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A 30,000-bushel wooden grain elevator at Arborg, on the CPR Arborg Subdivision, was built in 1940 by Manitoba Pool Elevators, the company’s first elevator at this site. Eight years later, when a second Pool elevator was constructed, it became known as Pool B and the younger elevator became Pool A. Closed in 1994, it was demolished in March 2002.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1940-1944
D. A. Stevenson
1944-1946
J. R. Wilkinson
1946-1948
M. Antonation
1948-1950
Irving A. Joel
1950-1951
?
1951-1956
Paul Batryn
1956-1962
Thomas Gordon Pickering (1919-1997)
1962-1966
Frank L. Johnson
1966-1967
R. F. Page
1967-1978
Frank L. Johnson
1978-1994
Lorne Boychuk
Aerial view of grain elevators at Arborg, from left to right, Paterson, Pool A and Pool B (1987)
Source: Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archive, Brandon University
Manitoba Pool grain elevator B at Arborg (1999)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
Manitoba Pool grain elevator B at Arborg (January 2001)
Source: Mike LisowskiSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.91135, W97.21748
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator A (Main Street, Arborg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Liberty Grain Elevator / Searle Grain Elevator / Federal Grain Elevator / Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator C (Main Street, Arborg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator D (Arborg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Paterson Grain Elevator (Main Street, Arborg)
Obituary [Thomas Gordon Pickering], Winnipeg Free Press, 14 April 1997, page 14.
“End of an era,” Interlake Spectator, 18 March 2002, page 3.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 July 2020
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