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Manitoba Business: Western Elevator Company / Western Grain Company
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This company was organized around 1900 by Alexander Reid and Thomas Baker, and formally incorporated in Manitoba on 6 July 1901. Among its directors were Frank Morton Morse, William George MacMahon, and John Henry Munson.
In 1929, it was merged with the State Elevator Company, Central Grain Company, Spencer Grain Company, Beaver Elevator Company, and Western Terminal Elevator Company to form the Western Grain Company, with founding Directors of Chessman George Spencer, D. C. MacLachlan, C. I. Hall, Donald Morrison, Archibald Cumberland Reid, James Stewart, Kenneth Bowring Stoddart, Frank B. Stoddart, and Alan Holmes Williamson.
In 1951, the company and its country elevators were acquired by Pioneer Grain.
Presidents
Period
President
1901-1902
Thomas Bray Baker (1856-1902)
1902-1910
Alexander Reid (1860-1939)
1910-1929
?
1929-?
Chessman George Spencer (1867-1940)
Vice-Presidents
Period
Vice-President
1929-1931
D. C. MacLachlan
General Managers
Period
General Manager
1929-1931
D. C. MacLachlan
1931-
Archibald Cumberland Reid (1889-1974)
Country Elevators (Manitoba)
Location
No.
Rail
Opened
Closed
Capacity
(bushels)Comments
Broomhill
Bef 1912
1925
30,000
Carey
1903
1951
25,000
Sold to Pioneer Grain (1951)
Cypress River
Bef 1912
1913
30,000
Elva
Bef 1901
?
25,000
Glenboro
Bef 1912
1944
22,000
Glossop
1929
1951
31,000
Built by Spencer Grain (1920), sold to Pioneer Grain (1951)
Hartney
Bef 1901
?
30,000
Langruth
1929
1931
28,000
Built by McMillan Grain (1918), sold to Spencer Grain (1920), sold to Federal Grain (1932)
Linklater
1933
1947
20,000
Morris
Bef 1912
1921
20,000
Rathwell
Bef 1901
?
25,000
Ste. Anne
Bef 1912
1930
10,000
Sinclair
27
?
?
?
?
Stockton
Bef 1901
?
25,000
Strathclair
1929
1951
26,000
Built by Spencer Grain (1920), sold to Pioneer Grain (1951)
Tilston
c1912
?
30,000
Treesbank
Bef 1901
?
30,000
Underhill
Bef 1901
?
30,000
Wellwood
Bef 1901
?
30,000
Sources:
“Western Grain Company puts issue on market,” Winnipeg Tribune, 9 January 1929, page 16.
“Western Grain names Reid as Gen’l Manager,” Winnipeg Tribune, 9 September 1931, page 12.
John Everitt Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 December 2022
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