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This Winnipeg-based company was established in 1897 as Bready, Love and Tryon by partners Thomas Turnnel Wadsworth Bready, John Love, and Charles Robert Tryon. In early 1899, it was incorporated as the Winnipeg Elevator Company with Bready, Love, and Tryon as shareholders, along with James Carruthers and James Walter Band of Toronto. In September 1907, Love and Tryon sold their interests in the company to the principals of the Canadian Elevator Company, which had been formed in 1902: E. C. Warner, George Frank Piper, Frederick Eugene Kenaston, Walter D. Douglas, and William Henry McWilliams, most of whom were based at Minneapolis, Minnesota. McWilliams was installed as President of the firm and henceforth its country elevators were identified as belonging to the Canadian Elevator Company.
In 1928, it merged with several other companies to form the Canadian Consolidated Grain Company.
Period
President
1899-1903
Thomas Turnnel Wadsworth Bready (1854-1903)
1903-1907
John Love (1856-1939)
Period
Vice-President
1899-1903
John Love (1856-1939)
1903-1907
?
Period
Secretary-Treasurer
1899-1907
Robert James Howden (1868-1943)
Period
President
1902-?
Walter D. Douglas
?-1906
?
1906-1928
William Henry “Bill” McWilliams (1860-1942)
Period
Vice-President
1902-1906
William Henry “Bill” McWilliams (1860-1942)
1906-?
Clarence Brett Piper (1882-1955)
Period
Secretary-Treasurer
1902-?
George Frank Piper (1856-1917)
?-1907
?
1907-1910
Robert James Howden (1868-1943)
Location
No.
Rail
Opened
Closed
Capacity
(bushels)Comments
Argue
c1901
1919
18,000
Ashdown
1898
1919
25,000
Baldur
1898
-
30,000
Merged into Canadian Consolidated Grain (1928)
Beaver
c1901
-
25,000
Beresford
1897
c1913
25,000
Bef 1909
-
35,000
Moved from Oak River (1909), merged into Canadian Consolidated Grain (1928)
Carberry
1897
c1913
25,000
Carman
1898
-
25,000
Carroll
c1900
1910
27,000
Sold to Elevator Commission (September 1910)
Clearwater
1897
c1901
25,000
Crandall
1899
c1913
30,000
Elgin
1899
-
20,000
Merged into Canadian Consolidated Grain (1928)
Fairfax
1899
-
20,000
Merged into Canadian Consolidated Grain (1928)
Fannystelle
53
c1901
-
25,000
Merged into Canadian Consolidated Grain (1928)
Hilton
1898
c1901
25,000
Holmfield
c1901
c1901
25,000
Killarney
1898
1912
25,000
Kirkella
1898
1919
25,000
Letellier
1898
c1901
25,000
Lowe Farm
1898
-
16,000
Merged into Canadian Consolidated Grain (1928)
Macdonald
c1901
c1901
35,000
Margaret
1899
c1901
20,000
Miami
1898
c1901
30,000
Miniota
47
1899
c1901
28,000
Morden
1898
1899
50,000
Myrtle
1898
c1901
16,000
Ninette
1899
1923
20,000
Ninga
76
?
?
?
?
Oak Lake
20
1897
c1913
25,000
Oak River
1897
c1913
25,000
Oakland
1899
c1913
20,000
Oakville
25
1898
c1901
16,000
Pierson
82
c1904
?
30,000
Plum Coulee
1897
c1901
25,000
Purves
1899
-
25,000
Merged into Canadian Consolidated Grain (1928)
Ridgeville
?
1901
?
25,000
Bought from George Pocock (?), sold to Manitoba Government (?), sold to Paterson Grain (1919)
Roland
1898
c1901
25,000
1898
-
30,000
Merged into Canadian Consolidated Grain (1928)
Ste. Agathe
1898
c1913
16,000
Sinclair
27
Swan Lake
c1901
c1901
25,000
Wellwood
c1901
c1901
25,000
Winkler
1898
c1899
25,000
Winnipeg
1
?
?
?
?
“The Winnipeg Elevator Co.,” Winnipeg Tribune, 7 January 1899, page 1.
“Notice,” Winnipeg Tribune, 7 April 1899, page 2.
“Important change in elevator co.,” Manitoba Free Press, 30 September 1907, page 11.
“Robert J. Howden, grain broker, dies in hospital,” Winnipeg Tribune, 12 August 1943, page 13.
We thank John C. Everitt, Butch Pearson, and Vic Mollot for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 27 February 2021