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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Province Grain Elevator / United Grain Growers Grain Elevator (Cranmer, Municipality of Brenda-Waskada)Link to: A wooden grain elevator at the railway siding of Cranmer, on the CPR Lyleton Subdivision in what is now the Municipality of Brenda-Waskada, was built to replace an earlier one that collapsed suddenly on 29 September 1928. (It was deserted by its rats a few hours before the disaster.) The new elevator opened for business in 1929 and was expanded with a crib annex in 1953. A second elevator at Cranmer was built in 1927 by the Matheson-Lindsay Elevator Company and owned by the Province Elevator Company (1928) before being purchased by UGG in 1948. Both closed in December 1975 and were demolished. Agents / Buyers
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Sources:“Elevator at Cranmer, Man. is deserted by rats few hours before it crashes,” Manitoba Free Press, 1 October 1928, page 1. United Grain Growers Fonds, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 15 July 2020
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