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Agents / Buyers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources
A 40,000-bushel elevator at Lena, on the CNR Wakopa Subdivision in what is now the Municipality of Killarney-Turtle Mountain, was built in 1928 by Manitoba Pool Elevators for the Lena Co-operative Elevator Association. A new crib annex built in 1956 increased its capacity to 120,000 bushels. The rail line between Deloraine and Neelin was abandoned in 1961, forcing the elevator to close. It was full of grain and remained on the company's inventory until 1965. When it was eventually emptied, the annex was moved to Killarney. Sold into private ownership, the elevator remains in use.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1928-1960
Robert Francis “Frank” Earley (1894-1976)
1960-1961
Ross G. Ferguson
Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Lena with Paterson in front of it (1960s)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Lena Photographs.
Manitoba Pool grain annex at Lena being moved to Killarney (no date) by Earl Gordon Johnston
Source: Shelley Johnston-Frith
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Lena (August 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 2146
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Lena (August 2014)
Source: Jean McManus
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Lena (August 2016)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Lena (August 2016)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Aerial view of the former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Lena (August 2020)
Source: George Penner
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Lena (July 2022)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.07237, W99.66547
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Paterson Grain Elevator (Lena, Municipality of Killarney-Turtle Mountain)
A History of Grain Elevators in Manitoba by John Everitt, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, circa 1993.
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Charlie Baldock, Jean McManus, George Penner, and Shelley Johnston-Frith for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 October 2022
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