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Manitoba Business: Province Elevator Company / Reliance Grain Company
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Originally a subsidiary of the Peavey Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota, its origins in Manitoba date to 1903 when Gabriel B. Murphy established the grain-handling firm of G. B. Murphy & Company. After acquiring several smaller grain-buying operations, the company was renamed the Province Elevator Company Limited. By 1922 this company owned 48 country elevators.
In 1923, it purchased the Reliance Grain Company, a subsidiary of Peavey Company of Minneapolis, and later the Matheson Lindsay Grain Company (1928) and North Star Grain Company (1939). The Reliance Grain Company eventually owned 254 elevators, two of which form part of the Inglis row of elevators. In 1948, elevators of the Reliance line in Manitoba were sold to various grain companies, including the Manitoba Pool Elevators, Pioneer Grain Company, and United Grain Growers.
Presidents
Period
President
1923-1947
Sidney Thomas Smith (1878-1947)
1947
William Arthur Murphy (1884-1968)
Vice-Presidents
Period
Vice-President
1912-?
Loy M. Pugh (1879-?)
Country Elevators (Manitoba)
Location
Rail
Opened
1936
Capacity
(bushels)Comments
Basswood
1933
30,000
Bought from Forsythe Grain (1933), sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
Bryd
1925
25,000
Carberry
1938
22,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948), re-sold to UGG (1948)
1936
23,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
1939
28,000
Sold to UGG (1948)
1938
30,000
Bought from Forsythe Elevator (1946), sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
Forrest
1928
15,000
?
28,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
High Bluff
?
?
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
?
19,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
Ipswich
1925
25,000
Kelloe
1925
25,000
1928
30,000
New elevator (1922), acquired from Matheson Lindsay Company (1928), sold to Canadian Consolidated Grain (?)
CNR
1928
30,000
New elevator (1927), acquired from Matheson Lindsay Company (1928), sold to UGG (1932)
Longburn
?
30,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
Macdonald
?
45,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
Newdale
?
25,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
Oakland
?
30,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
Poplar Point
?
49,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
?
?
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
Ste. Anne
CNR
1928
10,000
?
?
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
Shoal Lake
1925
25,000
?
?
Bought from North Star (1939), sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
?
28,500
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948)
Varcoe
1928
10,000
Sources:
“$3,750,000 grain elevator sale reported,” Winnipeg Tribune, 31 January 1948, page 1.
“Province and Reliance - The Smith and Murphy Companies,” Chapter 12 in Grain: The Entrepreneurs by Charles W. Anderson, Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer Publishing, 1991.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 October 2021
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