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.
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Country Elevators (Manitoba)
Location |
Rail |
Opened |
1936 Capacity (bushels) |
Comments |
Basswood |
CPR |
1933 |
30,000 |
Bought from Forsythe Grain (1933), sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Bryd |
CPR |
1925 |
25,000 |
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Carberry |
CPR |
1938 |
22,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948), re-sold to UGG (1948) |
Cracknell |
CPR |
1936 |
23,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Cranmer |
CPR |
1939 |
28,000 |
Sold to UGG (1948) |
Curtis |
CNR |
1938 |
30,000 |
Bought from Forsythe Elevator (1946), sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Forrest |
CPR |
1928 |
15,000 |
|
Glossop |
CPR |
? |
28,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
High Bluff |
CPR |
? |
? |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Inglis |
CPR |
? |
19,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Ipswich |
CPR |
1925 |
25,000 |
|
Kelloe |
CPR |
1925 |
25,000 |
|
Kirkella |
CPR |
1928 |
30,000 |
New elevator (1922), acquired from Matheson Lindsay Company (1928), sold to Canadian Consolidated Grain (?) |
Liege |
CNR |
1928 |
30,000 |
New elevator (1927), acquired from Matheson Lindsay Company (1928), sold to UGG (1932) |
Longburn |
CNR |
? |
30,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Macdonald |
CPR |
? |
45,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Newdale |
CPR |
? |
25,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Oakland |
CNR |
? |
30,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Poplar Point |
CPR |
? |
49,000 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Portage la Prairie |
CPR |
? |
? |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Ste. Anne |
CNR |
1928 |
10,000 |
|
Sidney |
CPR |
? |
? |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Shoal Lake |
CPR |
1925 |
25,000 |
|
Smith Spur |
CNR |
? |
? |
Bought from North Star (1939), sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Strathclair |
CPR |
? |
28,500 |
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1948) |
Varcoe |
CPR |
1928 |
10,000 |
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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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