In 1902, this Winnipeg-based firm was established by Howard Douglas McLaughlin, Walter S. McLaughlin, and Allan Boyd Ellis.
MacLaughlin-Ellis was a small to medium-sized company with a high of 14 elevators (Anderson) in 1911-1912. At one point it had six elevators in Manitoba (five were in Alexander, Beresford, Cartwright, Cypress River, and Darlingford) and the company had owned at least one more Manitoba elevators in its earlier years, as it sold a 1902 ‘house’ in Hargrave to the Manitoba Elevator Commission in 1910. In 1911-1912, only Alexander and Darlingford remained with McLaughlin-Ellis as Manitoba elevators. This apparent movement to Saskatchewan elevator ownership was also true of other companies as the centre of the grain trade moved westwards.
After 1912, the elevator inventory owned by McLaughlin-Ellis was stable. Darlingford was sold to Sam Scott, and Hershel (Saskatchewan) to either Saskatchewn Cooperative Elevator or Canadian in 1912, but the other twelve, all but Alexander being in Saskatchewan, were kept until they were sold in 1916 (Anderson) to the Interior Elevator Company (later Paterson Grain). The eleven Saskatchewan elevators were in Adair, Grenfell, Hume, Indian Head, Kaiser, Sintaluta, Stoughton, Summerberry, Whitewood, Windthorst, and Wolseley.
Location
Rail
Built
Capacity
(bushels)Comments
c1904
30,000
New elevator (1908), sold to Paterson Grain (1916)
Beresford
c1904
30,000
Cartwright
c1904
25,000
Cypress River
c1904
35,000
Darlingford
c1912
25,000
Hargrave
1902
25,000
Sold to Manitoba Elevator Commission (1910)
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Howard Douglas McLaughlin (1878-1949)
Memorable Manitobans: Allan Boyd Ellis (1863-1947)
Manitoba Business: McLaughlin Elevator Company
“McLaughlin & Ellis,” Manitoba Free Press, 3 November 1902, page 15.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
This page was prepared by John Everitt and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 20 May 2024
