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A 76,500-bushel wooden grain elevator at Kenton, on the CPR Lenore Subdivision in what is now the RM of Wallace-Woodworth, was built in 1968 by Manitoba Pool Elevators on the site of a 25,000-bushel elevator dating from the early 20th century that had been owned successively by the Manitoba Elevator Commission (<1911-1912), Grain Growers Grain Company (1912-1917), United Grain Growers (1917-1958), Lake of the Woods Milling (1958-1959), and Manitoba Pool Elevators (1959-1967).
The new elevator was designed Pool C to distinguish it from Pool A to the west and Pool B to the east, all operated by the same agent. In 1977, the two older elevators were demolished and, on 18 July 1980, this elevator was closed due to abandonment of its rail line. Used for a time as a grain cleaning plant by local farmers, in 1987 the elevator was moved beside a concrete elevator at Quadra but has since been demolished.
Period
Agent / Buyer
Before 1968
1968-1972
George A. Perrin
1972-1979
Ernest Cecil Wedgewood (1918-1998)
1979-1980
Wayne Brugger
Aerial view of the grain elevators at Kenton (1957)
Source: Howdy McPhail Aerial Photographs, University of Saskatchewan Library, MG402, Town Series 4, Box 7, 318a
The Manitoba Pool C grain elevator at Kenton under construction (1968) by Earl Gordon Johnston
Source: Shelley Johnston-Frith
The newly constructed Manitoba Pool C grain elevator at Kenton (July 1968) by Earl Gordon Johnston
Source: Shelley Johnston-Frith
The former Manitoba Pool C elevator from Kenton beside the Quadra concrete elevator (April 2002)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.98811, W100.61614
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator / Private Grain Elevator (Quadra, Municipality of Prairie View)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator A (Kenton, RM of Wallace-Woodworth)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Lake of the Woods Grain Elevator / Ogilvie Grain Elevator / Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator B (Kenton, RM of Wallace-Woodworth)
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
Cradle to Combine, Volume 2: Kenton, 1881-1981 by Kenton Historical Book Club, 1981, pages 97-100, 274.
We thank Shelley Johnston-Frith for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 April 2026
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