Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Erickson, Municipality of Clanwilliam-Erickson)

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Agents / Buyers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

A 40,000-bushel elevator at Erickson, on the CNR Rossburn Subdivision in what is now the Municipality of Clanwilliam-Erickson, was built by the Manitoba Pool Elevators in December 1933, replacing one destroyed by fire the previous month. It sported “No. 7” on its side in recognition of being the seventh cooperative elevator association formed in Manitoba, in 1923. By 1966, crib annexes on each side of it (one built in 1953, the other in 1965) had increased the total capacity to 157,000 bushels. A complete renovation in 1971 saw the installation of a new scale, dust equipment, and a new office. A building to handle sales of farm supplies and fertilizer was built around 1967. Closed in January 1995, the elevator has since been removed from the site.

Agents / Buyers

Period	Agent / Buyer
1926	Peter O. Lee
1926-1943	Ernest Forsberg
1943-1948	Percy Warrington
1948-1949	H. Clarence Johnson
1949-1950	Duncan E. Kennedy
1950-1965	H. Clarence Johnson
1965-1974	Adam Proudfoot Wright (1909-2006)
1974-1982	A. Maurice Hogeland
1982-1992	Byron Douglas Mason
1992-1993	?
1993-1994	Don Hunt

Photos & Coordinates

Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Erickson (no date) Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections) Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Erickson (no date) Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections) Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.49917, W99.91717 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Federal Grain Elevator (Erickson, Municipality of Clanwilliam-Erickson)

Sources:

Obituary [Adam Proudfoot Wright], Shoal Lake Crossroads, 11 November 2006, page 25.

Digital orthophotographs, Manitoba Land Initiative, Government of Manitoba.

Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Glen Dickson.

Page revised: 15 January 2022

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