This Winnipeg-based company was founded in 1918 by J. R. Martin of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It operated no grain elevators until around 1921 when it purchased ones from Robert Boyd McClean (21 elevators), Leitch-McClean (17 elevators), Farmers Club (9 elevators), Kalmakoff and Korsekoff (1), Terminal Grain (1), Alberta Pacific (3), Stewart (2), Huxley (2), and North West Commission (1 elevator). It also built about 26 new elevators, bringing its total assets to 83-84 elevators.
The company also sold grain elevators to the Alberta Wheat Pool (6), Saskatchewan Wheat Pool (6), Stewart (3), Bawlf Grain (1), Pioneer Grain (1), and Pocock (1).
The company, by 1928 controlled by John Charles Gage and Henry Eugene “Harry” Sellers, merged its 55 remaining elevators into Federal Grain.
Location
Rail
Capacity
(bushels)Built
Comments
30,000
1919
Built by White Star Elevator (1919), sold to North West Commission (1921), sold to Brooks Elevator (1923), merged into Federal Grain (1929), sold to Manitoba Pool (1972), closed (1975), demolished (?)
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Robert Boyd McClean (1882-1940)
Memorable Manitobans: John Charles Gage (1876-1930)
Memorable Manitobans: Henry Eugene “Harry” Sellers (1886-1970)
Manitoba Business: Federal Grain Limited
This page was prepared by John Everitt and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 3 January 2024
