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A wooden grain elevator at the railway siding of Culross, on the CPR Glenboro Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Grey, is one of three operated by the Paterson Grain Company that stood at the site in 1989. The western-most elevator, purchased from United Grain Growers, was demolished later that year. An elevator to the east of it, built by Paterson in 1920, was demolished in July 2003. This left the eastern-most elevator that was moved here as an annex from nearby Elm Creek in February 1989 (the remaining Paterson elevator at Elm Creek was demolished in 1994), and remodeled into an elevator at a cost of $650,000. It re-opened officially on 4 October 1989 at a ceremony attended by company representatives Donald S. Paterson and Andrew B. Paterson, Finance Minister Clayton Manness, and RM of Grey Reeve Marcel Painchaud.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1920-1923
R. H. Wood
1924-1925
Carl Wood
1926-1935
William McKee Jr.
1936-1946
Peter A. Daoust
1946-1960
R. Bruce Johnston
1960-1961
Larry Van Cauwenberghe
1961-1964
R. Bert Banman
1964-1995
Andrew Henry Watson
1995-2000
Rudy Lepp
2000-2008
Alvin Martens
2008-2013
Rudy Lepp
2013-?
Dave Badlo
The former UGG grain elevator at Culross, left, after its sale to Paterson Grain (October 1975) by Bob Clarke
Source: Pearl Watson
Three Paterson grain elevators at Culross (October 1989)
Source: Pearl Watson
Paterson grain elevators at Culross (July 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 2278.
Paterson grain elevators at Culross (July 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 2277.
Paterson grain elevators at Culross (1999)
Source: George Penner
The sole remaining Paterson grain elevator at Culross, moved here from Elm Creek in February 1989 (July 2014)
Source: Jean McManus
The sole remaining Paterson grain elevator at Culross, moved here from Elm Creek in February 1989 (September 2016)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Aerial view of the Paterson grain elevator at Culross (July 2020)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.71499, W97.90835
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Canadian Consolidated Grain Elevator / United Grain Growers Grain Elevator (Culross, RM of Grey)
“Elevator builders signed their work, played tic-tac-toe,” Carman Times, 18 July 1994.
We thank Dave Badlo, Pearl and Andy Watson, Jean McManus, and George Penner for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 17 July 2022
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