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Manitoba Business: Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society
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Managers | Country Elevators | Sources
In August 1906, an office of this Scottish organization was opened at Winnipeg with the arrival of George Fisher as its Western Canadian Manager. The firm established a network of country grain elevators throughout Manitoba, intended to purchase grain for delivery to its flour mills in Scotland. In 1949, the firm (later renamed Scottish Co-operative Society Limited) sold its grain elevators in Saskatchewan and, in February 1973, the remaining nine Manitoba elevators were sold to Manitoba Pool Elevators. The ones in western Manitoba, at Colby, Gregg, and Oakner, continued to operate as part of the Pool network while six elevators in eastern Manitoba were integrated with existing Pool facilities in that region.
Managers
Period
Manager
1906-1922
George Fisher (1862-1922)
1922-1946
John Brackenridge Fisher (1894-1946)
1946-1951
James Thomson Prosser (?-1958)
1951-1967
Ross Grant Wright (1902-1992)
1967-1973
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Country Elevators (Manitoba)
Location
Rail
Built
Capacity
(bushels)Comments
1938
27,000
Sold to Paterson Grain (1967), moved to Dacotah (1971)
1949
28,000
Closed (1972)
1949
28,000
New annex (1952-1953), sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)
1937
27,000
Closed (1972)
1912
28,000
New elevator (1931), new annexes (1953, 1955), sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)
Harte
1912
30,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)
1936
30,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)
Justice
1912
30,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)
Libau
1935
27,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)
1912
26,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)
1935
27,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)
1946
28,000
Sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)
Sources:
“To study grain situation here,” Winnipeg Tribune, 27 September 1905, page 1.
“Royal grain commission,” Winnipeg Tribune, 24 January 1907, page 4.
“Prosser named co-op manager,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 March 1946, page 5.
MPE History, File 2, RG 4, Manitoba Pool Elevators fonds, Series B, Central Office Records, B.16, Historical Records, Box 1: 1925-1996, S. J. McKee Archives.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 July 2022
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