Manitoba Business: Young Grain Company

Established in 1887 by brothers Charles Alexander Young, Duncan Donald Young, Finlay McNaughton Young, and Frederick William Young, the company operated several country grain elevators in southwestern Manitoba. The firm was sold to the Paterson Grain Company in 1922.

Country Elevators

Location	Rail	Built	1917 Capacity (bushels)	Comments
Cameron	CPR	1902	30,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)
Cartwright	CPR	1888	30,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)
Crystal City	CPR	?	60,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)
Deloraine	CPR	?	15,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)
Dunrea	CNR	?	30,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)
Elgin	CNR	1898	30,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)
Enterprise	CNR	1904	30,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)
Killarney	CPR	?	30,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)
Lena	CNR	1904	30,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)
Minto	CNR	1898	30,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)
Mountainside	CNR	1914	25,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)
Wakopa	CNR	1904	30,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)
Waskada	CPR	?	20,000	Sold to Paterson (1922)

Sources:

“Chas. A. Young, retired grain broker, passes,” Winnipeg Tribune, 28 September 1928, page 7.

List of Grain Elevators, Warehouses, Flour, Feed and Oatmeal Mills, February 1917, Legislative Library of Manitoba, SB190 Lis.

Elevator Company Files [Temporary Box #1], Paterson Grain Company, John Everitt Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 28 July 2020