |
CNR |
1916 |
|
|
Destroyed by fire (15 April 1921) and not rebuilt |
Otterburne |
543 |
CPR |
1935 |
- |
26,000 |
Bought from local farmer cooperative (1920) and rebuilt (June 1935), closed (July 1971) and demolished (April 1972) |
Penrith |
? |
CPR |
? |
|
|
Demolished (1957) |
Petrel |
210 |
CNR |
1975 |
- |
150,000 |
Replaced elevators at Fairview and Wellwood |
Pipestone 1 |
167 |
CPR |
1927 |
1952 |
55,000 |
Renovated (1967-1968), demolished (19 March 1992) |
Pipestone 2 |
167 |
CPR |
? |
|
|
Traded from Manitoba Pool (April 1979), demolished (19 March 1992) |
Plum Coulee 1 |
992 |
CPR |
? |
? |
110,000 |
Bought from McCabe Grain (September 1968), annexes demolished (1979, 1980) |
Plum Coulee 2 |
992 |
CPR |
? |
1977 |
206,000 |
Bought from Manitoba Pool (1972) |
Plumas 1 |
203 |
CNR |
1949 |
1952 |
144,000 |
Renovated (1976), annex from Tenby (1977) |
Plumas 2 |
203 |
CNR |
1926 |
- |
|
Destroyed by fire (28 December 1974) |
Plumas 3 |
203 |
CNR |
1898 |
- |
|
Bought from Western Canada Flour Mills (June 1940) |
Portage la Prairie 1 |
232 |
CPR |
1962 |
|
120,000 |
|
Portage la Prairie 2 |
232 |
CNR |
? |
|
138,800 |
Bought from McCabe Grain (March 1968) |
Rackham |
? |
CNR |
|
|
|
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Rathwell 1 |
545 |
CPR |
1927 |
1940, 1941, 1958 |
128,300 |
Destroyed by fire (22 August 1941), rebuilt (October 1941) |
Rathwell 2 |
545 |
CPR |
|
|
|
Bought from Paterson Grain (September 1969) |
Renwer |
546 |
CNR |
1934 |
1950 |
67,000 |
Closed (30 April 1977) |
Reston |
166 |
CPR |
1959 |
1953 |
? |
New elevator (10 August 1959) replaced an earlier one, demolished (c2001) |
Rhodes |
? |
CPR |
? |
|
30,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1928) |
Riding Mountain |
547 |
CNR |
1937 |
1940 |
50,000 |
Destroyed by fire (31 October 1936) and rebuilt, closed (31 July 1972) and demolished |
Rignold |
232 |
CNR |
1938 |
1955 |
82,000 |
|
Rivers |
176 |
CNR |
1957 |
1980 |
74,000 |
New elevator replaced Wheatland (1957), traded to Cargill (1993) |
Roland 1 |
549 |
CNR |
1938 |
1941 |
112,000 |
Demolished (July 2001) |
Roland 2 |
549 |
CNR |
1895 |
- |
|
|
Rorketon |
550 |
CNR |
1924 |
1951 |
52,000 |
Closed (August 1980) |
Rosebank 1 |
244 |
CNR |
1927 |
1953 |
106,000 |
Renovated (1970) |
Rosebank 2 |
244 |
CNR |
1920 |
1953 |
? |
Purchased from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959), demolished (1980) |
Rossendale |
551 |
CNR |
1913 |
1940, 1953 |
52,000 |
Closed (1975), sold for demolition (1977), annex moved to Baker Hutterite Colony (1978) |
Rufford |
175 |
CNR |
1910 |
1940 |
|
Closed (30 April 1968), demolished (April 1971) |
Russell |
240 |
CPR |
1925 |
1953 |
112,000 |
New elevator built and old elevator became annex (1963) |
St. Claude 1 |
552 |
CPR |
1927 |
1952 |
109,000 |
|
St. Claude 2 |
552 |
CPR |
1914 |
|
|
Bought from Ogilvie (1959), traded from Manitoba Pool (1960) |
Ste. Anne |
986 |
CNR |
? |
1972 |
55,000 |
Bought from McCabe Grain (March 1968) |
Ste. Rose 1 |
200 |
CNR |
1946 |
1955 |
91,000 |
Destroyed by fire (22 September 1962) |
Ste. Rose 2 |
200 |
CNR |
1912 |
1956 |
|
|
Shoal Lake |
234 |
CPR |
1928 |
1953 |
120,100 |
|
Shoal Lake |
234 |
CPR |
1983 |
|
|
Opened (3 May 1983) |
Shoal Lake |
- |
CPR |
2000 |
- |
? |
Opened (27 July 2000) |
Shortdale |
553 |
CNR |
1933 |
1940, 1955 |
82,000 |
|
Sifton |
209 |
CNR |
1917 |
1950 |
90,000 |
Destroyed by fire (26 June 1926), bought North Star elevator to replace (1926), new elevator and old elevator converted to annex (1957), old elevator-annex demolished (1971) |
Silverton 1 |
241 |
CNR |
1917 |
|
|
Demolished (1963) |
Silverton 2 |
241 |
CNR |
1940 |
1963 |
99,000 |
Traded from National Grain (1946) for Solsgirth, renovated with new annex (1963), traded to Manitoba Pool (1974) |
Sinclair |
222 |
CPR |
1927 |
- |
|
Traded to Manitoba Pool (1959) |
Solsgirth |
197 |
? |
1924 |
- |
|
Traded to National Grain (April 1946) for Silverton |
Somerset 1 |
554 |
CNR |
1928 |
1940 |
50,000 |
Renovated with new annex (1977) |
Somerset 2 |
554 |
CNR |
? |
|
|
Bought from Paterson Grain (April 1981) |
Souris 1 |
227 |
CPR |
? |
|
320,000 |
Bought from McCabe Grain (March 1968) |
Souris 2 |
227 |
CPR |
1961 |
|
|
Bought from McCabe Grain (March 1968) |
Sperling |
184 |
CNR |
? |
1959 |
128,000 |
Purchased from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959), renovated (1967), demolished (?) |
Strathclair 1 |
235 |
CPR |
1925 |
1957 |
119,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1974) |
Strathclair 2 |
235 |
CPR |
? |
|
|
Bought from Pioneer Grain (1969), sold to Manitoba Pool (1974) |
Swan Lake 1 |
216 |
CNR |
1925 |
1940, 1955 |
102,000 |
|
Swan Lake 2 |
216 |
CNR |
? |
|
|
Traded from Manitoba Pool (1971) |
Swan Lake 3 |
216 |
CNR |
? |
|
|
Bought from Manitoba Pool (1974), destroyed by fire (1988) |
Tenby |
202 |
CNR |
1917 |
1954 |
67,000 |
Closed (October 1977), annex moved to Plumas, sold to Cargill (1978) |
Terence |
? |
CNR |
1917 |
|
|
Closed (July 1954) and demolished |
Treherne |
188 |
CPR |
1927 |
1959 |
113,000 |
Traded to Manitoba Pool (1990) |
Underhill |
556 |
CNR |
1903 |
- |
|
|
Valley River |
? |
CNR |
1912 |
|
|
Sold to British America (July 1940) |
Valpoy |
? |
CNR |
c1924 |
|
|
|
Virden |
182 |
CPR |
1916 |
- |
93,000 |
Moved to new town site and renovated (1964) |
Vista 1 |
243 |
CNR |
1934 |
1949 |
105,700 |
|
Vista 2 |
243 |
CNR |
1908 |
|
|
Bought from Northern Elevator (1940), demolished (May 1947) |
Vista 2 |
243 |
CNR |
? |
1963, 1963 |
|
Bought from Manitoba Pool (October 1968) |
Wassewa |
? |
CNR |
|
|
|
Purchased from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959) |
Wellwood |
246 |
CPR |
1919 |
1940, 1955 |
90,000 |
Closed (25 April 1975) and dismantled, replaced by Petrel |
Westbourne 1 |
557 |
CPR |
1938 |
1940 |
78,000 |
|
Westbourne 2 |
557 |
CPR |
1951 |
|
|
Moved from Cawdor (1964), demolished (1990s) |
Wheatland |
176 |
? |
1905 |
? |
? |
Bought (1924), destroyed by fire (September 1957) and rebuilt at Rivers |
Whitemouth |
981 |
CPR |
? |
|
59,000 |
Bought from Canadian Consolidated Grain (1959), annex brought from Elma (1964), facility closed (July 1979) |
Winnipeg (Fort Rouge) |
? |
CNR |
1961 |
|
|
Purchased from Red River Grain (1961), demolished (1962) |
Winnipeg (Red River) |
231 |
CNR |
1961 |
|
115,000 |
Purchased from Red River Grain (1961) |
Woodnorth |
165 |
CNR |
? |
|
? |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1928) |
Sources:
The First Fifty Years: A History of United Grain Growers Limited by R. D. Colquette, Winnipeg: The Public Press Limited, 1957.
Annual Reports, United Grain Growers Limited, MSS 76, Boxes 30-31, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
“UGG appointment,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 September 1979, page 57.
“UGG appointment,” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 September 1983, page 47.
“UGG appointment,” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 January 1991, page 13.
Pipestone elevator demolition, Reston Recorder, 1 April 1992.
“Allen re-elected UGG head,” Russell Banner, 17 November 1992, page 11.
“Explosive blaze guts landmark elevator,” Winnipeg Free Press, 12 March 2000, page A1.
“UGG ribbon set for snipping,” Brandon Sun, 22 July 2000, page 5.
“Agricore shuts down elevators temporarily,” Brandon Sun, 3 January 2001, page 1.
“Merger: Agricore and UGG officially united,” Swan Valley Star and Times, 6 November 2001, page 7.
United Grain Growers Limited Fonds, MSS 76, Box 54, File 16, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
We thank Eddie Maendel for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 18 July 2020
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