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A wooden grain elevator at the railway siding of Cranmer, on the CPR Lyleton Subdivision in what is now the Municipality of Brenda-Waskada, was built to replace an earlier one that collapsed suddenly on 29 September 1928. (It was deserted by its rats a few hours before the disaster.) The new elevator opened for business in 1929 and was expanded with a crib annex in 1953. A second elevator at Cranmer was built in 1927 by the Matheson-Lindsay Elevator Company and owned by the Province Elevator Company (1928) before being purchased by United Grain Growers in 1948. Both elevators were closed in December 1975 and were demolished.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1917-1918
C. R. Foley
1918-1919
A. C. Bird
1919-1920
A. Johnson
1920-1922
H. Barnes
1922-1923
F. A. Trueman
1923-1924
G. A. Brown
1924-1926
W. D. Pritchard
1926-1931
G. E. Stewart
1931-1932
Closed
1932-1934
John Mason Hedley (1893-1970)
1934-1935
Closed
1935-1941
J. O. Coates
1941-1944
Oscar Gerlock (1911-1993)
1944-1945
H. T. Hoyden
1945-1956
A. D. McLeod
1956-1959
J. R. Miller
1959-1965
A. Joe Steadman
1965-1967
E. M. Shackel
1967
H. Minshall
1967-1970
Norman Bruce
1970-1973
J. E. Freeman
1973-1975
Don K. Freeman
United Grain Growers grain elevators at Cranmer (1971)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)Site Location (lat/long): N49.09511, W100.69091
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“Elevator at Cranmer, Man. is deserted by rats few hours before it crashes,” Manitoba Free Press, 1 October 1928, page 1.
United Grain Growers Fonds, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 October 2023
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