Historic Sites of Manitoba: United Grain Growers Grain Elevator (Cardinal, Municipality of Lorne)

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Agents / Buyers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

A 32,000 wooden grain elevator at Cardinal, on the CNR Carman Subdivision in the Municipality of Lorne, was constructed in 1929 by United Grain Growers, replacing a smaller elevator at the site built in 1910 by the Manitoba Elevator Commission and sold to the company in 1926. Expanded with an annex in 1951, the complex was destroyed by fire on 26 June 1960. Believing that the railway line between Learys and Somerset would be abandoned in the near future (this did not occur until the mid-1970s), the company chose not to rebuild the elevator.

Agents / Buyers

Period	Agent / Buyer
1914-1922	Ephrem Louis
1922-1928	?
1928-1932	Ephrem Louis
1933-1936	Timothee Simon “Tim” Conrad (1907-1994)
1937-1943	Leonard Conrad (1914-1978)
1943-1949	?
1949-1955	Roland Payette
1956-1960	Maurice Benoit

Photos & Coordinates

Aerial view of the former United Grain Growers grain elevator at Cardinal (1948) Source: Manitoba Air Photo Library, A11573-81. Aerial view of grain elevator at Cardinal (1957) Source: Howdy McPhail Aerial Photographs, University of Saskatchewan Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.49540, W98.55690 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

United Grain Growers Fonds, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.

“Funeral service held for Timothee Simon Conrad,” Baldur Gazette-News, 18 January 1994, page 6.

We thank Eileen Kent for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Denis Sabourin (Denis Sabourin Geomatics).

Page revised: 8 June 2024

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