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Manitoba Business: Manitoba Elevator Commission
In 1910, the Manitoba government established the Manitoba Elevator Commission.
Country Elevators (1912)
Location
Rail
Capacity
(bushels)Built
Comments
Altamont
30,000
?
Beaver
?
Binscarth 1
27,100
?
Binscarth 2
22,000
?
Binscarth 3
32,000
?
Binscarth 4
27,600
?
Birdtail
27,000
?
Brookdale
30,300
?
Brunkild
29,000
?
Cardinal
27,000
?
Carman 1
27,000
?
Carman 2
32,000
?
Chillon
27,000
?
Cordova
27,000
?
Crystal City 1
40,000
?
Crystal City 2
22,500
?
Crystal City 3
27,000
?
Crystal City 4
14,000
?
Dauphin 1
22,500
?
Dauphin 2
20,600
?
Deepdale
27,000
?
Dominion City
20,000
?
Dufresne
45,000
?
Dunrea 1
29,500
?
Dunrea 2
22,000
?
Eden
19,600
?
Elkhorn
21,600
?
Elliott Siding
21,000
?
Elva 1
35,000
?
Elva 2
22,300
?
Elva 3
16,000
?
Fairview
30,000
?
Gilbert Plains 1
37,500
?
Gilbert Plains 2
45,000
?
Glenora
22,700
?
Grandview 1
35,000
?
Grandview 2
20,000
?
Grandview 3
24,300
?
Graysville 1
24,900
?
Graysville 2
22,500
?
Greenway 1
16,000
?
Greenway 2
33,000
?
Gretna
20,000
?
Griswold 1
28,000
?
Griswold 2
23,500
?
Grosse Isle
25,000
?
Hallboro
21,100
?
Hamiota 1
41,000
?
Hamiota 2
31,000
?
Hamiota 3
20,000
?
Hargrave 1
29,000
?
Hargrave 2
25,000
?
Hargrave 3
19,600
?
Hartney 1
29,000
?
Hartney 2
23,000
?
Hilton 1
25,800
?
Hilton 2
25,000
?
Holmfield
32,000
?
Homewood 1
35,000
?
Homewood 2
25,000
?
Jordan
25,000
?
Kelloe
21,200
?
Kelwood
30,000
?
Kenton 1
25,000
?
Kenton 2
20,700
?
La Riviere 1
30,000
?
La Riviere 2
28,000
?
Lauder 1
46,000
?
Lauder 2
25,000
?
Lenore 1
30,000
?
Lenore 2
27,000
?
Lenore 3
19,400
?
Letellier 1
24,000
?
Letellier 2
17,800
?
Lyleton
47,200
?
Manitou
35,000
?
Manson
24,000
?
Bought from McLaughlin Elevator (1910)
Margaret 1
21,400
?
Margaret 2
18,000
?
Mariapolis
24,500
?
Mather 1
27,000
?
Mather 2
25,300
?
Mather 3
25,000
?
McAuley 1
21,200
?
McAuley 2
19,400
?
Medora 1
27,000
?
Medora 2
26,500
?
Miami 1
32,000
?
Miami 2
30,000
?
Miniota 1
30,000
?
Miniota 2
14,300
?
Minitonas
18,000
?
Mowbray 1
30,000
?
Mowbray 2
30,000
?
Myrtle 1
22,000
?
Myrtle 2
15,000
?
Napinka 1
28,000
?
Napinka 2
27,500
?
Napinka 3
17,000
?
Nesbitt 1
28,000
?
Nesbitt 2
22,700
?
Newdale
27,600
?
Newton Siding
27,000
?
Ninga 1
24,000
?
Ninga 2
27,000
?
Ninga 3
19,800
?
Ninga 4
16,000
?
Oakburn
24,500
?
Oakville
15,000
?
Ochre River
12,700
?
Pipestone 1
30,000
?
Pipestone 2
27,600
?
Pipestone 3
25,000
?
Pleasant Point
18,000
?
Plumas
15,200
?
Rathwell 1
23,800
?
Rathwell 2
12,400
?
Rea
GTP
25,800
?
Reston 1
27,600
?
Reston 2
26,000
?
Reston 3
16,000
?
Ridgeville 1
30,800
?
Ridgeville 2
25,000
?
Riding Mountain
27,000
?
Rivers
GTP
26,200
?
Bought from Security Elevator (1910)
Roland 1
42,600
?
Roland 2
19,400
?
Rufford
27,000
?
Sanford
29,700
?
Shoal Lake 1
90,000
?
Shoal Lake 2
25,800
?
Shoal Lake 3
25,000
?
Shoal Lake 4
23,800
?
Shoal Lake 5
26,000
?
Silver Plains
14,000
?
Sinclair
24,800
?
Snowflake 1
30,000
?
Snowflake 2
30,000
?
Snowflake 3
19,300
?
Snowflake 4
30,000
?
Solsgirth
16,200
?
Somerset
16,000
?
Souris
26,000
?
St. Claude
21,000
?
Ste. Rose du Lac
25,000
?
Stephenfield
28,000
?
Stockton 1
25,000
?
Stockton 2
17,200
?
Strathclair 1
30,000
?
Strathclair 2
27,600
?
Strathclair 3
26,100
?
Strathclair 4
23,000
?
Swan Lake 1
25,000
?
Swan Lake 2
33,000
?
Swan Lake 3
18,800
?
Treherne 1
64,000
?
Treherne 2
19,900
?
Treherne 3
24,000
?
Underhill 1
53,800
?
Underhill 2
30,000
?
Underhill 3
25,000
?
Valley River
23,100
?
Virden 1
34,000
?
Virden 2
30,000
?
Virden 3
40,000
?
Wellwood 1
20,400
?
Wellwood 2
14,300
?
Wheatland
25,000
?
See also:
A “Tragic Muddle” and a “Cooperative Success”: an Account of Two Elevator Experiments in Manitoba, 1906-1928 by John Everitt
Manitoba History, Number 18, Autumn 1989
Sources:
“Buying elevators,” Winnipeg Tribune, 15 September 1910, page 10.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 August 2023
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