Manitoba Business: Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society

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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 (1886-1958)

1951-1967

Ross Grant Wright (1902-1992)

1967-1973

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Country Elevators (Manitoba)

Location

Rail

Built

Capacity
(bushels)

Comments

Cabot

CNR

1938

27,000

Sold to Paterson Grain (1967), moved to Dacotah (1971)

Cloverleaf

CPR

1949

28,000

Closed (1972)

Colby

CNR

1949

28,000

New annex (1952-1953), sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)

Elie

GTP

1912

30,000

 

Glass

CNR

1937

27,000

Closed (1973)

Gregg

CNR

1912

28,000

New elevator (1931), new annexes (1953, 1955), sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)

Harte

CNR

1912

30,000

 

Hazelridge

CPR

1936

30,000

Sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)

Justice

CNR

1912

30,000

 

Libau

CNR

1935

27,000

Sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)

Oakner

CNR

1912

26,000

Sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)

Quadra

GTP

1912

30,000

 

St. Ouens

CPR

1935

27,000

Sold to Manitoba Pool (1973)

Stead

CNR

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.

“9 country elevators purchased,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 February 1973, page 82.

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: 24 May 2024