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A 66,900-bushel grain elevator at Bield, on the CNR Togo Subdivision in what is now the Municipality of Roblin, was constructed by the Northern Elevator Company in 1919. Sold to a local association in 1927, and operated by Manitoba Pool Elevators, major renovations were carried out in 1954 and a new annex was built in 1968. The elevator closed in December 1975 and was torn down in mid-1978.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1926-1927
Donald McAdie
1927-1932
S. M. Currey
1932-1933
Sydney M. Finkbeiner
1933-1936
John McFadyen
1936-1942
F. B. Abigail
1942-1952
William Henry “Bill” Ruddock (1914-1985)
1952-1953
Lawrence A. Dietrich
1953-1959
James R. Butterfield
1959-1961
H. A. Thompson
1961-1963
Sam M. Stewart
1963-1966
T. B. Turner
1967-1975
Peter Kowalchuk
1975-1975
Robert J. Davidson
Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Bield (no date) by Earl Gordon Johnston
Source: Shelley Johnston-Frith
Manitoba Pool grain elevator and balloon annex at Bield (no date)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)Site Location (lat/long): N51.21992, W101.15278
denoted by symbol on the map above
“Bield locals,” Roblin Review, 2 September 1926, page 1.
“Bield locals,” Roblin Review, 26 July 1928, page 1.
Obituary [William Henry Ruddock], Winnipeg Free Press, 18 March 1985, page 36.
Roblin East topographic map, 62N/3 East, Edition 2, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
We thank Glenn Dickson amd Shelley Johnston-Frith for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 9 October 2022
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