In 1951, United Grain Growers constructed a 35,000-bushel wooden grain elevator at the Cawdor siding on the CNR Oakland Subdivision, in what is now the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone. Grain volumes shipped from the elevator did not meet the company’s expectations so, in 1964, it was moved to Westbourne, the first time that a UGG elevator was moved intact rather than being demolished and rebuilt.
United Grain Growers elevator being moved from Cawdor to Westbourne (1964)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)Site Location (lat/long): N50.15108, W98.56198
denoted by symbol on the map above
Canadian National Railways Map, Cawdor, 1952.
United Grain Growers Fonds, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 October 2017
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