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Incorporated on 21 July 1897, the first directors of this Winnipeg-based grain firm were Daniel Hunter McMillan, William Wallace McMillan, Rodmond Palen Roblin, Robert Muir, Frederick Phillipps, Samuel Alexander McGaw, and Hugh Savigny Paterson. It built over 50 country grain elevators, mostly in Manitoba, but sold 19 of them to the Manitoba Elevator Commission in 1910. The rest of its assets were transferred to the Canadian Consolidated Grain Company in 1928 when it merged with several other companies.
Period
President / General Manager
1897-1900
Rodmond Palen Roblin (1853-1937)
1900-1908
Frederick “Fred” Phillipps (1857-1932)
1908-1917
William Wallace McMillan (1852-1928)
1917-1918
D. R. Mitchell
1918-1922
Harvey Kavaner (1886-1962)
1923-1928
Charles Edward “Charlie” Hayles (c1885-1952)
Period
Vice-President
1897-1908
William Wallace McMillan (1852-1928)
1908-1928
?
Period
Secretary
1897-1900
Samuel Alexander McGaw (1848-1916)
1900-1928
?
Location
No.
Rail
Opened
Closed
Capacity
(bushels)Comments
Altamont
c1895
1910
24,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (September 1910)
Arnaud
1897
22,000
Austin
1897
25,000
Bagot
1897
32,000
Baldur
1897
30,000
1898
1929
30,000
Sold to Forsythe Elevator (1929)
1921
30,000
Merged with Canadian Consolidated (1928)
Belmont
1898
25,000
Binscarth
1898
27,000
Brandon
1897
40,000
Broomhill
1926
30,000
Carman
35
1897
35,000
Dand
1918
30,000
Darlingford
1897
25,000
Dauphin
1896
1910
23,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (September 1910)
Deloraine
1897
25,000
Edwin
1921
30,000
Elkhorn
1897
10,000
Elva
1895
25,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Emerson
1897
30,000
Foxwarren
1898
30,000
Glenora
?
28,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Greenway
1901
15,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Gretna
1897
25,000
Hamiota
1898
25,000
Harrowby
1923
35,000
Hartney
1900
25,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Hilton
1901
30,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Homewood
1901
25,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Killarney
1897
25,000
Letellier
1907
24,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Makinak
1898
10,000
Mariapolis
1899
6,000
Melbourne
1898
20,000
Miami
1897
23,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Minnedosa
1898
10,000
Morden
1897
25,000
Napinka
1904
28,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Neepawa
1897
25,000
Nesbitt
1895
28,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Ninga
?
24,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Niverville
1901
20,000
Oakburn
1900
30,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Oak Lake
1897
25,000
Oak River
1898
30,000
Oakville
1897
20,000
Ochre River
1897
4,000
Ogilvie
1898
13,000
Pierson
1898
20,000
Plum Coulee
1897
25,000
Poplar Point
1898
9,000
Portage la Prairie
1897
30,000
Roland
1897
25,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Rosebank
1897
30,000
Rounthwaite
1898
22,000
St. Jean Baptiste
1899
30,000
Shoal Lake
1887
22,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Sidney
1898
20,000
Silver Plains
1899
15,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Solsgirth
1924
30,000
Sperling
1912
25,000
Steinbach
1899
20,000
Stockton
1895
22,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Stonewall
1897
6,000
Strathclair
1898
30,000
Treherne
1895
24,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
Virden
1897
40,000
Wassewa
1918
30,000
Wawanesa
1897
30,000
Westbourne
1898
8,000
Whitewater
1897
15,000
Winkler
1897
26,000
Review of negotiations that led to government ownership and operation of elevators in Manitoba and cause of failure by the Executive Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association, c1910.
“City briefs,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 March 1918, page 6.
“Sir Rodmond Roblin defendant in court,” Manitoba Free Press, 30 April 1924, page 11.
“Notice of application to surrender charter,” Winnipeg Tribune, 23 September 1929, page 15.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 September 2020