Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Leighton, Municipality of Brenda-Waskada)
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Agents / Buyers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources
A wooden grain elevator at the railway siding of Leighton, on the CPR Napinka Subdivision in what is now the Municipality of Brenda-Waskada, was built by United Grain Growers and sold in 1928 to Manitoba Pool Elevators. Closed in July 1971, the elevator was demolished.
Agents / Buyers
Period
Agent / Buyer
1928-1931
G. M. Hall
1932-1934
R. McAlinden
1935-1940
J. M. Moore
1940-1941
R. Tollifson
1941-1946
S. C. Strutt
1946-1948
George R. Suggitt
1948-1949
W. H. Shortridge
1949-1960
K. D. Maxwell
1960-1967
William Adams
1967-1971
F. W. Adams
Photos & Coordinates
Aerial view of the Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Leighton (1967)
Source: Manitoba Air Photo Library, A19907-21Site Location (lat/long): N49.21942, W100.60022
denoted by symbol on the map above
Sources:
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
Waskada East topographic map, 62F/02 East, Edition 1, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].
Bridging Brenda, Volume 1 by Brenda History Committee, 1990, page 140.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Denis Sabourin (Denis Sabourin Geomatics)
Page revised: 23 December 2020
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